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9. DRINKING AND DRIVING If one of the high school drivers is randomly selected, find the probability of getting one who drove when drinking alcohol.
9. DRINKING AND DRIVING If one of the high school drivers is randomly selected, find the probability of getting one who drove when drinking alcohol.
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A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
10th Edition
ISBN:
9780134753119
Author: Sheldon Ross
Publisher:
PEARSON
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1 Combinatorial Analysis
2 Axioms Of Probability
3 Conditional Probability And Independence
4 Random Variables
5 Continuous Random Variables
6 Jointly Distributed Random Variables
7 Properties Of Expectation
8 Limit Theorems
9 Additional Topics In Probability
10 Simulation
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Texted While Driving No Texting While Driving Drove When Drinking Alcohol? Yes 731 156 No 3054 4564 9. DRINKING AND DRIVING If one of the high school drivers is randomly selected, find the probability of getting one who drove when drinking alcohol.
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From given data we have :
Yes
No
Total
Text while driving
731
3054
3785
No text while driving
156
4564
4720
Total
887
7618
8505
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