Choose a student in grades 9 to 12 at random and ask if he or she is studying a language other than English. Here is the distribution of the students: Language Spanish French German All Others None Probability 0.21 0.1 0.04 0.04 0.61 (a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is, in fact, studying a language other than English? ANSWER (b) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is studying French, German, or Spanish? ANSWER (c) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is studying a language besides English, but not German? ANSWER
Choose a student in grades 9 to 12 at random and ask if he or she is studying a language other than English. Here is the distribution of the students: Language Spanish French German All Others None Probability 0.21 0.1 0.04 0.04 0.61 (a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is, in fact, studying a language other than English? ANSWER (b) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is studying French, German, or Spanish? ANSWER (c) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is studying a language besides English, but not German? ANSWER
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Chapter12: Probability
Section12.3: Conditional Probability; Independent Events; Bayes' Theorem
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Choose a student in grades 9 to 12 at random and ask if he or she is studying a language other than English. Here is the distribution of the students:
Language | Spanish | French | German | All Others | None |
0.21 | 0.1 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.61 |
(a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is, in fact, studying a language other than English?
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(b) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is studying French, German, or Spanish?
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(c) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is studying a language besides English, but not German?
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