17. Selecting a Card A card is selected at random from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of each event.
c. Randomly selecting a 9 or a face card
17. Selecting a Card A card is selected at random from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of each event.
c. Randomly selecting a 9 or a face card
18. Rolling a Die You roll a die. Find the probability of each event.
b. Rolling a 2 or an odd number
Mental Health A survey asks 4805 parents the severity of the mental issues they experienced from the coronavirus pandemic. The results are shown in the table. A parent is randomly selected from the sample. Find the probability of each event. (Adapted from Kaiser Family Foundation)
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c. The parent did not have major mental health issues or is a mother.
25. Working from Home The table shows the results of a survey that asked 1811 people how often they work from home. A person is selected at random from the sample. Find the probability of each event.
b. The person is female or does not work from home.
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26. Eye Survey The table shows the results of a survey that asked 3203 people whether they wore contacts or glasses. A person is selected at random from the sample. Find the probability of each event.
a. The person wears only contacts or only glasses.
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26. Eye Survey The table shows the results of a survey that asked 3203 people whether they wore contacts or glasses. A person is selected at random from the sample. Find the probability of each event.
d. The person is male or does not wear glasses.
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29. Explain, in your own words, why in the Addition Rule for P(A or B or C), P(A and B and C) is added at the end of the formula.
In Exercises 25 and 26, determine whether the events are mutually exclusive. Explain your reasoning.
25. Event A: Randomly select a red jelly bean from a jar.
Event B: Randomly select a yellow jelly bean from the jar.
28. A sample of 6500 automobiles found that 1560 of the automobiles were black, 3120 of the automobiles were sedans, and 1170 of the automobiles were black sedans. Find the probability that a randomly chosen automobile from this sample is black or a sedan.
In Exercises 29-32, find the probability.
31. A 12-sided die, numbered 1 to 12, is rolled. Find the probability that the roll results in an odd number or a number less than 4.
In Exercises 33 and 34, use the pie chart at the left, which shows the percent distribution of the number of students in U.S. public schools in a recent year. (Source: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics)
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34. Find the probability of randomly selecting a school with 300 or more students.
39. You are given that P(A) = 0.15 and P(B) = 0.40. Do you have enough information to find P(A or B)? Explain.
U.S. Age Distribution The projected percent distribution of the U.S. population for 2025 is shown in the pie chart. Find the probability of each event. (Source: U.S. Census
Bureau)
a. Randomly selecting someone who is under 10 years old
Politics The responses of 1500 U.S. adults to a survey that asked them to state their own political viewpoints are shown in the Pareto chart. Find the probability of each event.(Adapted from YouGov)
b. Randomly selecting a person from the sample who is conservative or very conservative
Politics The responses of 1500 U.S. adults to a survey that asked them to state their own political viewpoints are shown in the Pareto chart. Find the probability of each event.(Adapted from YouGov)
d. Randomly selecting a person from the sample who is either unsure or moderate