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13.7 Exercise 74

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use this data for the exercises that follow: In 2013, there were roughly 317 million citizens in the United States, and about 40 million were elderly (aged 65 and over).United States Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov

If you meet five U.S. citizens, what is the percent chance that four are elderly? (Round to the nearest thousandth of a percent.)

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 13.7 Probability, exercise 74

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