Back to 3.3 Two Basic Rules of Probability

3.3 Exercise 20

Avg difficulty 2.5

A school has 200 seniors of whom 140 will be going to college next year. Forty will be going directly to work. The remainder are taking a gap year. Fifty of the seniors going to college are on their school's sports teams. Thirty of the seniors going directly to work are on their school's sports teams. Five of the seniors taking a gap year are on their school's sports teams. What is the probability that a senior is going to college and plays sports?

OpenStax Statistics, 3.3 Two Basic Rules of Probability, exercise 20

AI Tutor

Adapted from Statistics © 2022 Rice University. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Statistics. Imported at revision 7dea80a.