Given the following two-way classification table for a survey of data regarding the number of students that used the course textbook or did not use the course textbook for different courses among college students:    Used the Course Textbook   Did Not Use the Course Textbook   Math Course  25 35   Sociology Course 43 18   If we were to randomly select one of the college students from this survey, what is the probability that the college student selected will have taken a Math Course? Compute your solution as a decimal and round your final solution to four decimal places.

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Given the following two-way classification table for a survey of data regarding the number of students that used the course textbook or did not use the course textbook for different courses among college students:

   Used the Course Textbook   Did Not Use the Course Textbook
  Math Course  25 35
  Sociology Course 43 18

 

If we were to randomly select one of the college students from this survey, what is the probability that the college student selected will have taken a Math Course?

Compute your solution as a decimal and round your final solution to four decimal places.

 

P(Math Course) = ___________

 

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