"One-fifth of the students at the school are taking a science class this semester." • "A quarter of the students at the school are majoring in English." • "Three hundred of the 6,000 students at the school are English majors taking science classes." For a follow-up story, a reporter plans to visit a science class and select a student at random in the class to interview. Is there enough information from the original story to find the probability that i selected student in the science class is an English major? If so, find the probability and show your reasoning. If not, what additional information from the original report would help to find the probability?

"One-fifth of the students at the school are taking a science class this semester." • "A quarter of the students at the school are majoring in English." • "Three hundred of the 6,000 students at the school are English majors taking science classes." For a follow-up story, a reporter plans to visit a science class and select a student at random in the class to interview. Is there enough information from the original story to find the probability that i selected student in the science class is an English major? If so, find the probability and show your reasoning. If not, what additional information from the original report would help to find the probability?

College Algebra

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337282291

Author:Ron Larson

Publisher:Ron Larson

Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability

Section8.7: Probability

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