Giving a test to a group of students, the grades and ages are summarized below A B CTotalUnder 25419204325 or over1116532Total 15 35 2575If one student is chosen at random,Find the probability that the student was under 25 OR got an "B".

Respuesta :

Let the event that the students were under 25 be A and the event that the student got a "B" be B.

[tex]P(A\cup B)=P(A)+P(B)-P(A\cap B)[/tex]

Using the tables, we can find that:

[tex]\begin{gathered} P(A)=\frac{43}{75} \\ P(B)=\frac{35}{75} \\ P(A\cap B)=\frac{19}{75} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Therefore,

[tex]P(A\cup B)=\frac{43}{75}+\frac{35}{75}-\frac{19}{75}=\frac{43+35-19}{75}[/tex]

Thus,

[tex]P(A\cup B)=\frac{59}{75}[/tex]

Therefore, the probability that the student was under 25 OR got an "B" is 59/75.

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