Chapter 5: Q 46. (page 309)
Languages in Canada Canada has two official languages, English and French. Choose a Canadian at random and ask, 鈥淲hat is your mother tongue?鈥
Here is the distribution of responses, combining many separate languages from the broad Asia/Pacific region:Language: English French Asian/Pacific Other Probability: ?
(a) What probability should replace 鈥?鈥 in the distribution? Why?
(b) What is the probability that a Canadian鈥檚 mother tongue is not English?
(c) What is the probability that a Canadian鈥檚 mother tongue is a language other than English or French?
Short Answer
Part (a) The probability of other
Part (b) The probability of not English=
Part (c) The probability is



