Chapter 5: Q. 36 (page 326)
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
a. Explain why this is a valid probability model.
b. What is the probability that the chosen person鈥檚 mother tongue is not English?
c. What is the probability that the chosen person鈥檚 mother tongue is one of Canada鈥檚 official languages?

Short Answer
Part(a) It is valid probability model as it follows both conditions of probability.
Part(b) is the probability that the chosen person鈥檚 mother tongue is not English.
Part(c) is the probability that the chosen person鈥檚 mother tongue is one of Canada鈥檚 official languages.


