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Chapter 5: Q. 41 (page 327)

Who eats breakfast?Students in an urban school were curious about how many children regularly eat breakfast. They conducted a survey, asking, 鈥淒o you eat breakfast on a regular basis?鈥� All 595students in the school responded to the survey. The resulting data are shown in the two-way table.

Suppose we select a student from the school at random. Define event Fas getting a female student and event Bas getting a student who eats breakfast regularly.

a. Find P(BC)

b. Find P(FandBC). Interpret this value in context.

c. Find P(ForBC).

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a. Student who does not eat breakfast on a regular basis 0.4958

b. The probability that a student is female and do not eats breakfast regularly is 0.2773

c. The probability that a student is female or do not eats breakfast regularly is0.6807

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Part (a) Step 1 : Given Information

We have to compute the probability of BC

02

Part (a) Step 2 : Simplification

Below is a two-way table showing gender and breakfast habits.

Fis the occurrence of a female student being chosen.
Bis the occurrence of a student who frequently eats breakfast.
The following formula was used:

鈥�P(BC)=NumberofstudentswhodonoteatbreakfastregularlyTotalnumberofstudents

BCrefers to a student who does not eat breakfast on a regular basis.

Between the two tables,
295kids do not eat breakfast on a regular basis.
There are 595pupils in all.

P(Bc)=295595=0.4958

03

Part (b) Step 1 : Given Information

We have to compute the probability of Fand Bc

04

Part (b) Step 2 : Simplification

Female students do not eat breakfast on a daily basis is 165
The total number of pupils in the class is 595

P(FandBc)=165595=0.2773

The probability that a student is female and do not eats breakfast regularly is 0.2773.

05

Part (c) Step 1 : Given Information

We have to compute P(FandBc).

06

Part (c) Step 2 : Simplification

The formula we use :

P(ForBc)=P(F)+P(Bc)鈭�P(FandBc)鈥�P(F)=NumberoffemalestudentsTotalnumberofstudents

There are 275female students.
There are 595pupils in all.

P(F)=275595=0.4622P(FandBc)=0.4622+0.4958鈭�0.2773=0.6807

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