Chapter 5: Q. T5.11 (page 357)
The two-way table summarizes data on whether students at a certain high school eat
regularly in the school cafeteria by grade level.

a. If you choose a student at random, what is the probability that the student eats
regularly in the cafeteria and is not a grader?
b. If you choose a student at random who eats regularly in the cafeteria, what is the probability that the student is a grader?
c. Are the events 鈥grader鈥 and 鈥渆ats regularly in the cafeteria鈥 independent?
Justify your answer.
Short Answer
a. the probability that the student eats regularly in the cafeteria and is not a grader is
b. the probability that a student at random who eats regularly in the cafeteria and is agrader
is
c. the events 鈥10th-grader鈥 and 鈥渆ats regularly in the cafeteria鈥 are not independent.




