Homework Help: Statistics / Math

Posted by Sam on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 1:54am.

If a student is chosen at random, find the probability of getting someone who is a man or a non-smoker. Round your answer to three decimal places.

non regular heavy total
man 135 64 5 204
women 187 21 9 217
total 322 85 14 421

Answer in decimal (round to nearest 3)

Please help me, I've taken more than an hour to figure this problem out! Please guys! Really appreciate it.

Statistics / Math - drwls, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 2:10am
Out of a total of 421 people, of both sexes and three classifications of smoking habits, 135 were nonsmoking men. Therefore the probability is 135/421 = 0.3207

This assumes that the sampling group was representative of the larger group of people they may have been drawn from.
- Statistics / Math - Sam, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 2:15am
  ops, 0.307 is not in the answer choices.
  
  they are:
  
  0.929
  0.798
  0.949
  0.941
  
  P.S. - Probability of getting a Man OR A Non-Smoker
  - Statistics / Math - Sam, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 2:32am
    Need help with this plzzzzzzzzzz
Statistics / Math - drwls, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 6:08am
I misread the problem as man AND nonsmoker. You want man OR nonsmoker. Using the same method but more groups from the table, I get
(204 + 187)/421 = 0.929

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