Question

Pollsters are concerned about declining levels of cooperation among persons contacted in surveys. A pollster contacts 90 people in the 18-21 age bracket and finds that 76 of them respond and 14 refuse to respond. When 263 people in the 22-29 age bracket are contacted, 240 respond and 23 refuse to respond. Assume that 1 of the 353 people is randomly selected. Find the probability of getting someone in the 22-29 age bracket or someone who agreed to respond.

Answer 1

The probability of getting someone in the 22-29 age bracket or someone who agreed to respond is 0.96.

What is probability?

The rate of possible outcomes to the total outcomes is said to be the probability.

P(E) = n(E)/n(S)

E - event and S -sample space

we have,

P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B)

Calculation:

It is given that,

Pollsters are concerned about declining levels of cooperation among persons contacted in surveys.

The data is listed below:

(Age group)                Response - agreed         Response - refused   Total

18-21                            76                                     14                                 90

22-29                          240                                   23                                263

Total                            316                                    37                                353

So, consider the required events

Age group (22-29) as A and someone who agreed to respond as B

Thus, the probabilities are calculated as below:

P(A) = n(A)/n(S) = 263/353

P(B) = n(B)/n(S) = 316/353

P(A and B) = n(A and B)/n(S) = 240/353

Substituting all these in the formula we get,

P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B)

               = 263/353 + 316/353 - 240/353

               = 339/353

               = 0.96

Therefore, the required probability is 0.96.

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