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A school has 200 seniors of whom 140 will be going to college next year. Forty will be going directly to work. The remainder are taking a gap year. Fifty of the seniors going to college play sports. Thirty of the seniors going directly to work play sports. What is the probability that a senior is going directly to work?

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skyluke89

Answer:

0.2

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability that a senior is going directly to work is:

[tex]p(sw)=\frac{w}{s}[/tex]

where:

w is the number of seniors going directly to work

s is the total number of seniors in the school

In this problem, we have:

s = 200 is the number of seniors in the school

w = 40 is the number of seniors that will go directly to work

Therefore, the probability is:

[tex]p(sw)=\frac{40}{200}=0.2[/tex]

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