In the article "Education and Correctional Populations" (Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, NCJ 195670), C. Harlow examined the educational attainment of prisoners by type of prison facility. The following contingency table was adapted from Table 1 of the article. Frequencies are in thousands, rounded to the nearest hundred.

How many prisoners
a. Are in state facilities?
b. Have at least a college education?
c. Are in federal facilities and have at most an 8th-grade education?
d. Are in federal facilities or have at most an 8th-grade education?
e. In local facilities have a postsecondary educational attainment?
f. With a postsecondary educational attainment are in local facilities?
g. Are not in federal facilities?

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Prison facility State Federal Local Total 149.9 10.666.0 226.5 269.1 12.9 168.2 450.2 300.8 20. 71.0 3919 216.424.0 130.4 370.8 95.0 14.0 51.9160.9 8th grade or lesS Some high GED E High school diploma 3 Postsecondary College grad 25.37.2 16.1 48.6 or more Total 056.5 88.8503.61648.9