The General Social Survey asked 32,201 people how much confidence they had in educational institutions. The results were as follows.

a. What is the probability that a sampled person has either some or a great deal of confidence in educational institutions?

b. Assume this is a simple random sample from a population.
Use the Empirical Method to estimate the probability that a person has a great deal of confidence in educational institutions.

c. If we use a cutoff of 0.05, is it unusual for someone to have hardly any confidence in educational institutions?

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Response Number A great deal 10,040 Some 17,890 Hardly any 4,271 Total 32,201