Canada has two official languages, English and French. Choose a Canadian at random and ask, What is

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Canada has two official languages, English and French. Choose a Canadian at random and ask, “What is your mother tongue?” Here is the distribution of responses, combining many separate languages from the broad Asia/Pacific region:

Language English French Asian/Pacific Other Probability 0.63 0.22 0.06 0.09


a. Explain why this is a valid probability model.

b. What is the probability that the chosen person’s mother tongue is not English?

c. What is the probability that the chosen person’s mother tongue is one of Canada’s official languages?

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781319113339

6th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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