The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 13 - General Rules of Probability - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 307: 13.1

Answer

Two events are independent, if occurrence of an event does not effect the probability of the other event. From the given information we can deduce that the events are not independent so we can't conclude that 2.4% of adults of age 55 years or older are full time students or not.

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