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Probability ContingencyTables

The document provides exercises on calculating probabilities using contingency tables related to voting behavior and social media account ownership. It includes specific questions for each table, requiring the calculation of probabilities as fractions and rounding them to the nearest hundredth. Additionally, it presents a scenario involving survey results about support for Trump and party affiliation, with instructions to create a 4 by 4 table summarizing the data.

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Probability ContingencyTables

The document provides exercises on calculating probabilities using contingency tables related to voting behavior and social media account ownership. It includes specific questions for each table, requiring the calculation of probabilities as fractions and rounding them to the nearest hundredth. Additionally, it presents a scenario involving survey results about support for Trump and party affiliation, with instructions to create a 4 by 4 table summarizing the data.

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Probability: Contingency Tables

Objectives:
 Finding probability using tables
 Making tables
Exercises:
1. Use the information in the table to answer the following questions. State the probabilities as
fractions and round to the nearest hundredth.

Voted Did not Vote Totals


Democrat 35 23 58
Republican 57 28 85
Totals 92 51 143

a. What is the probability someone chosen at random is a Democrat?


b. What is the probability someone chosen at random is a Democrat who voted?
c. What is the probability someone chosen at random did not vote and is a Republican?
d. What is the probability someone chosen at random did not vote or is a Republican?
e. What is the probability someone chosen at random is a Republican or is a Democrat?
f. Given that someone is a Democrat, what is the probability they did not vote?

2. Use the information in the table to answer the following questions. State the probabilities as
fractions and round to the nearest hundredth.

Have Don’t Have


Totals
Instagram Instagram
Have Facebook 37 13 50
Don’t Have Facebook 65 10 75
Totals 102 23 125

a. What is the probability someone has Facebook?


b. What is the probability someone does not have any of the accounts?

c. What is the probability someone has Facebook ∪ Instagram?

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d. What is the probability someone has Facebook ∩ Instagram?

e. Given that someone does not have Facebook, what is the probability they have
Instagram?
f. Given that someone has Instagram, what is the probability they don’t have Facebook?

3. Use the given information below to make and complete a 4 by 4 table that displays all the
information, including the total.
We surveyed 200 people. We asked them two questions: Do you support Trump? Are you a
Republican? Here are the results:
 A total of 110 people supported Trump, 90 did not.
 A total of 75 people are Republican, the rest are not.
 50 people who are Republican supported Trump.

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Answers:
58
1a. ; 0.41
143
35
1b. ; 0.24
143
28
1c. ; 0.2
143
108
1d. ; 0.76
143

1e. 1
23
1f. ; 0.4
58
50
2a. 125
; 0.4
10
2b. ; 0.08
125
115
2c. ; 0.92
125
37
2d. ; 0.3
125
65
2e. ; 0.87
75
65
2f. ; 0.64
102

3.

Support Not Support


Total
Trump Trump
Republican 50 25 75
Not Republican 60 65 125
Total 110 90 200

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