Students in an urban school were curious about how many children regularly eat breakfast. They conducted a survey, asking, “Do you eat breakfast regularly?” All 595 students in the school responded to the survey. The resulting data are summarized in the two-way table.   Sex Eats Breakfast Regularly   Male  Female  Total  Yes 190 110 300 No 130 165 295 Total  320 275 595   Suppose we select a student from the school at random. Define event F as getting a female student and event B as getting a student who eats breakfast regularly. (a) Find P(BC).   %                Round to 3 decimal places then convert to a percentage. Describe this probability in words. There is about a     probability that a     student from this school     eat breakfast regularly. (b) Find P(female and doesn’t eat breakfast regularly).   Round your answer to 3 decimal places. Leave your answer in decimal form. (c) Find P(F or BC ).   Round to 3 decimal places. Leave your answer in decimal form.

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Students in an urban school were curious about how many children regularly eat breakfast. They conducted a survey, asking, “Do you eat breakfast regularly?” All 595 students in the school responded to the survey. The resulting data are summarized in the two-way table.

  Sex

Eats Breakfast Regularly
  Male  Female  Total 
Yes 190 110 300
No 130 165 295
Total  320 275 595

 

Suppose we select a student from the school at random. Define event F as getting a female student and event B as getting a student who eats breakfast regularly.

(a) Find P(BC).
 
%                Round to 3 decimal places then convert to a percentage.

Describe this probability in words.

There is about a 

 

 probability that a 

 

 student from this school 

 

 eat breakfast regularly.

(b) Find P(female and doesn’t eat breakfast regularly).
 
Round your answer to 3 decimal places.
Leave your answer in decimal form.
(c) Find P(F or BC ).
 
Round to 3 decimal places. Leave your answer in decimal form.
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