3. Twenty five percent of a town's voters favor letting a major discount store move into theirneighbourhood, 60% are against it and 15% are indifferent. What is the probability that arandomly selected voter from this town will either be against it or be indifferent?

Given , P(Voters area in favor) = 25% = 0.25 P(Voters are against) = 60 %= 0.6 P( indifferent) = 15%…

Answered: Twenty five percent of a town's voters…

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