
Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337115186
Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4.2, Problem 20E
Junior Achievement USA and the Allstate Foundation surveyed teenagers aged 14 to 18 and asked at what age they think that they will become financially independent (USA Today, April 30, 2012). The responses of 944 teenagers who answered this survey question are as follows.
Age Financially Independent | Number of Responses |
16 to 20 | 191 |
21 to 24 | 467 |
25 to 27 | 244 |
28 or older | 42 |
Consider the experiment of randomly selecting a teenager from the population of teenagers aged 14 to 18.
- a. Compute the
probability of being financially independent for each of the four age categories. - b. What is the probability of being financially independent before the age of 25?
- c. What is the probability of being financially independent after the age of 24?
- d. Do the probabilities suggest that the teenagers may be somewhat unrealistic in their expectations about when they will become financially independent?
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