SOLUTION: Researchers find that the 2004 population of California was 35,893,799, the 2004 population of Pennsylvania was 12,406,292, and the total US population was 293,655,404. What is the

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Question 211059: Researchers find that the 2004 population of California was 35,893,799, the 2004 population of Pennsylvania was 12,406,292, and the total US population was 293,655,404. What is the probability that a randomly selected US resident did not live in California? Round to the nearest thousandth of a percent.
Answer by edjones(8007)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
293655404-35893799
=257,761,605 people don't live in CA.
.
257761605/293655404
=.878
.
Ed

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