SOLUTION: A researcher polled 260 students at a university and found that 83 of them owned a laptop computer. Estimate the probability that a randomly selected college student owns a laptop

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Question 96434: A researcher polled 260 students at a university and found that 83 of them owned a laptop computer. Estimate the probability that a randomly selected college student owns a laptop computer.
Answer by checkley71(8403) About Me  (Show Source):
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83/260=.32 or 32% of the students own a laptop.
Therefore randon selection of a student would find 32% of the time they would own a laptop.