SOLUTION: According to a survey of 2000 home owners, 800 of them own homes with three bedrooms, and 600 of them own homes with four bedrooms. If one home owner is selected at random from th

Question 1164443: According to a survey of 2000 home owners, 800 of them own homes with three bedrooms, and
600 of them own homes with four bedrooms. If one home owner is selected at random from these 2000
home owners, find the probability that this home owner owns a house that has three or four bedrooms.
Explain why this probability is not equal to 1.0
Answer by ikleyn(52776)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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First step is to read the problem attentively.

The second and the third steps are

            a)   to recall the definition of probability,

    and

            b)   to turn on your mind.

This problem is of the complexity level 2 x 2 = 4.

Good for a kindergarten level.

Good luck and happy solving (!)

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