SOLUTION: A statistics class has 50 students and among those students, 35 are business majors and 7 like grilled cheese. Of the business majors, 3 like grilled cheese. Find the probability

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Question 1194263: A statistics class has 50 students and among those students, 35 are business majors and 7 like grilled cheese. Of the business majors, 3 like grilled cheese. Find the probability that a randomly selected statistics student is a business major or likes grilled cheese.
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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    P =  =  =  = 0.78 = 78%.    ANSWER


The idea of the solution is that the favorable set is 35 students that are business majors    
7-3 = 4      of the statistics class that like grilled cheese.

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