SOLUTION: Probabilities of Native-and Foreign-Born Persons: According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2006, the 2004 U.S. population of 288,280,000 included 34,244,000 who were for

Question 430157: Probabilities of Native-and Foreign-Born Persons:
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2006, the 2004 U.S. population of 288,280,000 included 34,244,000 who were foreign born. Find the empirical probability that a randomly chosen person of that population would be...
(a) foreign born (b)native born

-My concern about this is if I am understanding this and setting up the formula correctly in order to solve it. Therefore, should I write it as (a)P(foreign born)= 34,244,000/288,280,000 and P(native born)= #/288,280,000?(I just not sure which way I am supposed to write this damn formula because this stuff always has confused the hell out of me so much, so please help me understand this best as possible and if I am doing this correctly or not at all too.)
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Probabilities of Native-and Foreign-Born Persons:
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac 2006, the 2004 U.S. population of 288,280,000 included 34,244,000 who were foreign born. Find the empirical probability that a randomly chosen person of that population would be...
(a) foreign born
P(foreign born) = 34,244,000/228,280,000
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(b)native born
P(native born) = (288,280,000-34,244,000) = 228,280,000
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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-My concern about this is if I am understanding this and setting up the formula correctly in order to solve it. Therefore, should I write it as (a)P(foreign born)= 34,244,000/288,280,000 and P(native born)= #/288,280,000?(I just not sure which way I am supposed to write this damn formula because this stuff always has confused the hell out of me so much, so please help me understand this best as possible and if I am doing this correctly or not at all too.)
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