SOLUTION: A group of people were asked if they had run a red light in the last year. 222 responded "yes", and 433 responded "no". Find the probability that if a person is chosen at random

Question 1195644: A group of people were asked if they had run a red light in the last year. 222 responded "yes", and 433 responded "no".
Find the probability that if a person is chosen at random, they responded "yes".
Answer:

Give your answer as a decimal, rounded to the nearest thousandth.
Answer by ikleyn(52814) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The answer is the fraction, whose numerator is the number of people answered "yes",

while the denominator is the total number of the interviewed people.

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