document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=328028>Question 328028</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> At a used book sale, 100 books are adult books and 160 books are children's books.  Seventy of the adult books are nonfiction while 60 of the children's books are nonfiction.   If a book is selected at random, find the probability of selecting the following \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "a. fiction \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "b. not a children's nonfiction \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "c. an adult book or a children's nonfiction </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The probability of anything is the number of ways that it can happen that you would consider a success divided by the number of ways it can happen total -- successes and failures.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "There are 100 adult books and 160 children's books, hence there are 260 total books.  That is your denominator.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The numerators are:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1.  (The number of adult books minus the number of adult non-fiction) + (the number of children's books minus the number of children's non-fiction)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2.  The total number of books (260) minus the number of children's non-fiction.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3.  The number of adult books plus the number of children's non-fiction.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
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