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document.write( "\"The probability of rain on Monday is 40%. What is the probability of the complementary event?\"\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I don't understand I thought I was just suppose to subtract 40 from the total 100 and get 60 but it says its wrong. Any help is much appreciated. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "By any reasonable interpretation of \"complementary event\" when talking about probabilities, the complementary event for \"rain\" is \"no rain\".<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "So if the problem says the probability of rain is 40%, then the probability of no rain is 100%-40% = 60%.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "So \"60 should be the right answer, as long as you wrote it as \"60%\" and not as just \"60\". </SPAN>\n" );
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