document.write( "Question 1166420: Data on college graduates' employment indicate that 35% of the graduates find a part-time job within a year of their graduation, 25% of them find a full-time job and the rest of them are unemployed.\r
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document.write( "The probability that one single college graduate student has a job  within a year of the graduation is 0.35+0.25 = 0.6.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The probability that of 2 randomly selected college graduate students at least one of them has a job is\r\n" );
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document.write( "     P = 0.6 + 0.6 - 0.6*0.6 = 0.84.    ANSWER\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use the formula  P(at least one) = P(one) + P(other) - P(both).\r\n" );
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document.write( "I assume also that getting the job for two students are independent events.\r\n" );
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