document.write( "Question 1208210: Use the data in the table below, which shows the employment status of individuals in a particular town by age group.
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document.write( "Age	Full-time	Part-time	Unemployed\r\n" );
document.write( "0—17	   27	          179	           384\r\n" );
document.write( "18—25	  216	          192	           307\r\n" );
document.write( "26—34	  240	           69	            27\r\n" );
document.write( "35—49	  556	          185	           197\r\n" );
document.write( "50+	  278	          165	           349\r\n" );
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document.write( "In this problem, the probability is the ratio of two numbers, numerator and denominator.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The denominator in this problem is the sum of all numbers of the table in columns 2, 3 and 4.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It is the number of all people in the problem.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The numerator is the sum of all people in the cells of the table that are relevant \r\n" );
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document.write( "       The categories of people given in the cells \r\n" );
document.write( "    of the table in this problem are disjoint subsets.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, your task is to find the denominator and the numerator, as described, \r\n" );
document.write( "and then to divide the numerator by the denominator.\r\n" );
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document.write( "When you will calculate the numerator, your task is to add all relevant \r\n" );
document.write( "participating categories (numbers in the relevant cells) once. Don't add any category twice.\r\n" );
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document.write( "These are primitive mathematical operations, which I leave to you to implement.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Follow my instructions.\r\n" );
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