SOLUTION: At a local college,178 of the male students are smokers and 712 are non-smokers. Of the female students,80 are smokers and 720 are nonsmokers. A male student and a female stude
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Question 1090068: At a local college,178 of the male students are smokers and 712 are non-smokers. Of the female students,80 are smokers and 720 are nonsmokers. A male student and a female student from the college are randomly selected for a survey. What is the probability that both are non-smokers?
Do not round your answer.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! This is the joint probability, which would be 712/890 for the man and 720/800 (9/10) for the women.
This is 6408/8900 or 1602/2225 or 0.72
It is 0.8*0.9
