SOLUTION: Of students entering a certain private college, 27% require a developmental math course and 34% require a developmental English course, while 11% need both a developmental math cou

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Question 1029894: Of students entering a certain private college, 27% require a developmental math course and 34% require a developmental English course, while 11% need both a developmental math course and a developmental English course.
Find the probability that a first year student requires neither a development math course nor a developmental English course.

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): Of students entering a certain private college, 27% require a developmental math course and 34% require a developmental English course, while 11% need both a developmental math course and a developmental English course.
Find the probability that a first year student requires neither a development math course nor a developmental English course.
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You want the probability of the complement of (E or M)
which is (E or M)'
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P(E or M) = 0.27 + 0.34 - 0.11 = 0.50
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Ans: P(E or M)' = 0.50
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Cheers,
Stan H.