SOLUTION: In a group of students, 50% of the students were taking statistics subjects, 30% economics and 10% both the subjects what is the probability that a student was taking neither stati

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Question 1191615: In a group of students, 50% of the students were taking statistics subjects, 30% economics and 10% both the subjects what is the probability that a student was taking neither statistics nor economics?
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In a group of students, 50% of the students were taking statistics subjects,
30% economics and 10% both the subjects
what is the probability that a cross%28student%29 highlight%28randomly_selected_student_of_the_group%29 was taking neither statistics nor economics?
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            Notice how I edited your post to make it logically correct.



The percentage of those who take at least one subject is 50% + 30% - 10% = 70%.

The rest 30% of students take NEITHER statistics NOR economic.             ANSWER

Solved.