SOLUTION: Need help A recent survey indicated that in a town of 1500 households, 850 had cordless telephones. If a house hold is randomly selected, find the probability that it has a cord

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Question 398968: Need help
A recent survey indicated that in a town of 1500 households, 850 had cordless telephones. If a house hold is randomly selected, find the probability that it has a cordless telephone. My answer that I got was 1.8
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Hi

1500 households of which 850 had cordless telephones

P(one selected has cordless phone) = 850/1500 = .5667



Note: Probability of something happening is NEVER more than 1.

P = 1   would indicate something always happens...

P = 0   would indicate it never happens