SOLUTION: A facility had 6,230 surgeries. 1,977 were catarct surgeries. What is the probability of having cataract surgery at this faciity? I figured that 31.73% of all the surgeries we

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Question 754966: A facility had 6,230 surgeries. 1,977 were catarct surgeries. What is the probability of having cataract surgery at this faciity?
I figured that 31.73% of all the surgeries were cataract. Not sure what to do next.

Answer by tommyt3rd(5050) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
almost... we write usually write probabilities as fractions or decimals, so p=1977/6230 = 0.317


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