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S-CP How Do You Get to School?

Task

All of the upper-division students (juniors and seniors) at a high school were classified
according to grade level and response to the question "How do you usually get to
school?" The resulting data are summarized in the two-way table below.

Car Bus Walk Totals

Juniors 96 122 56 274

Seniors 184 58 30 272

Totals 280 180 86 546

a. If an upper-division student at this school is selected at random, what is the

probability that this student usually takes a bus to school?

i. 58
272

ii. 180
546

iii. 122
274

iv. 58
122

v. 272
546

b. If a randomly selected upper-division student says he or she is a junior, what is the

probability that heor she usually walks to school?
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i. 56
546

ii. 86
546

iii. 56
274

iv. 86
274

v. 274
546

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