A group of people were asked if they had run a red light in the last year. 247 responded "yes", and 492 responded "no". Find the probability that if a person is chosen at random, they responded "yes".
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To do this, we add the number of "yes" responses and the number of "no" responses: Total number of people = 247 (yes) + 492 (no) = 739 Now, we want to find the probability that a person chosen at random responded "yes". To do this, we divide the number of "yes" Show more…
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