9) A used car lot has 15 cars. Five of these cars were manufactured in the United States and the others were made in other countries. If one car is purchased at random from this car lot, the probability that it is a U.S. car is _____ Select one: a. 0.05 b. 0.15 c. 0.33 d. None of the above
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