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If four times as many students pass a statistics course as those who fail and one statistics student is selected at random, what is the probability that the student will pass statistics?
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The sample space consists of all possible outcomes. In this case, the outcomes are either passing or failing the statistics course. However, since there are four times as many students who pass the course than those who fail, we need to account for this in our Show more…
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