822 Recently Purchased Books Were Randomly Selected from All Recent

question 111

Multiple Choice

822 recently purchased books were randomly selected from all recent book purchases over the Internet. The chart below shows the breakdown of the classification of the book type. What percentage of the books in the sample were self-help books?

• A) 11.44
• B) .1144
• C) 1.82
• D) 0.0182
• E) 0.940

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