A Survey Conducted in One U Determine the Probability That a Randomly Selected Adult Has Health

question 59

Multiple Choice

A survey conducted in one U.S. city together with information from the census bureau yielded the followingtable. The first two columns give a percentage distribution of adults in the city by ethnic group. The thirdcolumn gives the percentage of people in each ethnic group who have health insurance. Round to the nearestthousandth. $$\begin{array} { l c c } \text { Ethnic Group } & \begin{array} { l } \text { Percentage } \\\text { of adults }\end{array} & \begin{array} { c } \text { Percentage with } \\\text { health insurance }\end{array} \\\hline \text { Caucasian } & 46.5 & 73 \\\text { African American } & 13.5 & 49 \\\text { Hispanic } & 19.4 & 56 \\\text { Asian } & 13.3 & 67 \\\text { Other } & 7.3 & 40\end{array}$$ Determine the probability that a randomly selected adult has health insurance.

• A) 0.633
• B) 0.570
• C) 0.063
• D) 0.603

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Job Sharing

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