The Following Contingency Table Provides a Joint Frequency Distribution for the Popular

question 48

Essay

The following contingency table provides a joint frequency distribution for the popular votes cast in the 1984 presidential election by region and political party. Data are in thousands, rounded to the nearest thousand. If a person who voted in the 1984 presidential election is selected at random, $\mathrm { P } \left( \mathrm { R } _ { 2 } \& \mathrm { P } _ { 1 } \right) = 0.113$ . Interpret this probability in terms of percentages.

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