Use the Following Table to Answer Questions

question 53

Essay

Use the following table to answer questions . A random sample of college students was asked to respond
to a survey about how they spend their free time on a week night. One question, summarized in the table below,
asked each respondent to choose the one activity that they are most likely to participate in on a Wednesday
afternoon/evening. The activity choices were homework, housework, outside employment, recreation, or other.
-If one person is chosen randomly from the group, what is the probability that the person is working on their homework on a Wednesday afternoon/evening? (round to the nearest thousandth)

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Definitions:

Area

The extent or measurement of a surface or piece of land.

z

Often represents a standard score in statistics, indicating how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Standard Normal Distribution

The standard normal distribution is a normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, used in probability theory to represent real-valued random variables with unknown distributions.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of the numbers.