At a Small College, All Entering Freshmen Must Take a Foreign

question 28

Multiple Choice

At a small college, all entering freshmen must take a foreign language class, chosen from the languages Spanish, French, Swahili, Chinese, and Arabic. Because there is limited space in the foreign language courses, a student cannot simultaneously enroll in more than one course. The probability distribution for the language studied by a randomly selected freshman is summarized in the following table. The probability that the freshman is studying Spanish is:

• A)0.08.
• B)0.52.
• C)0.48.
• D)The answer cannot be determined from the information given.

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