7% of Americans are vegetarians. If you ask a random person whether he or she is a vegetarian, what is the probability that the person is not a vegetarian? Explain
Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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It is stated that 7% of Americans are vegetarians, asking a random person if he or she is a vegetarian, the odds are 7 people will be vegetarians and 93 people is not a vegetarian in a every set of 100 random people. 100 minus 7% is 93% and this is the percent of people that are not vegetarian.
The probability that you will get when asking a random person whether he or she is a vegetarian is 7:100 where 7 represents the number of people that will reply that he or she is a vegetarian and 100 represents the number of people.
On the other hand, the probability that you will get when asking a random person whether he or she is a not a vegetarian is 93:100 where 93 represents the number of people that will reply that he or she is not a vegetarian and 100 represents the number of people.