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If two different people are randomly selected from the 880 subjects, find the probability that they are both heavy smokers

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Answer:

0.006795

Explanation:

Note: The table of the question is attached as picture below

Total number of heavy smokers = 36+ 37 = 73

Total men and women = 880

We need to know the probability of selecting two DIFFERENT heavy smokers.

Probability of (First person selected is a heavy smoker) = 73/880

Discarding the first person, now you have 879 subjects left and 72 heavy smokers left.

So, Probability of Second person selected is a heavy smoker) = 72/879

Probability of 2 different people selected are heavy smokers) = 73/880 * 72/879

= 5256 / 773520

= 0.006795

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