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A survey of 1,108 employees at a software company finds that 621 employees take a bus to work and 445 employees take a train to work. Some employees take a bus and a train, and 321 employees only take a train. To the nearest percent, find the probability that a randomly chosen employee takes a bus or a train to work. Explain.

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We know 445 employees take the train, and that 321 of these exclusively take the train. So 445 - 321 = 124 take both the train and bus.

Now, if
B is the set of employees that take the bus and
T the set of employees that take the train, then


n(B\cup T)=n(B)+n(T)-n(B\cap T)=621+445-124=942

where
n(A) is the number of employees belonging to a general set
A.

So the probability that an employee takes either the bus or train is


(n(B\cup T))/(1108)=(942)/(1108)\approx85\%
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