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Of 1232 people who came into a blood bank to give blood, 397 people had high blood pressure. Estimate the probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure.

User Chaosguru
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I'm going to round these numbers to make them easier to work with. We will get an approximate answer.
350 / 2000
= 35 / 200
= 3.5 / 20
= 0.35 / 2
= 0.175

answer is 0.175
User KLI
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Answer:

Probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure is:

0.3222

Explanation:

Let A be an event

then, P(A)= number of favorable events/total number of events

Here, A: People having high blood pressure

P(A)= number of people having high blood pressure/total number of people

= 397/1232

= 0.3222

Hence, probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure is:

0.3222

User Gaurav Mathur
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