Question

Suppose that you live in a community that has 125,000 households. Among these households, 50,000 have traditional landline telephones while the remaining 75,000 only use cellular and / or VOIP telephones. We are going to select 100 households from your community at random without replacement. The first household selected does not have a traditional landline telephone. What is the probability that the second household selected will have a traditional landline telephone

Answer 1

0.4 = 40% probability that the second household selected will have a traditional landline telephone

Explanation:

A probability is given by the number of desired outcomes divided by the number of total outcomes.

We have that:

125,000 households

50,000 have traditional landlines telephones.

The first household selected does not have a traditional landline telephone.

Now we have 125000 - 1 = 124,999 households, and 50,000 have traditional landlines telephones.

What is the probability that the second household selected will have a traditional landline telephone

`p = (50000)/(124999) = 0.4`

0.4 = 40% probability that the second household selected will have a traditional landline telephone