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A person in the audience of a talk show has a 15% chance of winning free movie tickets. What is the chance that a person in the audience may not win free movie ticketsa.85 percentb.79 percent c. 35 percentd.30 percent

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Since it's mentioned that a person in the audience of a talk show has a 15% chance of winning free movie tickets, the rest of the percentage must be the chance that he may not win.

We get,


\text{Chance to win + Chance to lose = 100\%}
\text{ 15\% + Chance to lose = 100\%}
\text{ Chance to lose = 100\% - 15\%}
\text{ Chance to lose = 85\%}

Therefore, the chance that the audience may not win is 85%.

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