Question

A study was done to compare people's religion with how many days that they have said they have been calm in the past three days.

0 days

1 day

2 days

3 days

Protestant

50

27

6

16

Catholic

55

19

2

11

Jewish

84

34

4

18

Other

84

34

2

22





What proportion of Protestants were calm for 2 out of the 3 days?

Answer 1

0.061

Explanation:

Number of days Protestants

0 50

1 27

2 6

3 16

The proportion of protestant remain calm for 2 days= number of protestant calm for 2 days/ Total number of protestant calm for 0-3 days

The proportion of protestant remain calm for 2 days =6/50+27+6+16=6/99=0.061 (rounded to 3 decimal places)

Thus, 6.1% of protestant remain calm for 2 days.