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Bruce is going to call one person from his contacts at random. He has 35 total contacts. 15 of those contacts are from his neighborhood. What is the probability he calls a person not from his neighborhood? Write your answer as a simplified fraction .

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Answer:

two fifths is the answer because you would divide 15 by 35 to get .4 which is two fifths.

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Answer:

do 35 divided by 15 then just put that into fraction form

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