Question

A group of students were surveyed to find out if they like watching television or reading during their free time. The results of the survey are shown below:
90 students like watching television
20 students like watching television but do not like reading
80 students like reading
40 students do not like watching television
Make a two-way table to represent the data and use the table to answer the following questions.
Part A: What percentage of the total students surveyed like both watching television and reading? Show your work.
Part B: What is the probability that a student wh

Answer 1

@cinnamonbun

Answer 2

@openstudier013087

Answer 3

@jim_thompson5910

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@openstudier013087

Answer 5

how far did you get @hoothoot23 ?

Were you able to set up the two-way table?

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its confusing

Answer 7

i tried

Answer 8

i just dot know where the numbers go

Answer 9

Let's make up some notation. This is to simplify things

W = person likes to watch TV
~W = person does NOT like to watch TV
R = person likes to read
~R = person does NOT like to read

The two-way table would look like this

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We're told `90 students like watching TV`

where does the number "90" go in this two-way table? You can write in 90 or mark the cell or describe which row and column

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90 goes in the row w

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which cell in row W?

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the first

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that cell is where people like reading and watching tv

but they don't say "90 people like reading and watching tv"

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so in -R

Answer 16

the next cell over is where people like watching tv, but they don't like reading

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they don't say "90 people like watching tv and hate reading"

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the 90 would go in the "total" cell in row W