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OpenStax, Statistics §3.4 Contingency Tables · Exercise 13 · Probability · Conditional probability

Contingency Tables · Exercise 13

Use the information in the to answer the next eight exercises. The table shows the political party affiliation of each of 67 members of the U.S. Senate in June 2012, and when they would next be up for reelection.


What is the probability that a randomly selected senator would be up for reelection in November 2016?

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OpenStax, Statistics · §3.4 Contingency Tables · Exercise 13

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