Question

a cbs news poll conducted june 10 and 11, 2006, among a nationwide random sample of 651 adults, asked those adults about their party affiliation (democrat, republican or none) and their opinion of how the us economy was changing (\getting better,\ \getting worse\ or \about the same\). the results are shown in the table below.

	better	same	worse
democrat	12	87	137
none	21	90	118

express your answers as a decimal and round to four decimal places (in other words, type 0.1235, not 12.35% or 0.123456).

if we randomly select one of the adults who participated in this study, compute:

p(affiliated with neither party) =

p(worse) =

p(worse|affiliated with neither party) =

p(affiliated with neither party|worse) =

p(affiliated with neither party and worse) =

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Explanation:

Step1: Calculate total number of adults

The total number of adults in the sample is $38 + 104+44 + 12+87 + 137+21+90+118=651$.

Step2: Calculate $P(\text{worse}|\text{affiliated with neither party})$

The number of adults affiliated with neither party is $21 + 90+118 = 229$. The number of adults affiliated with neither party and think the economy is getting worse is 118. By the formula for conditional - probability $P(A|B)=\frac{P(A\cap B)}{P(B)}$, in frequency - based terms $P(\text{worse}|\text{affiliated with neither party})=\frac{118}{229}\approx0.5153$.

Step3: Calculate $P(\text{affiliated with neither party}|\text{worse})$

The number of adults who think the economy is getting worse is $44 + 137+118 = 299$. Using the formula for conditional - probability $P(\text{affiliated with neither party}|\text{worse})=\frac{118}{299}\approx0.3947$.

Step4: Calculate $P(\text{affiliated with neither party and worse})$

The number of adults affiliated with neither party and think the economy is getting worse is 118. So $P(\text{affiliated with neither party and worse})=\frac{118}{651}\approx0.1813$.

Answer:

$P(\text{worse}|\text{affiliated with neither party})\approx0.5153$
$P(\text{affiliated with neither party}|\text{worse})\approx0.3947$
$P(\text{affiliated with neither party and worse})\approx0.1813$