The following table represents the highest educational attainment of all adult residents in a certain town. If an adult is chosen randomly from the town, what is the probability that they have a high school degree or some college, but have no college degree? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.Age 20-29 Age 30-39 Age 40-49 Age 50 & over TotalHigh school only 879 1283 1054 709 3925Some college 1407 744 881 1375 4407Bachelor's degree 605 1349 1209 1160 4323Master's degree 966 463 654 1103 3186Total 3857 3839 3798 4347 15841Answer
Question
The following table represents the highest educational attainment of all adult residents in a certain town. If an adult is chosen randomly from the town, what is the probability that they have a high school degree or some college, but have no college degree? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.Age 20-29 Age 30-39 Age 40-49 Age 50 & over TotalHigh school only 879 1283 1054 709 3925Some college 1407 744 881 1375 4407Bachelor's degree 605 1349 1209 1160 4323Master's degree 966 463 654 1103 3186Total 3857 3839 3798 4347 15841Answer
Solution
To find the probability that a randomly chosen adult from the town has a high school degree or some college, but no college degree, we need to add the total number of adults with a high school degree only and the total number of adults with some college.
From the table, we can see that the total number of adults with a high school degree only is 3925 and the total number of adults with some college is 4407.
So, the total number of adults with a high school
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