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Canada has two official languages, English and French. Choose a Canadian at random and ask, "What is your mother tongue?" Here is the distribution of responses, combining many separate languages from the broad Asian/Pacific region:

Language  English   French   Asian/Pacific   Other
Probability  0.63       0.22       0.06                 ?

What probability should replace "?" in the distribution?

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