Foreign-language study, Choose a student in a U.S. public

Foreign-language study

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Problem: Foreign-language study. Choose a student in a U.S. public high school at random and ask if he or she is studying a language other than English. Here is the distribution of results:

Language	Spanish	French	German	All other	None
Probability	0.30	0.08	0.02	0.03	0.57

(a) Explain why this is a legitimate probability model.

(b) What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is studying a language other than English?

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