Probabilities of a random experiment

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1. Choose an American household at random and ask how many cars and trucks that household owns. Here are the probabilities as of 1997:

Number of Vehicles	0	1	2	3	4	5
Probability	0.04	0.25	0.45	0.18	0.06	0.02

What is the probability that a randomly chosen household owns more than one motor vehicle?

A) 0.96

B) 0.71

C) 0.26

D) 0.25

2. A certain random experiment can result in one of four different possible outcomes, which we'll call A, B, C and D. It has been determined that the probabilities of these outcomes are as follows:

A	B	C	D
1/6	0	?	2/6

What is the probability of outcome C?

A) 0.75

B) 0.50

C) 0.25

D) 0

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