Precalculus (10th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32197-907-9
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Chapter 13 - Counting and Probability - 13.3 Probability - 13.3 Asses Your Understanding - Page 866: 54

Answer

$0.835$

Work Step by Step

We know that $P(\text{an event happens})=1-P(\text{an event doesn't happen}).$ Hence, here (with $16.5\%=0.165$) we have $P(\text{not in engineering})=1-P(\text{in engineering})\\ P(\text{not in engineering})=1-0.165\\ P(\text{not in engineering})=0.835$
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