Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Section 5.3 - Assess Your Understanding - Applying the Concepts - Page 285: 19d

Answer

The event none of the 4 has some form of mental illness is not unusual.

Work Step by Step

$30$% $=0.3$ The event "18- to 25-year-olds has not any form of mental illness" is the complement of "18- to 25-year-olds has some form of mental illness". So, we use the Complement Rule (see page 275): $P(18- to~25-year-olds~has~not~any~form~of~mental~illness)=1-P(18- to~25-year-olds~has~some~form~of~mental~illness)=1-0.3=0.7$ The events "18- to 25-year-olds 1 has not any form of mental illness", "18- to 25-year-olds 2 has not any form of mental illness", "18- to 25-year-olds 3 has not any form of mental illness" and "18- to 25-year-olds 4 has not any form of mental illness" are independent. Now, using the Multiplication Rule (see page 282): $P(none~of~the~4~has~some~form~of~mental~illness)=P(18- to~25-year-olds~1~has~not~any~form~of~mental~illness)\times P(18- to~25-year-olds~2~has~not~any~form~of~mental~illness)\times P(18- to~25-year-olds~3~has~not~any~form~of~mental~illness)\times P(18- to~25-year-olds~4~has~not~any~form~of~mental~illness)=0.7\times0.7\times0.7\times0.7=0.7^{4}=0.2401$ $0.2401\gt0.05$. The event none of the 4 has some form of mental illness is not unusual.
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