In: Statistics and Probability
A random sample of computer users were asked which browser they primarily relied on for surfing the Internet and whether this browser was installed on a desktop or laptop computer. The following contingency table shows these results.
Browser |
Desktop |
Laptop |
---|---|---|
Internet Explorer |
18 |
56 |
Firefox |
7 |
37 |
Chrome |
24 |
77 |
Safari |
3 |
18 |
Other |
3 |
7 |
What is the probability that a randomly selected person from this sample used the Internet Explorer or the Chrome browser?
A.
0.585
B.
0.814
C.
0.651
D.
0.700
Definition of probability, p= total no of favourable outcomes / total no of outcomes. Here we need the probability that a randomly chosen person uses either Internet explorer or chrome for browsing. Therefore we took the total no of users who choose Internet explorer + total no of users who choose chrome and divide the quantity of total no of computer users surveyed. The answer we got is 0.7 which is the option D.