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According to recent studies, 57.6% of American citizens are overweight. Suppose that 17% of those who are overweight are children. If American citizen is randomly selected, determine the following probabilities:
a) Selected citizen is overweight and a child
b) Selected citizen is not a child given that he/she is overweight
c) Selected citizen is not a child and is not overweight
P(overweight) = 0.576
P(children | overweight) = 0.17
a) P(overweight and child) = P(children | overweight) * P(overweight)
= 0.17 * 0.576
= 0.0979
b) P(not child | overweight) = 1 - P(children | overweight)
= 1 - 0.17
= 0.83
c) Probability of children who given that they are not overweight is missing. So we can't find P(not child and not overweight)