The following two-way contingency table gives the breakdown of the population of adults in a town according to their highest level of education and whether or not they regularly take vitamins:   Use of Vitamins Education Takes Does Not Take No High School Diploma 0.03 0.07 High School Diploma 0.11 0.39 Undergraduate Degree 0.09 0.27 Graduate Degree 0.02 0.02 You select a person at random. What is the probability the person only has a high school diploma?

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Section12.3: Conditional Probability; Independent Events; Bayes' Theorem
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The following two-way contingency table gives the breakdown of the population of adults in a town according to their highest level of education and whether or not they regularly take vitamins:

  Use of Vitamins
Education Takes Does Not Take
No High School Diploma 0.03 0.07
High School Diploma 0.11 0.39
Undergraduate Degree 0.09 0.27
Graduate Degree 0.02 0.02

You select a person at random. What is the probability the person only has a high school diploma?

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