In a class of 23 students, 8 play an instrument and 13 play a sport. There are 4 students who do not play an instrument or a sport. What is the probability that a student who plays an instrument does not play a sport?Answer:
Q. In a class of 23 students, 8 play an instrument and 13 play a sport. There are 4 students who do not play an instrument or a sport. What is the probability that a student who plays an instrument does not play a sport?Answer:
Calculate Total Students: First, let's determine the total number of students who play an instrument or a sport, or both. We know that 4 students do not play either, so the number of students who play at least one is the total number of students minus those who play neither.Calculation: 23 students (total) - 4 students (neither) = 19 students (at least one).
Find Students Playing Both: Next, we need to find out how many students play only an instrument. We know that 8 play an instrument and 13 play a sport, but this information includes students who might play both. Since there are 19 students who play at least one, and 4 who play neither, we can find the number of students who play both an instrument and a sport by subtracting the number of students who play at least one from the sum of students who play an instrument and those who play a sport.Calculation: $(\(8\) \text{ students (instrument)} + \(13\) \text{ students (sport)}) - \(19\) \text{ students (at least one)} = \(2\) \text{ students (both)}.
Calculate Students Playing Only: Now we can calculate the number of students who play only an instrument by subtracting the number of students who play both an instrument and a sport from the total number of students who play an instrument.\(\newline\)Calculation: \(8\) students (instrument) - \(2\) students (both) = \(6\) students (only instrument).
Calculate Probability: To find the probability that a student who plays an instrument does not play a sport, we divide the number of students who play only an instrument by the total number of students who play an instrument.\(\newline\)Calculation: \(6\) students (only instrument) / \(8\) students (instrument) = \(\frac{3}{4}\).
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