4.16 Health Care Most Canadians feel that health care is the most important issue. Research Canada: An Alliance for Health Discovery (www.rc-rc.ca) released the result of its first public opinion survey on health research in Canada. The results are shown in the table.

Suppose that one person is randomly selected and his or her opinion on this question is recorded.

a. What are the simple events in the experiment?

b. Are the simple events in part a equally likely? If not, what are the probabilities?

c. What is the probability that the person feels health care is at least somewhat important?

d. What is the probability that the person feels health care is either not very important or not at all important?

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Opinion Proportion Very important 0.88 Somewhat important 0.10 Not very important 0.01 Not at all important 0.01