5.31 Religious affiliation The 2012 Statistical Abstract of the United States3 provides information on individuals’

self-described religious affiliations. The information for 2008 is summarized in the following table (all numbers are in thousands).

a. Find the probability that a randomly selected individual is identified as Christian.

b. Given that an individual identifies as Christian, find the probability that the person is Catholic.

c. Given that an individual answered, find the probability the individual is identified as following no religion.

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Christian Catholic 57,199 Baptist 36,148 Christian (no denomination specified) 16,834 Methodist/Wesleyan 11,366 Other Christian 51,855 Jewish 2,680 Muslim Buddhist 1,349 1,189 Other non-Christian No Religion 3,578 34,169 Refused to Answer 11,815 Total Adult Population in 2008 228,182