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The Economic Report of the President Gives the Following Age

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The Economic Report of the President gives the following age distribution of the United
States population for the year 2000:  United States Population By Age Group, 2000 Outcome (age  category)  Under 5 515161920242544456465 and  over  Percentage 0.060.160.060.070.300.220.13\begin{array}{l}\text { United States Population By Age Group, } 2000\\\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | l | l | l | l | } \hline \begin{array} { l } \text { Outcome (age } \\\text { category) }\end{array} & \text { Under 5 } & 5 - 15 & 16 - 19 & 20 - 24 & 25 - 44 & 45 - 64 & \begin{array} { l } 65 \text { and } \\\text { over }\end{array} \\\hline \text { Percentage } & 0.06 & 0.16 & 0.06 & 0.07 & 0.30 & 0.22 & 0.13 \\\hline\end{array}\end{array} Imagine that every person was assigned a unique number between 1 and 275,372,000 (the
total population in 2000).If you generated a random number, what would be the
probability that you had drawn someone older than 65 or under 16? Treating the
percentages as probabilities, write down the cumulative probability distribution.What is
the probability of drawing someone who is 24 years or younger?

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