QNT 275 Week 3 Learning Team Collaborative Discussion: Probability

Resource: Case Study 5.2 in Chapter 5 of Essentials of Business Statistics

Calculate the requested probabilities for items 1-3.

Discuss your findings for the probabilities.

• Identify the smoking trend from 1997-2007.
• Explain whether this is a discrete, continuous, or conditional probability.
• Explain how probabilities help you understand trends in data.
• Recommend steps related to smoking behavior based on this trend.