An adult who visited a therapist during the past year is randomly selected. what is the probability this adult used non-prescription antaepressants?Round your answer to 2 decimal places.(b what is the probability that an adult visited a therapist during the past year, given that he or she used non-prescription antidepressants? Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

An adult who visited a therapist during the past year is randomly selected. what is the probability this adult used non-prescription antaepressants?Round your a class=

Answer :

We will answer the question a) using the following formula:

[tex]P(N|T)=\frac{P(N\cap T)}{P(T)}[/tex]

where we have the following event:

[tex]\begin{gathered} N=\text{ Adult use non-prescription antidepressants} \\ T=Adult\text{ visit a therapist} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Therefore, the probability P(N|T) is the probability of a randomly selected adult use non-prescription antidepressants given that he visited the therapist. This formula is known as conditional probability formula.

To use the formula, we have to calculate the probability :

[tex]P(N\text{ }\cap T)[/tex]

This is the probability of the intersection between the events N and T, that is, the probability that a given adult visits a therapist and use non-prescription antidepressants. Thsi information was given in the question, so we have

[tex]P(N\cap T)=21\%=0.21[/tex]

Therefore, we can calculate the probability required in the part a) as :

[tex]P(N|T)=\frac{P(N\cap T)}{P(T)}=\frac{21\%\text{ }}{26\%}=\frac{0.21}{0.26}\approx0.81=81\%\text{ }[/tex]

Therefore, the answer for the part a) is 81%, or in decimal number 0.81.

Part b)

We are asked to calculate the probability of that a randomly selected patient who use non-prescription antidepressants visit the therapist. This can be written in symbols as (we use the notations from the solution of the part a))

[tex]P(T|N)=\frac{P(T\cap N)}{P(N)}=\frac{21\%}{43\%}=\frac{0.21}{0.43}\approx0.49=49\%\text{ }[/tex]

Therefore, the answer for the part b) is 49%, or in decimal number 0.49.

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