Find the odds against a randomly chosen household having a cat if the probability of the event that a randomly chosen household has a cat is 0.31. the odds against a randomly selected household having a cat are :

We want to know the odds against a randomly chosen house having a cat. If you chose a random house, you have a probability of 0.31 of finding a cat there, then you also have a probability of 0.79 for not finding a cat there.

then the odds against selecting a random house with a cat is 0.79, writing it as a ratio we get 79:100, so in 79 of each 100 houses are cat-less.

4.5%

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