4.28 French and English in Canada. Canada has two official languages, English and French. Choose a Canadian at random and ask, “What is your mother tongue?” Here is the distribution of responses, combining many separate languages from the broad Asian/Pacific region:8
Language | English | French | Asian/Pacific | Other |
Probability | 0.59 | ? | 0.07 | 0.11 |
(a) What probability should replace “?” in the distribution?
(b) What is the probability that a Canadian’s mother tongue is not English? Explain how you computed your answer.