Question 4.32

4.32 Demographics—language.

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:10

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Language English French Sino-Tibetan Other
Probability 0.581 0.217 0.033 ?

  1. What probability should replace “?” in the distribution?
  2. Only English and French are considered official languages. What is the probability that a randomly chosen Canadian's mother tongue is not an official language?