Marital status can be categorized into: never married, married, widowed or divorced.
According to Infoplease.com, the following are the probabilities of those marital status categories for adults in the United States (data from 2000):
Marital Status | Never Married | Married | Widowed | Divorced |
Probability | 0.239 | 0.595 | 0.068 | ? |
According to the information that is provided, the probability of a randomly chosen U.S. adult being divorced is: