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Given that approximately 86.5% of Americans commute to work by car, truck, or van. Out of that group, 84.6% drive alone and 15.4% drive in a carpool. Approximately 3.9% walk to work and approximately 5.3% take public transportation.

The main objective is to construct a table or a tree diagram of the situation. Include a branch for all other modes of transportation to work.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The contingency table decribes the way displying a data that can be used in calculating probabilities, 

The table displays sample values in relation to two different variables that may be dependent or contingent on one another.
Given 86.5% commute to work by car, truck, or van.
Out of that group, 84.6% drive alone and 15.4% drive in a carpool.
Drive in not alone:  
Drive alone:   
The total will of is .
 
Now the below table provides the relation between the people and the transpotations:
 
 

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