SOLUTION: In a residential colony,60% of the people are males.if 5% of males are children (boys) and 10% of females are children (girls),the probability that a child selected at random happe

Question 1041746: In a residential colony,60% of the people are males.if 5% of males are children (boys) and 10% of females are children (girls),the probability that a child selected at random happens to be a boy is what ?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Here's my assumption.
60% male
40% female
Of those,
5% of 60% are male children.
10% of 40% are female children.
So if there are 100 people total,
60 are males, of those 57 are adult males, 3 are child males.
40 are females, of those 36 are adult females, 4 are child females.
So then the probability of being a child male (boy) is,

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