SOLUTION: On the first day of school, the teacher randomly selects 1 of his 28 students and records the student�s gender. If there are 7 males and 13 females, what is the chance that a femal

Question 1075126: On the first day of school, the teacher randomly selects 1 of his 28 students and records the student�s gender. If there are 7 males and 13 females, what is the chance that a female will be selected?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Since there are 28 students and 13 of them are female, the probability that a female will be selected is

. Then there is a

probability that the student will be a male, and a

probability that the student selected will be in some stage of the transgender process such that, at the time of the selection, the student was neither male nor female.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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