SOLUTION: In a town of 900 people, 400 are employed of which 300 are men,and 100 are women, if there are 600 men in d town,wat is d probability of pikin a person being a woman or unemployed

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Question 1108402: In a town of 900 people, 400 are employed of which 300 are men,and 100 are women, if there are 600 men in d town,wat is d probability of pikin a person being a woman or unemployed
Answer by ikleyn(52874)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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1.  The set  {woman OR unemployed}  is equal to the set  {women + unemployed man}.

    The last set is the union of two disjoint sets, which is easier to analyse.



2.  From the condition, there are 300 = 900 - 600 women in the town.

    The number of unemployed man is 600 - 300 = 300.



3.  So, the set  {women + unemployed man}  consists of 300 + 300 = 600 persons.


    Now the probability under the question = (women + unemploeyed man)/(total population) =  = .


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