SOLUTION: A small town has 5,636 residents. The residents in the town were asked whether or not they favored building a new bridge across the river. You are given the following information o
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Question 1134596: A small town has 5,636 residents. The residents in the town were asked whether or not they favored building a new bridge across the river. You are given the following information on the residents' responses, broken down by sex.
Questions to be solved :
b. What is the probability that a randomly selected resident is a man and is in favor of building the bridge?
c. What is the probability that a randomly selected resident is a man?
d. What is the probability that a randomly selected resident is in favor of building the bridge?
e. What is the probability that a randomly selected resident is a man or in favor of building the bridge?
f. A randomly selected resident turns out to be male. Compute the probability that he is in favor of building the bridge.
Answer by ikleyn(52797) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The condition is SELF-CONTRADICTORY.
From one side, it refers to some "following information".
From the other side, nothing follows and information is absent.
Read your post and think a minute before posting it.
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