SOLUTION: 32 of the 80 members of a club are married and of these, 8 are managers. There are 20 managers in total in the club. Find the probability that a person chosen at random is; i) a

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Question 1143803: 32 of the 80 members of a club are married and of these, 8 are managers. There are 20 managers in total in the club.
Find the probability that a person chosen at random is;
i) a married manager
ii) neither married, nor a manager

Answer by ikleyn(52778)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let M be the subset of members of a club that are married.  

    The number of members in this subset is n(M) = 32.


Let G be the subset of members of a club that are managers.

    The number of members in this subset is n(G) = 20.


The intersection  MG = (M & G)  are those members that are married and are managers.

    This subset has 8 persons : n(M & G) = 8.


(i)   Find the probability that a person chosen at random is a married manager equals  P =  =  = 0.1 = 10%.    ANSWER


(ii) The set of those who is EITHER married OR manager is the UNION of the sets M and G, i.e. (M U G).

     It has  n(M U G) elements,  n(M U G) = n(M) + n(G) - n(M & G) = 32 + 20 - 8 = 44.   (1)


    The rest of the members in the club are NEITHER married NOR managers,

    and their number is  80 - 44 = 36.    

    Therefore, the answer to ii) is  P =  =  = 0.45 = 45%.   ANSWER

All questions are answered -- the problem is solved.

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The proof of the formula (1) is easy: the number of elements of the union of any two finite subsets of a universal set
is always equal to the sum of elements of the subsets minus number of elements in their intersection.

On this subject, see the lesson
    - Counting elements in sub-sets of a given finite set
in this site.



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