SOLUTION: 100 fourth graders were surveyed and asked if they liked math. 42 of the students who said 'yes' were female. of the 32 students who said 'no', 28 were male. a. if you selected on

Question 860248: 100 fourth graders were surveyed and asked if they liked math. 42 of the students who said 'yes' were female. of the 32 students who said 'no', 28 were male.
a. if you selected one of the surveyed students at random, whats the probability that student would be male?
b. if you selected one of the female surveyed students at random, whats the probability that she would have answered 'no' to the question?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

 

Hi,

always recommend quickly assembling a data from info given

	yes	no

male	26	28    54

female	42	4     46

	68	32    100

a) P(male) = 54/100 = 17/50

b) P(no|female) =   

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