document.write( "Question 1041746: In a residential colony,60% of the people are males.if 5% of males are children (boys) and 10% of females are children (girls),the probability that a child selected at random happens to be a boy is what ? \n" ); document.write( "

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Here's my assumption.
\n" ); document.write( "60% male
\n" ); document.write( "40% female
\n" ); document.write( "Of those,
\n" ); document.write( "5% of 60% are male children.
\n" ); document.write( "10% of 40% are female children.
\n" ); document.write( "So if there are 100 people total,
\n" ); document.write( "60 are males, of those 57 are adult males, 3 are child males.
\n" ); document.write( "40 are females, of those 36 are adult females, 4 are child females.
\n" ); document.write( "So then the probability of being a child male (boy) is,
\n" ); document.write( " $\"P=3%2F100\"$
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