document.write( "Question 1175345: Fifty chief executive officers of small to medium-sized companies were classified according to their gender and functional background as shown in the table below:
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\n" ); document.write( "Total 32 18 50
\n" ); document.write( "a. If a chief executive is randomly selected from this group, what is the probability that the executive is a female? [2]
\n" ); document.write( "b. What is the probability that a randomly selected executive from this group is a male whose functional background is marketing? [2]
\n" ); document.write( "c. Assume that an executive is selected, and you are told that the executive’s functional background was in operations. What is the probability that this executive is a female? [2]
\n" ); document.write( "d. Assume that an executive is selected, and you are told that the executive is a female. What is the probability the executive’s functional area is marketing? [2]
\n" ); document.write( "e. Are gender and functional background independent for this set of executives? [2]\r
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document.write( "	Male	Female	T\r\n" );
document.write( "M	4	10	14\r\n" );
document.write( "F	11	5	16\r\n" );
document.write( "O	17	3	20\r\n" );
document.write( "T	32	18	50\r\n" );
document.write( "a. P(female)    = 18/50\r\n" );
document.write( "b. P(Male & M)  = 4/50\r\n" );
document.write( "c. P(Female |O) = 3/20\r\n" );
document.write( "d. P(O |Female )= 3/18\r\n" );
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