document.write( "Question 1208267: Good day. please help me solve this problem.
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\n" ); document.write( "iii. Working in Marketing, given that the employee is female? [3 Marks]
\n" ); document.write( "iv. A male employee? [2 Marks]
\n" ); document.write( "v. Working in Marketing or Human Resources? [3 Marks]
\n" ); document.write( "vi. A male or female employee? [3 Marks] \r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #846577 by Edwin McCravy(20054)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "Put one more column and one more row on your chart \r\n" );
document.write( "for Totals Across and Totals Down. The total of\r\n" );
document.write( "totals will be equal in the lower right hand corner. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Department        Male    Female  | Totals Across\r\n" );
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document.write( "Software Design    700       900  |    1600\r\n" );
document.write( "Hardware Design    300       550  |     850\r\n" );
document.write( "Marketing          800       500  |    1300\r\n" );
document.write( "Human Resources     40        60  |     100\r\n" );
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document.write( "Totals down       1840      2010  |    3850\r\n" );
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document.write( "That makes it easy to answer any of those:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Just find how many in each category and put it over 3850.\r\n" );
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document.write( "I'll do iii for you:\r\n" );
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iii. Working in Marketing, given that the employee is female?
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document.write( "500/3850 = 10/77 = 0.1298701299 = 12.99%, approximately.\r\n" );
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