SOLUTION: A company has a total of 596 male employees. Of them, 117 are single, 293 are married, 140 are either divorced or separated, and 46 are widowers. If management selects one male emp
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Question 1168531: A company has a total of 596 male employees. Of them, 117 are single, 293 are married, 140 are either divorced or separated, and 46 are widowers. If management selects one male employee at random from the company, the probability (rounded to three decimal places) that this employee is married or a widower is: Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, kkth19:Answer by ikleyn(52777) (Show Source):
Start the solution by noticing that 117 + 293 + 140 + 46 = 596.
It means that all listed subsets in the problem are disjoint.
Based on it, the rest of the solution is very simple:
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| Add the married and widowers and relate the sum to the total. |
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If you make these calculations correctly, you will get the answer.
