SOLUTION: Please help me solve probability question.
Thirty nine (39) workers in a large office can be classified as follows:
Clerk Administrator
Men 4 6
Women 21 8
If one worker is se
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Thirty nine (39) workers in a large office can be classified as follows:
Clerk Administrator
Men 4 6
Women 21 8
If one worker is se
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Question 1082091: Please help me solve probability question.
Thirty nine (39) workers in a large office can be classified as follows:
Clerk Administrator
Men 4 6
Women 21 8
If one worker is selected at random from these 39:
Find P(Woman or clerk) Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Probability a women can be chosen is 29 / 39
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Probability a clerk is chosen is 25 / 39
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Probability(a women or a clerk is chosen) = 29/39 + 25/39 - 21/39 = 33/39 = 11/13
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Note we had to subtract the women that are clerks
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