SOLUTION: An aquarium at a pet store contains 40 orange sword fish (22 female and 18 males) and 28 green swordfish (12 females and 16 males). You randomly net one of the fish:
a. What is
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a. What is
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Question 445670: An aquarium at a pet store contains 40 orange sword fish (22 female and 18 males) and 28 green swordfish (12 females and 16 males). You randomly net one of the fish:
a. What is the probability that it is an orange swordfish?
b. What is the probability that it is a male fish?
c. What is the probability that it is an orange female swordfish?
d. What is the probability that it is a female or a green swordtail?
e. Are the events “male” and “female” mutually exclusive? Explain
f. Are the events “male” and “swordfish” mutually exclusive? Explain
You can put this solution on YOUR website! An aquarium at a pet store contains 40 orange sword fish (22 female and 18 males) and 28 green swordfish (12 females and 16 males). You randomly net one of the fish:
a. What is the probability that it is an orange swordfish?
Ans: 40/68
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b. What is the probability that it is a male fish?
Ans: (18+16)/68 = 34/68
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c. What is the probability that it is an orange female swordfish?
Ans: 22/68
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d. What is the probability that it is a female or a green swordtail?
Ans 12/68
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e. Are the events “male” and “female” mutually exclusive? Explain
Yes; no fish can be both.
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f. Are the events “male” and “swordfish” mutually exclusive? Explain
No; there are fish that are male and swordfish ================================================
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