SOLUTION: In a study designed to gauge married women's participation in the workplace today, the table shown below are created from a sample of 750 randomly selected married women. Consider

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Question 539831: In a study designed to gauge married women's participation in the workplace today, the table shown below are created from a sample of 750 randomly selected married women. Consider a woman selected at random from this sample in answering the following questions.

Job status
Number of children No job Part-time Full-time Total
0 16 39 98 153
1 86 59 126 271
2 163 80 83 326
Total 265 178 307 750

What is the probability that this randomly selected woman has a job outside the home?
What is the probability that this randomly selected woman has at least one child?
What is the probability that this randomly selected woman has a full-time job and no more than one child?
This woman turns out to have one child. What is the probability that she has a part-time job?
This woman turns out to have a part-time job. What is the probability that she has one child?

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
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In a study designed to gauge married women's participation in the workplace today, the table shown below are created from a sample of 750 randomly selected married women. Consider a woman selected at random from this sample in answering the following questions.

Job status
Number of children No job Part-time Full-time Total
0 16 39 98 153
1 86 59 126 271
2 163 80 83 326
Total 265 178 307 750
the prob that a woman has a job? (178+307)/750
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the prob that a woman has at least one child? (750-153)/750
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the prob that a woman has a full-time job and no more than one child?1 126/750
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A woman has one child. What is the prob that she has a part-time job? 59/271
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A woman has a part-time job. What is the prob that she has one child? 126/307
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Stan H.