A person is randomly selected. What is the probability that the person is: a) Male? b) Male and a Democrat? c) Male given that the person is a Democrat?

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Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability
Section8.7: Probability
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In a survey of 183 people, the following data were obtained relating gender to political orientation:

  Republican (R) Democrat (D) Libertarian (L) Total
Male (M) 60 21 18 99
Femal (F) 23 52 9 84
Total 83 73 27 183


A person is randomly selected. What is the probability that the person is:
a) Male?
b) Male and a Democrat?
c) Male given that the person is a Democrat?
d) Republican given that the person is Male?
e) Female given that the person is a Libertarian?
f) Are the events Male and Republican independent?

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