Stay in school: In a recent school year in the state of Washington, there were 316,000 high school students. Of these, 151,000 were female and 165,000 were male. Among the females, 48,300 dropped out of school, and among the males, 10,300 dropped out. A student is chosen at random. Round the answers to four decimal places. (a) What is the probability that the student is male? (b) What is the probability that the student dropped out? (c) What is the probability that the student is male and dropped out? (d) Given that the student is male, what is the probability that he dropped out? (e) Given that the student dropped out, what is the probability that the student is male? Part 1 of 5

Stay in school: In a recent school year in the state of Washington, there were 316,000 high school students. Of these, 151,000 were female and 165,000 were male. Among the females, 48,300 dropped out of school, and among the males, 10,300 dropped out. A student is chosen at random. Round the answers to four decimal places. (a) What is the probability that the student is male? (b) What is the probability that the student dropped out? (c) What is the probability that the student is male and dropped out? (d) Given that the student is male, what is the probability that he dropped out? (e) Given that the student dropped out, what is the probability that the student is male? Part 1 of 5

College Algebra

7th Edition

ISBN:9781305115545

Author:James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson

Publisher:James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson

Chapter9: Counting And Probability

Section9.3: Binomial Probability

Problem 26E

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