A company has both male and female employees. The company has shirts and jackets with the company logo to give away to employees. For each of the company's 205 employees, a manager asked which piece of clothing the employee prefers. The preferences, based on gender, are summarized in the table below. Shirt Jacket Male 59 68 Female 48 30 Suppose an employee of the company is chosen at random. Answer each part. Do not round intermediate computations, and round your answers to the nearest hundredth. (If necessary, consult a list of formulas.) (a)What is the probability that the employee is male? (b)What is the probability that the employee is male or prefers a shirt?

A company has both male and female employees. The company has shirts and jackets with the company logo to give away to employees. For each of the company's 205 employees, a manager asked which piece of clothing the employee prefers. The preferences, based on gender, are summarized in the table below. Shirt Jacket Male 59 68 Female 48 30 Suppose an employee of the company is chosen at random. Answer each part. Do not round intermediate computations, and round your answers to the nearest hundredth. (If necessary, consult a list of formulas.) (a)What is the probability that the employee is male? (b)What is the probability that the employee is male or prefers a shirt?

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A company has both male and female employees. The company has shirts and jackets with the company logo to give away to employees. For each of the company's

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employees, a manager asked which piece of clothing the employee prefers. The preferences, based on gender, are summarized in the table below.

	Shirt	Jacket
Male	59	68
Female	48	30

Suppose an employee of the company is chosen at random.
Answer each part. Do not round intermediate computations, and round your answers to the nearest hundredth.

(If necessary, consult a list of formulas.)

(a)What is the probability that the employee is male?

(b)What is the probability that the employee is male or prefers a shirt?

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