Five hundred employees were selected from a city's large private companies, andthey were asked whether or not they have any retirement benefits provided bytheir companies. Based on this information, the following two-way classificationtable was prepared.GenderHave retirement benefitsYesNoMen22575Women15050If one employee is selected at random from these 500 employees, find theprobability that this Employee(a) has retirement benefits(b) is a woman given that she does not have a retirement benefits

The probability of an event E is given by: P(E) = (Number of favorable outcomes for event E / Total…

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