Chapter 5, Problem 41SE

Equal Rights for Women (Example 10) A recent Pew Research poll asked respondents to fill in the blank to this question: “The country ____ when it comes to giving equal rights to women” with one of three choices. The results are shown in the following table using a sample size of 100 men and 100 women.

a. A person is selected randomly from only the women in the group. We want to find the

probability that a female responded, “Has been about right.” Which of the following

statements best describes the question?

i. P(Has been about right $|$ female)

ii. P(female $|$ has been about right)

iii. P(female and responded “has been about right”)

b. Find the probability that a person randomly selected from only the women in this group who

responded “has been about right.”