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one more in probability

by Gopaleie2k4 » Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:05 pm
In a survey for 248 people,156 are married,70 are self employed and 25 percent of those who married are self employed.if a person is to be randomly selected from those sureveyed.what is the probability that the person selected will be self employed but not married ?

Ans. 1/8

Need explanation pls.
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Re: one more in probability

by muzali » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:40 pm
Gopaleie2k4 wrote:In a survey for 248 people,156 are married,70 are self employed and 25 percent of those who married are self employed.if a person is to be randomly selected from those sureveyed.what is the probability that the person selected will be self employed but not married ?

Ans. 1/8

Need explanation pls.
total people = 248
Married (selfemployed + not selfemployed) = 156
25% of married are selfemployed, so this number is (25/100)*156 =39
self employed people total = 70
so self employed people who are not married = 70-39 = 31
Required probability = 31/248 = 1/8
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by rmpaes » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:21 pm
We can use a table to organize information given in otherwise confusing overlapping problem sets. We just carefully fill in the chart with the info.



---------------------self employed-------not self employed--------total
married---------------39----------------------------------------------156
not married-----------31-------------------------------------------------
total-------------------70---------------------------------------------------


We are told :25 percent of those who married are self employed. Thus,
156* 1/4 = 39. We can easily find out those not married and self employed by subtracting the total of those self employed from those that are married. This gives us 31.

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probability that the person selected will be self employed but not married = 31/248 = 1/8
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:22 am
I drew Venn Diagram..Hope it helps !!!!!
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by cwbeemer » Tue May 11, 2010 1:09 pm
I got confused when trying to find the probability because I thought that you had to find the probability that the person chosen would be 1st not married AND self employed.

So I did the following

(not married/total) * (self employed/total not married)
which is the same as (92/248) * 31/92)

I didn't know that I could just put self employed/total

Can you please expalin
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