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05:54"Finding Conditional Probabilities In Exercises 7 and 8, use the table to find each conditional probability.
8. Retirement Savings The table shows the results of a survey in which 250 male and 250 female workers ages 25 to 64 were asked if they contribute to a retirement savings plan at
work.
a. Find the probability that a randomly selected worker contributes to a retirement savings plan at work, given that the worker is male.
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50. Investment Committee A company has 200 employees, consisting of 144 women and 56 men. The company wants to select five employees to serve as an investment committee.
a. Use technology to find the number of ways that 5 employees can be selected from 200.
Finding Conditional Probabilities In Exercises 7 and 8, use the table to find each conditional probability.
7. Business Degrees The table shows the numbers of male and female students in the United States who received bachelor's degrees in business and nonbusiness fields in a recent year. (Source: National Center for Educational Statistics)
a. Find the probability that a randomly selected bachelor's degree-earning student is male, given that the degree is in business.
66. Access Code An access code consists of six characters. For each character, any letter or number can be used, with the exceptions that the first character cannot be 0 and the last two characters must be odd numbers.
a. What is the probability of randomly selecting the correct access code on the first try?
"Using the Multiplication Rule In Exercises 19-32, use the Multiplication Rule.
21. BRCA1 Gene Research has shown that approximately 1 woman in 400 carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene. About 64% of women with this mutation develop breast
cancer. Find the probability that a randomly selected woman will carry the mutation of the BRCA1 gene and will develop breast cancer. (Source: National Cancer Institute)
"1. What is the difference between independent and dependent events?
