Solved: Multiple choice: Select the best answer for Exercises 27 to 34. Exercises 27 to

QUESTION:

Exercises 27 to 30 refer to the following setting. The National Survey of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked: “What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next ten years?” Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender:

\(\begin{array}{lcc} \hline & \text { Female } & \text { Male } \\ \text { Almost no chance } & 119 & 103 \\ \text { Some chance, but probably not } & 150 & 171 \\ \text { A 50-50 chance } & 447 & 512 \\ \text { A good chance } & 735 & 710 \\ \text { Almost certain } & 1174 & 756 \\ \hline \end{array}\)

Your percent from the previous exercise is part of

(a) the marginal distribution of gender.

(b) the marginal distribution of opinion about marriage.

(c) the conditional distribution of gender among adolescents with a given opinion.

(d) the conditional distribution of opinion among adolescents of a given gender.

(e) the conditional distribution of Almost certain among females.