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QUESTION:

Doctor Specialties Below are listed the numbers of doctors in various specialties by gender.

                                                   

Choose 1 doctor at random.

a. Find P (malepediatrician).

b. Find P (pathologist|female).

c. Are the characteristics “female” and “pathologist” independent? Explain.

Source: World Almanac.

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QUESTION:

Doctor Specialties Below are listed the numbers of doctors in various specialties by gender.

                                                   

Choose 1 doctor at random.

a. Find P (malepediatrician).

b. Find P (pathologist|female).

c. Are the characteristics “female” and “pathologist” independent? Explain.

Source: World Almanac.

ANSWER:

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The total number of doctors in this sample is the sum of all the cells in the given table and it is

In choosing a random doctor from the sample choosing each of the 124,645 doctors is an equally likely event The rule for conditional probability is

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