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Solved: Doctor Specialties Below are listed the numbers of
Chapter 4, Problem 32(choose chapter or problem)
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:Step 1 of 4
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