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3.4 Exercise 5

Avg difficulty 2.5

c. Find the probability that a person is male given that the person prefers hiking near lakes and streams. Let M = being male, and let L = prefers hiking near lakes and streams.

  1. What word tells you this is a conditional?
  2. Is the sample space for this problem all 100 hikers? If not, what is it?
  3. Fill in the blanks and calculate the probability: P(_____|_____) = _____.

OpenStax Statistics, 3.4 Contingency Tables, exercise 5

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