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Question 933710: Hello! I am taking nite math and the teacher never showed
us a problem like this ( Only cards, dice and urns) and expects us to know how t
o do it. please help! The Question:
Suppose 5 men out of 100 and 25 woman out of 10,000 are colorblind. A colorbl
ind person is chosen at random. What is the probability of his being male? (Ass
ume males and females to be in equal numbers) I don't understand what the sa
mple space is. Is it 10,000 or 10,000 twice? Please just show me how you solve th
is problem with the answer so that I can understand what type of probability pro
blem this is and be able to solve any like it. Thanks so much!! Stacy
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Answer by ewatrrr(23220)

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You can put this solution on YOUR website!
p(M cb) = 5/100 = .05, p(F cb) = 25/10,000 = .0025
......

P(A|B) = P(A and B)/P(B)

P(M | cb) = .05/.0525
P(cb)=(Adding .05 + .0025)

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