A Small Town Has 8500 Adult Males and 5500 Adult

question 161

Multiple Choice

A small town has 8500 adult males and 5500 adult females. A sociologist conducted a survey and found that 40% of the males and 30% of the females drink heavily. An adult is selected at random from the town. What is the probability, rounded to four decimal places, that the person drinks heavily DH? ​

• A)Pr(DH) = 0.3607
• B)Pr(DH) = 0.3393
• C)Pr(DH) = 0.6357
• D)Pr(DH) = 0.1179
• E)Pr(DH) = 0.7250

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