A Small Town Has 6500 Adult Males and 5000 Adult

question 71

Multiple Choice

A small town has 6500 adult males and 5000 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 is male M? ​

• A)Pr(M) = 0.4348
• B)Pr(M) = 0.5652
• C)Pr(M) = 0.1304
• D)Pr(M) = 0.2308
• E)Pr(M) = 0.3538