A Large National Retailer of Electronics Conducted a Survey to Determine

question 21

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A large national retailer of electronics conducted a survey to determine consumer preferences
For various brands of digital cameras and the data are summarized in the table shown below. $$\begin{array} { | c | c | c | c | } \hline & \text { Female } & \text { Male } & \text { Total } \\\hline \text { Cannon Power Shot } & 73 & 59 & \mathbf { 1 3 2 } \\\hline \text { Nikon Cool Pix } & 49 & 47 & \mathbf { 9 6 } \\\hline \text { Sony Cyber Shot } & 58 & 33 & \mathbf { 9 1 } \\\hline \text { Panasonic Lumix } & 35 & 30 & \mathbf { 6 5 } \\\hline \text { Fujifilm Finepix } & 45 & 28 & \mathbf { 7 3 } \\\hline \text { Olympus S/V } & 37 & 41 & \mathbf { 7 8 } \\\hline \text { Other Brands } & 86 & 67 & \mathbf { 1 5 3 } \\\hline \text { Total } & \mathbf { 3 8 3 } & \mathbf { 3 0 5 } & \mathbf { 6 8 8 } \\\hline\end{array}$$
The percentage of consumers who are male and prefer Fujifilm is

• A)44.3 % (305/688).
• B)10.6% (73/688).
• C)38.4% (28/73).
• D)56.2% (41/73).
• E)4.1% (28/688).

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