The Contingency Table Below Provides a Joint Frequency Distribution for a Random

question 54

Multiple Choice

The contingency table below provides a joint frequency distribution for a random sample of patients at a hospital classified by blood type and sex.
If a person is selected at random from the sample,find the probability that the person has blood type A and is female.

• A)0.746
• B)0.590
• C)0.244
• D)0.990
• E)0.422

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