Question

A political candidate wanted to understand what issues were important to their voters. They asked 1000 voters, "Which issue is the most important: crime, city planning, or health care?" The results of the survey are shown in the two-way table below:


Crime City Planning Health Care
Male 118 239 458
Female 418 317 449


What is the probability that a person chosen at random from this survey is concerned about crime given that they are male? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

5.9%

14.5%

22.0%

26.8%

Answer 1

@gudden @amistre64

Answer 2

So, Whats your guess ?

Answer 3

@thomaster

Answer 4

I don't know the formula

Answer 5

formula for what Probability or the one used for converting it to the Percentage ?

Answer 6

probability

Answer 7

i did 118/1000 but the answer isn't there

Answer 8

Probability
= no. of desired outcomes / total numver of Outcomes..

Answer 9

no there's more specific formulas

Answer 10

so what would we plug in

Answer 11

Well, 'specific' formula!!
Idk that Probability had some other formula too!

Answer 12

this lesson is called conditional probability

Answer 13

what is ur guess

Answer 14

Sorry! Actually I got a confusion too!
And I got none to post it for me... :'(
Am stuck with that one....!!

Answer 15

@hartnn

Answer 16

@iPwnBunnies @Snoopy_Lascano

Answer 17

@timo86m