12.42 Collegedegrees. Exercise 12.41 gives the counts (in thousands) of earned d

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12.42 Collegedegrees.Exercise 12.41gives the counts (in thousands) of earned degrees in the UnitedStates in the 2005–2006 academic year. Use these data toanswer the following questions.

(a) What is the probability that a randomlychosen degree recipient is a man?

(b) What is the conditionalprobability that the person chosen received a bachelor’sdegree, given that he is a man?

(c) Use the multiplication rule to find theprobability of choosing amale bachelor’s degree recipient. Check your result byfinding this probability directly from thetable of counts.

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