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11.7.39 EQuestion Help Consider a political discussion group consisting of 4 Dem

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11.7.39 EQuestion Help Consider a political discussion group consisting of 4 Democrats, 8Republicans, and 6 Independents. Suppose that two group members are randomly selected, in succession, to attend a political convention. Find the probability of selecting a Democrat and then a Republican. mype an integer or a simplified fraction.) Enter your answer in the answer box and then click Check Answer. All parts showing This course (004 General Education Mathemation) is based on Blitzer: Thinking Mathematically. 6e Pearson

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Total number of members: 4+8+6 = 18

Number of ways of selecting one democrat then one republican is

(4/18) * (8/17 ) = 0.1046

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Out of 51.9 millions of never married persons, 23.3 are female so requried probability is

P(female|never married) = 23.3 / 51.9 = 0.4489