Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an undergraduate or a graduate student. If P is the probability that a randomly selected participant will be a female graduate student, is P less than 1/2?

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Arianna Evans

Mathematics

27 July, 17:34

Each of the 50 students participating in a workshop is either an undergraduate or a graduate student. If P is the probability that a randomly selected participant will be a female graduate student, is P less than 1/2?

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Kierra Salas · Answer 1

We cannot say

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability in this kind of cases involves the division of the number of female graduate student by the total number of students which is 50.

In the question, we were only told that we either have an undergraduate or a graduate student. Unfortunately this does not furnish us with any numbers and thus we do not know the numerical strength of each classification class. As such we can not make an accurate or definitive prediction about the value of the probability.

If we were furnished with figures, we could try and make an effort to get the actual value for the probability