Question

The table displays the results of a survey of eating preferences of a sample of high school students. Use the data in the two-way frequency table below to answer the following questions. Vegetarian 12 Not a Vegetarian 38 Total 50 Male Female 17 33 50 Total 29 71 100 2. **In the context of the data, interpret the conditional relative frequency of 50 3. Identify the following % as joint relative, conditional relative or marginal relative frequency and explain why. "17% of students surveyed were female vegetarians?"

Answer 1

For this case we can do the following:

Part 2

17/50 represent the conditional probability of being vegetarian given that the person selected is female

Part 3

17% of students surveyed were female vegetarians

Is a joint relative since represent the % of vegetarians and female in all the sample