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A group of 145 students at an elementary school were asked if they prefer the color orange to the color green. The resultsare shown in the table below. Given that a randomly selected survey participant is a male, what is the probability that thisstudent prefers the color green?

A group of 145 students at an elementary school were asked if they prefer the color-example-1
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Notice that there are 52 male students, and 16 of them prefer the color green. Since the survey was applied to 145 students in total,we have that the probability to select a male participant that prefers the color green is:


P(\text{male,green})=(16)/(145)

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