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Below are listed the numbers of engineers in various fields by sex. Choose one engineer at random. Find . MechanicalElectricalBiomedicalMale9,6014,3576,318Female2,0391,1815,168

Below are listed the numbers of engineers in various fields by sex. Choose one engineer-example-1
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The number of male engineers is:


9601+4357+6318=20276

4357 of them are electrical engineers, then the probability of choosing an electrical engineer given that he is male is:


P(\text{electrical}|\text{male})=(4357)/(20276)\approx0.2149

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