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5. Women in Movies In a recent year, speaking characters in movies were 68.2% male. Wh

is the probability of randomly selecting a character with a speaking part and getting a femal
What should be the value of that probability?
Find the indicated complements

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Answer: The probability of randomly selecting a character with a speaking part and getting a female character can be found by subtracting the percentage of male speaking characters from 100% and converting it to a decimal:

P(female speaking character) = 100% - 68.2% = 31.8% = 0.318

Therefore, the probability of randomly selecting a female speaking character is 0.318.

The complement of an event is the probability of the event not happening. So the indicated complements would be:

The probability of randomly selecting a character with a speaking part and getting a male character:

P(male speaking character) = 68.2% = 0.682

The probability of randomly selecting a character with a speaking part and not getting a female character:

P(not female speaking character) = P(male speaking character) = 68.2% = 0.682

Explanation:

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