Question

A class consists of 28 women and 56 men. If a student is randomly selected, what is the probability that the student is a man?

Answer 1

In order to determine the probability of a random selected student to be a men, we need to divide the number of men by the number of all the students in the class. We have:

`\begin{gathered} p(\text{men)}=(56)/(28+56) \\ p(\text{men)}=(56)/(84) \\ p(\text{men)}=0.67 \end{gathered}`

The probability of a random student being a man is approximately 67%.