Question

the accompanying table shows the numbers of male and female students in a certain region who received bachelors degrees in a certain field in a recent year. a student is selected at random. find the probability of each event listed in parts (a) through (c) below.

(a) the student is male or received a degree in the field
the probability is 0.502.
(type an integer or a decimal. round to three decimal places as needed.)

(b) the student is female or received a degree outside of the field
the probability is .
(type an integer or a decimal. round to three decimal places as needed.)

table:

	degrees in field	degrees outside of field	total
females	135,819	887,215	1,023,034
total	308,725	1,471,649	1,780,374

Explanation:

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Answer:

(b) The student is female or received a degree outside of the field

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