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PSAT 1.5 Math Diagnostic. What is the probability that a woman over the age of 25 with a Bachelor's Degree earned her degree in either the field of Arts and Humanities or Education?


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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by bachelor's degrees Sadly they don't always

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come with a rose Check out the stable on no

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people have seen it according to the table What is

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the probability that a woman over the age of twenty

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five with a bachelor's degree earned her degree in either

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the field of arts and humanities or in education and

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here's a potential answers All right probability gotta lot numbers

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here think about percentages and all that Wait a minute

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Why aren't these women earning bachelor read degrees Is that

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not a thing All right reality television has gotten us

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totally turned around all right So we're given a table

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showing the degrees earned by some surveyed men and women

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and we're told that everyone surveyed is over twenty five

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so we don't even have to worry about that part

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of the problem don't need to check anyone's ideas the

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door questions asking us what the probability is that a

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woman's degree is in the arts and humanities or education

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as opposed to science and engineering business or the mysterious

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other category when finding a probability we're looking for a

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certain number out of the hole For example when we're

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rolling and die we have a one in six chance

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of rolling a five because there's only one five and

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six sides of the dye Likewise in this scenario we're

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going to need to figure out how many women fall

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into two categories were interested in and then divide that

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by the total number of women surveyed Unfortunately we're going

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to be dealing with numbers that are a tad larger

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than in our example it's as if we're working with

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the four hundred twenty one thousand one hundred ninety one

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sided die your heart out dungeons dragons All right first

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up let's add together all the women who got their

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degree in the arts and humanities and those who went

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the education room So forty nine thousand fifty three plus

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two hundred three thousand six hundred eighty one equals two

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hundred fifty two thousand seven hundred forty four Now looking

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at the total row with the bottom we can see

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that all together one hundred twenty one thousand one hundred

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ninety one women were surveyed so we take two hundred

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two thousand seven hundred forty four Divide that by four

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hundred twenty one thousand one hundred one and we get

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almost exactly zero point six or sixty percent which is

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option d and the survey says we totally nailed it

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