Describe the distribution of total personal income

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Income and gender. The relative frequency table below displays the distribution of annual total personal income (in 2009 inflation-adjusted dollars) for a representative sample of 96,420,486 Americans. These data come from the American Community Survey for 2005-2009. This sample is comprised of 59% males and 41% females.69

(a) Describe the distribution of total personal income.

(b) What is the probability that a randomly chosen US resident makes less than $50,000 per year?

(c) What is the probability that a randomly chosen US resident makes less than $50,000 per year and is female? Note any assumptions you make.

(d) The same data source indicates that 71.8% of females make less than $50,000 per year. Use this value to determine whether or not the assumption you made in part (c) is valid.

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