What is the probability that the person you choose is woman

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Academic degrees and gender. Here are the projected numbers (in thousands) of earned degrees in the United States in the 2010-2011 academic year, classified by level and by the gender of the degree recipient:

	Bachelor's	Master's	Professional	Doctorate
Female	933	402	51	26
Male	661	260	44	26

(a) Convert this table to a table giving the probabilities for selecting a degree earned and classifying the recipient by gender and degree.

(b) If you choose a degree recipient at random, what is the probability that the person you choose is a woman?

(c) What is the conditional probability that you choose a woman given that the person chosen received a professional degree?

(d) Are the events "choose a woman" and "choose a professional degree recipient" independent? How do you know?

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