Home
Class 12
MATHS
A recent survey reported that 60 percent...

A recent survey reported that 60 percent of the students at a high school are girls and 65 percent of girls at this school play a sport. If a student at this high school were selected at random, what is the probability that the student is a girl who plays a sport?

A

0.1

B

0.21

C

0.32

D

0.42

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The correct Answer is:
D
The probability that a student is a girl at this high school is 0.6. The probability that a student who plays a sport is a girl is 0.65. Therefore, the probability that a girl student plays a sport is (0.6)(0.65)=0.39. [22]
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

A class has 20 girls and 16 boys. One student is selected at random. Find the probability that the student is a girl.

Question 4-6 refer to the above table, which summarizes the result of a survey of the student body of a high school about club membership in which each student enrolled in the high school enumerated the clubs in which they were members. Q. If a students is selected at random, what is the probability that the student does not belong to 3 or more clubs?

Question 4-6 refer to the above table, which summarizes the result of a survey of the student body of a high school about club membership in which each student enrolled in the high school enumerated the clubs in which they were members. Q. If a student is selected at random, what is the probability that the student is either a 9th grade student or belongs to 3 or more clubs?

A class has 12 boys and 4 girls. If three students are selected at random from the class, what is the probability that all will be boys?

43 % of the students in a school are girls. If the number of boys is 1482, find : number of girls in the school.

The table above shows the distribution of the gender and the language studied of the 30 students in an after-school language program. If a student is chosen at random, what is the probability that the student will be either a boy studying French or a girl studying Spanish?

43 % of the students in a school are girls. If the number of boys is 1482, find : The total strength of the school

45% of the students in a school are boys. If the total number of students in the school is 880, find the number of girls in the school.

In a class of 50 students, 20 are boys and rest are girls. A student is selected at random. Find the probability of selecting a boy.

In a group of students , there are 3 boys and 3 girls . Four students are to be selected at random from the group . Find the probability that either 3 boys and 1 girl or 3 girls and 1 boy are selected .

ENGLISH SAT-MODEL TEST 3-MCQ
  1. When a certain radioactive elements decays, the amount at any time t c...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. If n is an integer, what is the remainder when 3x^(2n+3)-4x^(2n+2)+5x^...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. Four men A,B,C and D, line up in a row. What is the probability that m...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. overset(10)underset(i=3)sum5

    Text Solution

    |

  5. The graph of y^4-3x^2+7=0 is symmetric with respect to which of the fo...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. In a group of 30 students, 20 take French, 15 take Spanish, and 5 take...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. If f(x)=x^2 , then (f(x+h)-f(x))/(h)=

    Text Solution

    |

  8. The plane Whose equation is 5x+6y+10z=30 forms a pyramid in the first ...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. What is the range of the function f(x)=3/(x-5)-1?

    Text Solution

    |

  10. Given the set of data 1,1,2,2,2,3,3,x,y, where x and y represent two d...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. If f(x)=sqrt(2x+3) and g(x)=x^2 , for what value (s) of x does f(g(x))...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. If 3x-x^2ge2 and y^2+yle2, then

    Text Solution

    |

  13. In /\ABC, if sin A=1/3 and sin B=1/4, sin C=

    Text Solution

    |

  14. The solution set of (|x-1|)/(x)gt2 is

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Suppose the graph of f(x)=-x^3+2 is translated 2 units right and 3 uni...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. In the figure above, the bases , ABC and DEF, of the right prism are e...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. The range of the piecewise function f(x) ={:{(3(x-1)^2-2,"if",x lt 6...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. The length of the major axis of the ellipse 3x^2+2y^2-6x8y-1=0 is

    Text Solution

    |

  19. A recent survey reported that 60 percent of the students at a high sch...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. If x-7 divides x^3-3k^3x^2-13x-7 , then k=

    Text Solution

    |