A magazine has 1,200,000 subscribers , of whom 400,000 are women and 800,000 are men . Twenty percent of the women and 60 percent of the men read the advertisements in the magazine . What is the probability that a randomly selected subscriber reads the advertisements ?

Options

A. `0.30`
B. `0.36`
C. `0.40`
D. `0.47`

Answer

D

Explanation

Twenty percent of 400,000 women is 80,000 , and 60% of 800,000 men is 480,000 . Altogether 560,000 subscribers read ads , or about 47%.