Answer to Question #105086 in Statistics and Probability for Miami Sambajon

Question

A school anniversary committee is to be selected from all its employee. There are 21 male where 16 are faculty members and 5 are non-teaching personnel, and 39 are female where 24 are teachers and 15 are non teaching personnel. What is the probability that the first person selected is male?

Answer 1

$Total=21+39=60$

What is the probability that the first person selected is male?

$$P(first\ male)={21\over60}={7\over20}=0.35$$