Does it pay to ask for a raise? A national survey of heads of households showed the percentage of those who asked for a raise and the percentage who got one. According to the survey, of the men interviewed, 21% had asked for a raise and 60% of the men who had asked for a raise received the raise. If a man is selected at random from the survey population of men, find the following probabilities. (Enter your answers to three decimal places.)

a) P(man asked for a raise) = 0.21.

b) P(man received raise, given he asked for one) = 0.6.

c) P(man asked for raise and received raise) = 0.126.

Step-by-step explanation:

Conditional Probability

We use the conditional probability formula to solve this question. It is

In which

P(B|A) is the probability of event B happening, given that A happened.

is the probability of both A and B happening.

P(A) is the probability of A happening.

Question a:

21% asked for a raise, so:

P(man asked for a raise) = 0.21.

Question b:

Event A: Asked for a raise.

Event B: Received a raise:

21% had asked for a raise and 60% of the men who had asked for a raise received the raise:

This means that , thus:

P(man received raise, given he asked for one) = 0.6.

Question c:

P(man asked for raise and received raise) = 0.126.

did you get the answer yet?

step-by-step explanation:

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for