looking at the data for question 4. answer the question 5 4. Data sometimes make

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looking at the data for question 4.

answer the question 5

4. Data sometimes make it seem that getting married is good for your career. Investigators were interested in testing this properly. They collected data on marital status and job status from a group of managers and professionals at one company. They assigned job status levels such that the lowest status jobs had a status of 1 and the highest status of jobs had a 4. Data are given below. Marital status Job status Single Married Divorced Widowed Total 874 58 955 15 3927 4239 70 20 222 2396 34 2490 50 10 551 533 126 337 7730 8235 42 Total

Explanation / Answer

5 a) P(single people hold status level 1 jobs)

= 58/337

= 0.1721

So,

% of single people hold status level 1 jobs = 17.21%

b) P(Status level 1 jobs are held by single people)

= 58/955

= 0.0607

Hence,

% of Status level 1 jobs are held by single people = 6.07%

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