Answer:
A) 8.9%
B.) 17.35%
Step-by-step explanation:
Let X be the total number of persons age 25-plus
This means 48.7% of X are males.
Number of females become:
(100 - 48.7)x = 51.3%X
IF 23.8% of these males were graduates, then it means
23.8% * 48.7%X of these males are graduates.
0.238 * 0.487 X = 0.116X males are graduates.
That is 11.6% of persons are male College graduates.
If the question states that 20.5% of male and female were college graduates, then to answer question A, to get the number of female college graduates, it becomes:
20.5% - 11.6% = 8.9%
That means 8.9% of persons were female college graduates. .
If 53.1% of persons are females, let y be the percentage of these females that are College graduates.
Then it implies
Y * 51.3 = 8.9
Y = 8.9/51.3
Y = 0.1735 = 17.35%
This means the proportion of females that are College graduates = 17.35%
