Question

180 people filled out a survey about their favorite color. 95 of the respondents were female. 21 males responded that their favorite color is red. What is the approximate conditional frequency that a person surveyed was a male whose favorite color is red?

Answer 1

If there were 180 taking the survey and 95 were female, that means that there were 85 males.

Since only 21 of the males said red was their favorite color, we can write the fraction 21/85.

21 / 85 x 100 = 24.7%

24.7% of the males said red was their favorite color.