Party, Again Refer to the table for Exercise 5.107.
a. Find the probability that a randomly chosen respondent is conservative given that she or he is a Republican.
b. Find the probability that a randomly chosen respondent is a Republican given that he or she is conservative.
c. Find the probability that a randomly chosen respondent is both conservative AND a Republican.
Exercise 5.107:
GSS: Political Party The General Social Survey (GSS) is a survey done nearly every year at the University of Chicago. One survey, summarized in the table, asked each respondent to report her or his political party affiliation and whether she or he was liberal, moderate, or conservative. (Dem stands for Democrat, and Rep stands for Republican.)
a. If one person is chosen randomly from the group, what is the probability that the person is liberal?
b. If one person is chosen randomly from the group, what is the probability that the person is a Democrat?