Fifty chief executive officers of small to medium-sized companies were classified according to their gender and functional background as shown in the table below:

a. If a chief executive is randomly selected from this group what is the probability that the executive is a female?
b. What is the probability that a randomly selected executive from this group is a male whose functional background is marketing?
c. Assume that an executive is selected and you are told that the executive€™s functional background was in operations. What is the probability that this executive is a female?
d. Assume that an executive is selected and you are told that the executive is a female. What is the probability the executive€™s functional area is marketing?
e. Are gender and functional background independent for this set of executives?

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Functional Background Male Fale Total Marketing Finance Operations Total 10 14 16 17 32 3 20 50 18