Chapter 5: Q 63. (page 332)
Body image A random sample of U.S. college students was asked, 鈥淲hat is your perception of your own body? Do you feel that you are overweight, underweight, or about right?鈥 The two-way table below summarizes the data on perceived body image by gender.


Suppose we randomly select one of the survey respondents.
a. Given that the person perceived his or her body image as about right, what鈥檚 the
probability that the person is female?
b. If the person selected is female, what鈥檚 the probability that she did not perceive her body image as overweight?
Short Answer
a. Probability for female student perceived her body image as about right is .
b. Probability for female student did not perceive her body image as overweight is.


