A nationwide US telephone survey3 conducted by the Pew Foundations in October 2010 asked 2625 adults...

A nationwide US telephone survey3 conducted by the Pew Foundations in October 2010 asked 2625 adults ages 18 and older the following question: “Some people say there is only one true love for each person. Do you agree or disagree?” The surveyed were selected randomly, by landlines and cell phones.

The results showed 372 males “agree” and 363 females “agree” while 1005 females “disagree” and 807 males “disagree”. The number of males who responded “don’t know” was 34, and females 44.

a. Construct a two-way table summarizing the data.

	Male	Female	Total
Agree
Disagree
Don’t know
Total

Find the proportions below and express your answers as a decimal rounded to 3 decimal places.
a. What is the proportion of females that agreed?
b. What is the proportion of people who agreed were female?
c. What is the proportion of males that agreed?
d. What is the proportion of survey responders that were female?
e. What is the proportion of responders who answered “don’t know” that
were males?
f. What is the proportion of males that disagreed?
g. What proportion of people who agreed were female?

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