Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 11

Salary Raise: Women Dose it pay to ask for a raise A national survey of heads of households showed the percentage of those who asked for a raise and the percentage who got one ( USA Today ). According to the survey, of the women interviewed, 24 % had asked for a raise, and of those women who had asked for a raise, 45 % received the raise, If a women is selected at random from the survey population of women, find the following probabilities: P(woman asked for a raise); P (woman received raise, given she asked for one); P (woman asked for raise and received raise).