Instructions: Assignment Submission: F4 o Complete the Case Study on page 167. o Type your responses in a Word document. Be sure to number your responses properly. o Show all your calculations where applicable. 24 o Once you have completed the assignment, click the Submit Assignment option in the menu to the right and select a format for submitting your assignment. o Click the Submit Assignment button when you are ready. CASE STUDY United States Congress Congress is made up of the House of Represen- tatives and the Senate. Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and represent a district in a state. The number of representatives for each state is determined by population. States with larger populations have more representatives than states with smaller populations. The total number of representatives is set by law at 435. Members of the Senate serve six-year terms and represent a state. Each state has 2 senators, for a total of 100 senators.
The tables show the makeup of the 115th Con- gress by gender and political party as of January 3, 2017. 2 of 818 Inbox 9:29 PM (3 minutes ago) to me 1. Find the probability that a randomly se- lected representative is female. Find the probability that a randomly selected sena- tor is female. 2. Compare the probabilities from Exercise 11.0. 3. A representative is selected at random. Find the probability of each event. a. The representative is male. b. The representative is a Republican. c. The representative is male given that the representative is a Republican. d. The representative is female and a Democrat. 4. Among members of the House of Repre- sentatives, are the events “being female” and “being a Democrat” independent or dependent events? Explain. 5. A senator is selected at random. Find the probability of each event. a. The senator is male. b. The senator is not a Democrat. c. The senator is female or a Republican. d. The senator is male or a Democrat.