At St. Winnefred Hospital, the numbers of males and females in various job categories are as follows:
Question:
At St. Winnefred Hospital, the numbers of males and females in various job categories are as follows:
Job Males Females Totals Doctor 83 15 98 Nurse 62 116 178 Orderly 151 12 163 Lab Technician 32 30 62 Administrator 12 1 13 Clerk 72 141 213 Totals 412 315 727 SOC Read each question carefully before constructing the fraction and solving for the answer. The formulas for these statistics are repeated here for your convenience:
(HINT: Be sure you place the proper number in the denominator of the fractions. For example, some problems use the total number of males or females as the denominator, whereas others use the total number of subjects.)
a. What percentage of nurses are male?
b. What proportion of orderlies are female?
c. For doctors, what is the ratio of males to females?
d. What percentage of the total staff are males?
e. What is the ratio of males to females for the entire sample?
f. What proportion of the clerks are male?
g. What percentage of the sample are administrators?
h. What is the ratio of nurses to doctors?
i. What is the ratio of female lab technicians to male lab technicians?
j. What proportion of the males are clerks?
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