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The accompanying table shows the numbers of male and female students in a certain region who received bachelor's degrees in a certain field in a recent year. A student is selected at random. Find the probability of each event listed in parts (a) through (c) below.

	Degrees in Field	Degrees Outside of Field	Total
Males	151,385	600,678	752,063
Females	106,217	825,148	931,365
Total	257,602	1,425,826	1,683,428

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Part 1

(a) The student is male or received a degree in the field

The probability is

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(input integer or a decimal. Round to three decimal places as needed.)