HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Political Party

Republican Democrat Independent Total

Male 161 196 0 357

Female 17 59 0 76

Total 178 255 0 433

SENATE

Political Party

Republican Democrat Independent Total

Male 37 44 2 83

Female 4 13 0 17

Total 41 57 2 100

COMBINED TABLE - CONGRESS - COMBINING HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE

republican democrat independent total

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Congress if made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Members of the House of Representatives serve two year terms and represent a district in a state.The number of representatives each state has is determined by population. States with larger populations have ore representatives than stats with smaller populations. The total number of representatives is set by law at 435 members. Members of the Senate serve sex-year terms and represent a state. Each state has 2 senators, for a total of 100. The tables show the makeup of the 111^th Congress by gender and political party. There are two vacant seats in the House of Representatives.

Please answer the questions below and SHOW YOUR WORK where applicable. All answers should be proportions rounded to the nearest thousandths (3 decimals). For Example: this is what is required to be shown if I ask this question - shown is how you are expected to answer: (please note that this is the correct formula and process whenever an OR question is asked)

Find the probability that a Senate is a Male OR a Democrat:

83/100+57/100-44/100=96/100=.960

1.Find the probability that a randomly selected House of Representative is a female.

2.Find the probability that a randomly selected Senator is a female.

3.A House of Representative member is selected at random. Find the probability of each event:

a.The representative is a male

b.The representative is a Republican

c.The representative is a male GIVEN that the representative is a Republican

d.The representative is female and a Democrat

4.A Senator is selected at random. Find the probability of each event

a.The senator is a male

b.The senator is not a Democrat

c.The senator is female or a Republican

d.The senator is a male or a Democrat

5.Using the same row and column headings, a combined table for the Congress (template created for you above - you can just fill in the table I already created)

6.A member of Congress is selected at random. Use the combined table to find the probability of each event.

a.The member is Independent

b.The member is female and a Republican

c.The member is male or a Democrat