The accompanying data are from the article Characteristics of Buyers of Hybrid Honda Civic IMA: Preferences, Decision

The accompanying data are from the article €œCharacteristics of Buyers of Hybrid Honda Civic IMA: Preferences, Decision Process, Vehicle Ownership, and Willingness to Pay€ (Institute for Environmental Decisions, November 2006). Each of 311 people who purchased a Honda Civic was classified according to sex and whether the car purchased had a hybrid engine or not.

a. Find the following probabilities: i. P(male)
ii. P(hybrid)
iii. P(hybrid| male)
iv. P(hybrid| female)
v. P(female| hybrid)
b. For each of the probabilities calculated in Part (a), write a sentence interpreting the probability.
c. Are the probabilities P (hybrid| male) and P(male| hybrid) equal? If not, write a sentence or two explaining the difference.

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Male Female 34 83