Following is a distribution of the 432 members of the US House of Representatives for the 114 th US Congress (1/3/2015 to 1/3/2017) by gender and...

Below are several questions.

• Please answer in complete sentences and enough details as is you were teaching someone.
• Please answer one or two questions at a time giving others a chance to respond.
• It’s OK to answer two different questions on a separate day.
• Please do not answer questions that have been answered unless you are contributing something substantially different.

True or false:

  a) Most Democratic representatives are women

b) Most women representatives are Democrats

Compute the following probabilities:

c) P(W|D)                                d) P(D|W)             e) P(R|W)              f) P(W|R)               g) P(W or R)        h) P(W and D)

i) Explain which of these probabilities, c)-h), are helpful in answering the two true/false questions above?

j) Explain whether the events “women” and “republican” independent.