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    Professor Chand at IIT Bombay kept data on student performance by gender that was lost due to a computer virus. An expert committee determined that half the students were either excellent or good, 40% were female, and one third of male students were average. The summary includes questions about determining the number of female excellent students, male good students, the ratio of average male to female students, and the proportions of good students that were female and male.

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    Professor Chand at IIT Bombay kept data on student performance by gender that was lost due to a computer virus. An expert committee determined that half the students were either excellent or good, 40% were female, and one third of male students were average. The summary includes questions about determining the number of female excellent students, male good students, the ratio of average male to female students, and the proportions of good students that were female and male.

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    DATA ANALYSIS AND

    INTERPRETATION
    CASELETS
    CASELET
    IIT Bombay has a several professors who have returned from Harvard. One such
    professor is a Professor Chand. Chand keeps data on students tabulated by performance
    and gender of the student . The data is kept on a computer disk, but unfortunately some
    of it is lost because of a virus. Only the following could be recovered :

    Panic buttons were pressed but to no avail. An expert committee was formed, which
    decided that the following facts were self evident:
    Half the students were either excellent or good. 40% of the students were females. One
    third of the male students were average.
    Questions
    How many students were both female and excellent?
    (a) 0 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 32

    How many students were both male and good?


    (a) 10 (b) 16 (c) 22 (d) 48

    Among average students, what was the ratio of male to female?


    (a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 1 (c) 3 : 2 (d) 2 : 3

    What proportion of female students were good?


    (a) 0 (b) 0.25 (c) 0.5 (d) 1.0

    What proportion of good students were male?


    (a) 0 (b) 0.73 (c) 0.4 (d) 1.0
    Best Wishes

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