Artificial intelligent assistant

"The table shows the gender of the listeners who called in to participate in a quiz by a radio station." In the image included below, there's a table showing the gender of 15 callers for a radio quiz. 6 are male, 9 are female. Part a) asks for the experimental probability (as a percentage) that a caller is male (answer: 40%) Part b) asks for the experimental probability (as a percentage) that a caller is female (answer: 60%) Part c) asks for the probability that the 16th caller is male. (book says 43.75%) Part d) asks for the probability that the 100th caller is female. (book says 50%) How did they get parts c) and d)? This is for a 12-year-old's math class. !enter image description here I think this is from the Singapore Mathematics standards series - look at the cover image for grade 3A here: < ![Textbook Cover]( ![Teacher's Guide](

With just the information provided I think you would naturally assume either

* that the call in audience is large and $40\%$ male and all are equally likely to call in. That would make the answers to c) and d) $40\%$ and $60\%$. Then the book is just plain wrong.



or

* that the audience is large and half male half female, which would explain the answer to d) but not to c).



Perhaps there is context with more about the audience or some strange definition of "experimental probability" that leads to the book's answers.

**Edit:** I contacted the publisher. That is in fact an error, known since 2016. The correct answers are $40\%$ and $60\%$.

See the list of errata here:

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