Question

From the employees of a company, 5 persons are selected to represent them in the managing committee of the company. Particulars of five persons are as follows:

S. No	Name	Sex	Age in years
1.	Harish	M	30
2.	Rohan	M	33
3.	Sheetal	F	46
4.	Alis	F	28
5.	Salim	M	41

A person is selected at random from this group to act as a spokesperson. What is the probability that the spokesperson will be either male or over 35 years?

Answer 1

Let E be the event in which the spokesperson will be a male and F be the event in which the spokesperson will be over 35 years of age.
Accordingly, P(E) = 3/5 and P(F) = 2/5
Since there is only one male who is over 35 years of age,

 We know that:

Thus, the probability that the spokesperson will either be a male or over 35 years of age is 4/5.