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The registrar’s report at State University includes the following information: Total enrollment—47,348. Enrollment in the Arts and Science College—27.837. Number of males enrolled in Arts and Sciences—12,722. The alumni magazine wants to interview a randomly selected student about the student’s attitude toward university athletics. The registrar’s office makes a random selection and observes the student is enrolled in Arts and Sciences. Find the probability the students is a male.

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Given the total number of enrollment in the university which is 47,34847,348. This will serve as our sample space. Moreover, it is given that the number males enrolled in Arts and Sciences is 12,72212,722.

We need to find the probability that a randomly selected student is a male.

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