Given the following table of survivors and losses on the Titanic, which of the following groups was the most likely to survive the ship's fateful voyage?
Group | Total | Saved | Lost |
Children, First class | 6 | 5 | 1 |
Women, First Class | 144 | 140 | 4 |
Men, First Class | 175 | 57 | 118 |
Children, Second Class | 24 | 24 | 0 |
Women, Second Class | 93 | 80 | 13 |
Men, Second Class | 168 | 14 | 154 |
Children, Third Class | 79 | 27 | 52 |
Women, Third Class | 165 | 76 | 87 |
Women, Crew | 23 | 20 | 3 |
Men, Crew | 885 | 192 | 693 |
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The solution is simple.. first add all the categories individually for people on boat i.e. add all class children, all women, all men... than exactly like previous step add all survivors in categories i.e. all children, all women and men.. than calculate a percentage by dividing the number of each category survivors with the number of all people present for that category... we will have a percentage 74.35 % fro women, which is higher than other categories.. so women have max chance to surviv