Surviving the Titanic - Part 2

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

Details and assumptions

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Women Children Not enough information Men

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15 solutions

Umar Kanju
Feb 20, 2014

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

no need to find the exact percentage....we can just find the individual sum of saved and lost for children, men and women....56 out of 109 children were saved which is nearly 1/2 of the total....316 out of 425 women were saved i.e nearly 3/4 of the total and 338 out 0f 1690 men were saved i.e nearly 1/4 of the total...thus more women were saved (in terms of ratio)...

sarthak mehta - 7 years, 3 months ago

thanks

Jamshed Alam Sumon - 7 years, 3 months ago

thats good, i forget there are two ctegories in the childern. the second categories die most

badrun Badrun - 7 years, 3 months ago

Fantastic, just like riding a ship with my brain moving on . . .

Omar Khayyam - 7 years, 3 months ago

that was fun...for sure

Fahim Nawaz - 7 years, 3 months ago

adding category wise is good enough

rajgopal p - 7 years, 3 months ago

good

rani masali - 7 years, 3 months ago

i think thr are 2 catagries of childern

Noor Khan - 7 years, 3 months ago

two catgries of womn who is the correct ans plz tell me

Noor Khan - 7 years, 3 months ago

first find total persons catagory wise , then find percentage saved. Women have > 50% ratio.

Bharat Soni - 7 years, 3 months ago

thanks

Muhammad Khan - 7 years, 3 months ago

Women

Arsalan Lodhi - 7 years, 2 months ago

when thre are 3 men and 4 women what possible aswer

Junel Guanao - 7 years, 3 months ago
Navin Kumar
Feb 22, 2014

Add category wise for women, children and men and find out the ratio of survival and total present in the same category. The category which has maximum value of ratio is the answer.

find individual probabilities for each by dividing no. survived to the total no.then under each category,suppose women multiply all the probabilities found for same.do the same under remaining two categories resulting in women having highest survival probability of around 0.25.

SHRISTI KUMARI - 7 years, 3 months ago

add category wise and divide losses by total... to give the highly likely category

Manish Prasad - 7 years, 3 months ago

Add category wise for women, children and men and find out the ratio of survival and total present in the same category. The category which has maximum value of ratio is the answer.

Manish Prasad - 7 years, 3 months ago

Add category wise for women, children and men and find out the ratio of survival and total present in the same category. The category which has maximum value of ratio of women

Manish Prasad - 7 years, 3 months ago
Ant6880 C
Feb 27, 2014

I glanced at the total and the lost of each group. i saw that women loss and children loss were both lower than the men loss by a good amount, so i quickly lowered it down to those two groups. I then saw that the women loss was higher than the children loss, but I saw that the women total was much higher than children total, so the ratios showed that women had higher chances of surviving.

Ragini Maurya
Feb 27, 2014

actually, i added all the saved and lost categories individually for children, women and men then...........compare them lost categories of men is more than women and children...and women saved is more than a children so i think women are the best survivor of the titanic ship.......... please tell m thinking right or wrong......

Khalid Masum
Feb 23, 2014

First calculate the groups (How many child/women/men lost or saved). There we can see that more than 1/2 of the women were saved. But more than 1/2 of the children or men were lost. So it is easy to say that women had max chance to survive. {{I don't know English properly. So the answer may have some grammatical problem }}.

Rajesh Ch
Mar 11, 2014

first we should add all the people individually basing on group on boat that means 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 live more and survive

Harsh Rathour
Mar 23, 2014

Mainly 3 groups of people were present on the Titanic. They are men,women and children. As we will see the number of people dead,it is found that the most no. of people died were men and the least died were women. So,the answer is women.

Joydhi Telmo
Mar 22, 2014

Add the total number of saved women and divide it by the total number of women in the ship, do the same with men and children. You'll get the survival percentage, and you'll see that women has the highest survival percentage.

Bo Yang
Mar 13, 2014

The answer is women. We can rule out men, because simply looking at the chart more men were lost than saved. Then: Total Women Saved: 316 out of 425, about three-fourths. Total Children Saved: 56 out of 109, about half. More women were saved than children because 3/4>1/2.

Sunil Addepalli
Mar 13, 2014

only 51 % children saved, nearly 75% woman saved,

Anurag Pandey
Mar 8, 2014

in the class 1: 83% children , 97% women and 32% men saved in class 2: 100% children , 86% women in class 3: 34% children , 42 women are saved in crew : 86% women saved so mean of women are much highier (83%) than children 72% and men left far more behind. Ans is Women.

Muhamed Medo
Mar 6, 2014

The number of all children is109 children and the saved children are 56 so the percentage of survived children is 51.37 % And the number of all men is1690 and the saved men are 338 men so the pecentage of survived men is 20% And also the number of women is 425 women and the survived are 316 women so its percentage of surviving is 74.35% and this is the greatest percentage so the answer is women

Muhamed Medo
Mar 6, 2014

if we add all children they will be 109 children and the saved children are 56 so the percentage of survived children is 51.37 % the same if we add men they will be 1690 and the saved men are 338 men so the pecentage of survived men is 20% and also the number of women is 425 women and the survived are 316 women so its percentage of surviving is 74.35% and this is the greatest percentage so the answer is women

Rajnish Raipure
Feb 26, 2014

If we calculate the percentage of children, women, and men saved on the ship are 72.5% children, 79.07% women, and 19.71% men. so the maximum chances to survive are of women is clearly seen.

Kaushik Soorada
Feb 26, 2014

add category wise and divide losses by total... to give the highly likely category

ITS PRETTY SIMPLE JUST DIVIDE LIST OF SURVIVORS WITH NUMBER OF THE PASSENGERS

Rener Yetyet - 7 years, 3 months ago

children second class is correct answer

aftab ahmad - 7 years, 3 months ago

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