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August 5th, 2019, 12:34 AM   #1
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Tricky Conditional Probability Question

Hi,

Having trouble with the following conditional probability question, please see the attachment below titled Capture1.

Any help would be appreciated.
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 August 5th, 2019, 07:42 AM #2 Senior Member     Joined: Sep 2015 From: USA Posts: 2,582 Thanks: 1427 either $A$ happened or it didn't, $A$ and $\bar{A}$ are mutually exclusive events, so $P[B]=P[B|A] + P[B|\bar{A}] = 0.2 + 0.7 = 0.9$ $P[A|B] = \dfrac{P[B|A]P[A]}{P[B]} = \dfrac{(0.2)(0.8 )}{0.9} \approx 0.178$

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