1. There are three sections of English 101. In Section I, there are 25 students, of whom...
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2. Twenty percent of the contestants in a scholarship competition come from Pylesville High School, 40% come from Millerville High School, and the remainder come from Lakeside High School. Two percent of the Pylesville students are among the scholarship winners; 3% of the Millerville contestants and 5% of the Lakeside contestants win.
(a) If a winner is chosen at random, what is the probability that they are from Lakeside?
(b) What percentage of the winners are from Pylesville?
Use Bayes' theorem to calculate the probabilities?
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Finite Mathematics and Its Applications
ISBN: 978-0134768632
12th edition
Authors: Larry J. Goldstein, David I. Schneider, Martha J. Siegel, Steven Hair
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