Question: *this is time sensitive, i'm more worried about the correct answer rather than the explanations! When a melon is good, I can tell by the

*this is time sensitive, i'm more worried about the correct answer rather than the explanations!

"When a melon is good, I can tell by the smell (before I buy it) correctly 3 times out of 4. But when it's bad, I can tell 9 times out of 10 without buying it. What is the percentage of bad melons that I will buy during a season when 4 out of 5 of the melons for sale are good?"

answer options:

about. 7.2%

about 4.6%

about 10%

about 2.5%

about 3.2%

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