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OpenStax, Statistics §3.4 Contingency Tables · Example 4 · Probability · Conditional probability

Contingency Tables · Example 4

c. Find the probability that a person is male given that the person prefers hiking near lakes and streams. Let M = being male, and let L = prefers hiking near lakes and streams.

(a) What word tells you this is a conditional?
(b) Is the sample space for this problem all 100 hikers? If not, what is it?
(c) Fill in the blanks and calculate the probability: P(_____|_____) = _____.

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OpenStax, Statistics · §3.4 Contingency Tables · Example 4

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