OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §3.4 Contingency Tables · Example 4 · Probability · Conditional probability
Contingency Tables · Example 4
c. Find the probability that a person is a man given that the person prefers hiking near lakes and streams. Let M = being a man, and let L = prefers hiking near lakes and streams.
(a) What word tells you this is a conditional?
(b) Fill in the blanks and calculate the probability: P(___|___) = ___.
(c) Is the sample space for this problem all 100 hikers? If not, what is it?
OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e · §3.4 Contingency Tables · Example 4
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