Conditional Probability: the likelihood that an event will occur GIVEN that another event has...

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Conditional Probability: the likelihood that an event will occur GIVEN that another event has already occurred. A two way table & tree diagrams can represent these types of events. The probability of event B given event A has occurred is represented as P(B|A) Example: P(18 to 24|female) = 5668/9321 ≈ 0.6081

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Conditional Probability: the likelihood that an event will occur GIVEN that another event has already occurred.

A two way table & tree diagrams can represent these types of events.

The probability of event B given event A has occurred is represented as P(B|A)

Example: P(18 to 24|female) = 5668/9321 ≈ 0.6081

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1) What is the probability that a student chosen at random would be 35 years or older?

2) What is the probability that a student chosen at random would be 35 years or older given that they are female?

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The intersection of events (events happening together) can be found as follows:

P(A and B ) or P(A ∩ B) = P(A) * P(B|A)

What if you want to determine if two variable events are independent of each

other?Is age

independent of gender?

If P(B) = P(B|A), then the events are independent.

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Are online chat rooms dominated by the young adults? Of all adult users...

29% are 18-29 years (A1) 47% are 30 – 49 years (A2)

24% are 50+ years (A3) 47% of the 18-29 years use chat rooms

21% of the 30-49 years use chat rooms 7% of the 50+ years use chat rooms

What percent of adult chat

room users are 18 – 29

years old?

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