SOLUTION: Suppose that a certain college class contains students. Of these, are juniors, are business majors, and are neither. A student is selected at random from the class. What is t

Question 1157390: Suppose that a certain college class contains students. Of these, are juniors, are business majors, and are neither. A student is selected at random from the class.
What is the probability that the student is both a junior and a business major?
(b) Given that the student selected is a junior, what is the probability that he is also a business major?
Write your responses as fractions.
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To do this, we need numbers of students and business majors. It is either a 2 x 2 table with juniors and non juniors and business and not business majors, or it is larger if there are more groups of students.
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