SOLUTION: An animal shelter has a 65% adoption rate for puppies. Of all puppies in the shelter, 72% live to be 7 years or older. Of the puppies who are adopted, 80% live to be 7 years or old

Question 1159699: An animal shelter has a 65% adoption rate for puppies. Of all puppies in the shelter, 72% live to be 7 years or older. Of the puppies who are adopted, 80% live to be 7 years or older. What is the probability that a randomly selected puppy in the shelter will get adopted and live 7 or more years?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Look at 1000 puppies
--------live <7-----LIve>=7
A--------130--------520-------650
Not A----150 -------200-------350
Total----280--------720-------1000
P(adopted and live 7 or more years) is 0.52
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