SOLUTION: Your favorite team is in the World Series. You have assigned a probability of 62% that they will win the championship. Past records indicate that when teams win the championship, t

Question 1168712: Your favorite team is in the World Series. You have assigned a probability of 62% that they will win the championship. Past records indicate that when teams win the championship, they win the first game of the series 65% of the time. When they lose the championship, they win the first game 28% of the time. The first game is over and your team has lost. What is the probability that they will win the World Series?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
========WS=======LS===Total
WG1-----40.3---------10.64---50.94
LG1-----21.7----------27.36---49.06
total====62========38===100
They lost the first game, so probability of winning is 21.7/49.06=0.4423
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