SOLUTION: A company sells two products, A and B. The probability that a customer will purchase product A is 0.6, and the probability that a customer will purchase product B is 0.4. The pro

Question 1205438: A company sells two products, A and B. The probability that a customer will purchase
product A is 0.6, and the probability that a customer will purchase product B is 0.4.
The probability that a customer will purchase both products is 0.2. What is the
probability that a customer will purchase product A, given that they also purchased
product B?
Answer by ikleyn(52780) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A company sells two products, A and B. The probability that a customer will purchase
product A is 0.6, and the probability that a customer will purchase product B is 0.4.
The probability that a customer will purchase both products is 0.2. What is the
probability that a customer will purchase product A, given that they also purchased
product B?
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You are actually GIVEN that this randomly selected customer bought both products, A and B.


It happens with the probability 0.2.

                                                         
Next, they want you find this conditional probability   =  =  = 0.5 =  = 50%.

Solved.

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