SOLUTION: Intersection and conditional probability Suppose that a certain college class contains students. Of these, are freshmen, are English majors, and are neither. A student is sele

Question 137511: Intersection and conditional probability
Suppose that a certain college class contains students. Of these, are freshmen, are English majors, and are neither. A student is selected at random from the class.
(a) What is the probability that the student is both a freshman and an English major?
(b) Given that the student selected is a freshman, what is the probability that he is also an English major?
Write your responses as fractions.

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Essential numbers are missing from your posted problem.
Cheers,
Stan H.
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