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A French professor gives Sections 1 and 2 of a French course the same passage to translate. Section 1 has 24 students, and 7 translate the passage correctly. Section 2 ha
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A French professor gives Sections 1 and 2 of a French course the same passage to translate. Section 1 has 24 students, and 7 translate the passage correctly. Section 2 has 21 students, and 8 translate the passage correctly. (to three decimal places.
(a) If one of the papers is selected at random, what is the probability that it is a correct translation?
(b) One of the papers is selected and is known to be from Section 1. What is the probability that it is a correct translation?
(c) A paper is selected and is known to be a correct translation. What is the probability that it is from Section 2?
Answer by scott8148(6628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(a) there are 15 correct translations out of 45 papers
(b) there are 7 correct translations out of 21 papers
(c) there are 15 correct translations, of which 8 are from section 2
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