SOLUTION: From past experience, an instructor estimates that the probability that a student will cheat on an exam is .05. The probability that a student cheats and is caught is .01. the prob
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Question 632306: From past experience, an instructor estimates that the probability that a student will cheat on an exam is .05. The probability that a student cheats and is caught is .01. the probability that a student will be caught, given that the student is cheating, is what?
Answer by reviewermath(1029) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Conditional Probability
Let A = event that the student is caught
B = event that student is cheating
P(A|B) =
=
= or
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