SOLUTION: An ice cream vendor sells three flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Forty five percent of the sales are chocolate, while 30% are strawberry, with the rest vanilla flavored

Question 860223: An ice cream vendor sells three flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Forty five percent of the sales are chocolate, while 30% are strawberry, with the rest vanilla flavored. Sales are by the cone or the cup. The percentages of cones sales for chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla, are 75%, 60%, and 40%, respectively. For a randomly selected sale, define the following events:
= chocolate chosen
= strawberry chosen
= vanilla chosen
= ice cream on a cone
ice cream in a cup
Find the probability that the ice cream was sold on a cone and was strawberry flavor
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

 

Hi,

Recommend quickly doing a little table to keep things straight

		cone	cup

Choc	45%	75%	25%

SBerry	30%	60%	40%

vanilla	25%	40%	60%

Probability of the following choices

chocolate chosen = .45

strawberry chosen = .30

vanilla chosen = .20

ice cream on a cone = 

ice cream in a cup  = 1 - P(cone)

 strawberry cone = 

Obviously the chocolate cone the favorite 

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