SOLUTION: a car retail company has 350 cars. 70 of the cars have only defective windshield wipers and 25 have only defective tail lights . 200 of the car have no defects. what is the probabi

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Question 1126956: a car retail company has 350 cars. 70 of the cars have only defective windshield wipers and 25 have only defective tail lights . 200 of the car have no defects. what is the probability that a car chosen at random
a) has defective windshield wipers?
B) has defective tail lights?
c) does not have defective tail lights?

Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 150 cars with defects, and 95 are accounted for. The other 55 have both defective wipers and tail lights.
That makes 125 with defective wipers overall or 5/14
There are 80 overall with defective tail lights or 8/35
Do not have defective taillights would be 27/35

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