document.write( "Question 1194271: 7. In a class of advanced statistics, there are 10 first- year, 30 second year and 10 third- year
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document.write( "    It is  P = \"10%2F%283+%2B+10+%2B+5%29\" = \"10%2F18\" = \"5%2F9\".    ANSWER\r\n" );
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document.write( "Working with the conditional probability problems, we can reduce the space of events, \r\n" );
document.write( "considering the events under the imposed condition.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the denominator of the probability fraction is the number of elements\r\n" );
document.write( "in the reduced space, while the numerator is the number of favorable elements\r\n" );
document.write( "in this reduced space of events.\r\n" );
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