Question 1206322: A population can be divided into two subgroups that occur with probabilities 60% and 40%, respectively. An event A occurs 10% of the time in the first subgroup and 50% of the time in the second subgroup. What is the unconditional probability of the event A, regardless of which subgroup it comes from?
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Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source):
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A population can be divided into two  subgroups that occur with probabilities 60% and 40%, respectively.
An event A occurs 10% of the time in the first subgroup and 50% of the time in the second subgroup.
What is the unconditional probability of the event A, regardless of which subgroup it comes from?
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The probability that event A will happen in the first group is 0.1*0.6.
The probability that event A will happen in the second group is 0.5*0.4.
Since the groups are , the probability that event A will happen in either group
is the sum
P = 0.1*0.6 + 0.5*0.4 = 0.06 + 0.2 = 0.26. ANSWER
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Answer by math_tutor2020(3816)  (Show Source):
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Get some graph paper. Draw a square with one vertex at (0,0) and the other at (10,10).
You will have a 10 by 10 square.
Draw a vertical line through x = 6 on the x axis.
The left portion is 6/10 = 60% of the original square.
The right portion is 4/10 = 40% of the original square.
Next, draw a horizontal line through y = 9. Only do so for the left-most region. The smaller rectangle up top represents 10% of the 60% region
This is the blue shaded area in the diagram below.
It is 6 units across and 1 unit tall. The blue area is 6*1 = 6 square units.
Draw another horizontal line through y = 5. Only do this for the right-most region. We split this portion in half.
Shade one of those halves, let's say the bottom half, and that shaded portion is 4 by 5. It has area 4*5 = 20 square units. This area is marked in red.
Add up the shaded areas
6+20 = 26
This is out of a total original area of 10*10 = 100 square units.
26/100 = 13/50 = 0.26 is the probability event A occurs regardless of which subgroup it comes from.
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