SOLUTION: In a car park there are 48 blue cars, 32 grey cars and 20 white cars. If a car is stolen at random, what is probability that it is a) A blue car? b) Not a white car

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Question 1065567: In a car park there are 48 blue cars, 32 grey cars and 20 white cars. If a car is stolen at random, what is probability that it is
a) A blue car?
b) Not a white car
Found 2 solutions by Boreal, stanbon:
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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100 cars
probability blue is 0.48
probability it is not white is 0.80, since there is 0.20 probability white.

Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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In a car park there are 48 blue cars, 32 grey cars and 20 white cars. If a car is stolen at random, what is probability that it is
a) P(A blue car) = 48/(48+32+20) = 48/100 = 0.48
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b) P(Not a white car) = 1 - P(white car) = 1 - (20/100) = 0.8
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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