SOLUTION: In a large statistics course, 72% of the students passed the first exam, 70% of the students pass the second exam, and 59% of the students passed both exams. Assume a randomly s

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Question 1153534: In a large statistics course, 72% of the students passed the first exam, 70% of the students pass the second exam, and 59% of the students passed both exams.
Assume a randomly selected student is selected from the class. If the student passed the first exam, what is the probability that they passed the second exam?

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P(passing first exam) = 0.72
P(passing second exam) = 0.70
P(passing both exams) = 0.59

If the student passed the first exam, what is the probability that they passed the second exam?

P(passing second exam|passing first exam) = P%28passing+both+exams%29%2FP%28passing+first+exam%29 = 0.59%2F0.72 = 0.8194