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In the final exams, 40% of the students failed chemistry, 25% failed physics, and 19% failed both chemistry and physics. What is the probability that a randomly selected student failed physics given that he passed chemistry?

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In The Final Exams 40 Of The Students Failed Chemistry 25 Failed Physics And 19 Failed Both Chemistry And Physics What Is The Probability That A Randomly Select class=

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Answer:

  10%

Step-by-step explanation:

If 40% failed chemistry then 60% passed chemistry.

If 19% failed both chemistry and physics, and 25% failed physics, then 6% passed chemistry and failed physics.

If we let p' represent failing physics and c represent passing chemistry, then ...

  P(p'|c) = P(p'c)/P(c)

  P(p'|c) = 6%/60% = 0.10 = 10%

If the randomly chosen student passed chemistry, the probability is 10% that he failed physics.

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