B What is P(female)?
Multiple Choice Americans recycle increasing amounts through municipal waste collection. The table shows the collection data for 2007. What is the probability that a sample of recycled waste is paper?
Material | Recycled | Not Recycled |
---|---|---|
Paper | 45.2 | 37.8 |
Metal | 7.2 | 13.6 |
Glass | 3.2 | 10.4 |
Plastic | 2.1 | 28.6 |
Other | 21.7 | 46.3 |
SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
What's the condition?
The waste sample has to be recycled waste.
The given condition is that the waste is recycled. A favorable outcome is that the recycled waste is paper.
The probability that the recycled waste is paper is about 57%. The correct answer is D.
You can use a formula to find conditional probability.
For any two events A and B with