Each year Jacqui adds to her book collection a number of new publications that she believes will be of lasting value and interest. She has categorized each of her twenty acquisitions for 2015 as hardcover or paperback and as fiction or nonfiction as shown in the table : egin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|} hline & Fiction (F) & Nonfiction(N) & Totals \ hline Hardcover (H) & 3 & 5 & 8 \ hline Paperback(P) & 8 & 4 & 12 \ hline Totals & 11 & 9 & 20 \ hline end{tabular} If Jacqui randomly chooses one of these 20 book what is the probability that : a) It's a fiction? b) Paperback or a fiction? c) Paperback given that it's a fiction ( (P(P mid F)) ) ?
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From the table, we can see that there are 11 fiction books and 20 total books. So, the probability is: P(F) = (Number of fiction books) / (Total number of books) = 11/20 b) Show more…
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