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Statistics Question - Calculating Probabilities
A manufacturer has two plants that produce the same product...Plant A and Plant B...Plant A has 60% of the total production and has a 5% defective rate...Plant B has 40% of the total production with a 7.5% defective rate...
1. What is the total defect rate? I came up with 6%...????
2. A randomly selected product was defective. What is the probability that it came from Plant A?
This problem will explain how to calculate probabilities
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