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In a depressed rustbelt city in Michigan, a newspaper investigative team found that a large majority of the city's youth were unemployed. The team defined youth as any city resident between the ages of 16-21.

Of the population aged 16-21 and not in college, 13.5% are unemployed, 29.05 % are high school dropouts, and 5.32% are unemployed high school dropouts.

What is the conditional probability that a member of this population is unemployed, given that the person is a high school dropout?

Here are the steps to get to the solution.

(a) Define: the event that a person is unemployed

(b) Define: the event that the person is a HS dropout

(c) Provide the three probability statements you can make from this story.

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The expert determines the probability of an individual being unemployed and a high school dropout.

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Here are the steps to get to the solution.

(a) Define: the event that a person is unemployed
Let U be the event that a person is unemployed, then P(U)=0.135

(b) Define: the event that the person ...

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