A box of 25 lego blocks contains 2 yellow square blocks 3 yellow rectangular blocks, 4 square blue blocks 8 blue rectangular blocks, 4 green square blocks 4 green rectangular blocks. You reach into the box with your eyes closed. You can tell from the feel of it that the block is a square. What is the probability that the block is blue? Your friend tells you that they have a yellow block in their hand, what is the probability that it is a rectangular block?

A box of 25 lego blocks contains 2 yellow square blocks 3 yellow rectangular blocks, 4 square blue blocks 8 blue rectangular blocks, 4 green square blocks 4 green rectangular blocks. You reach into the box with your eyes closed. You can tell from the feel of it that the block is a square. What is the probability that the block is blue? Your friend tells you that they have a yellow block in their hand, what is the probability that it is a rectangular block?

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

1st Edition

ISBN:9780547587776

Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Publisher:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability

Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events

Problem 2C

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