A zoo has received two equal-sized truckloads of bananas.  Truckload A has 7% rotten bananas and truckload B has 9% rotten bananas.  The two truckloads are mixed.  What is the probability that if a monkey finds a rotten banana,

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012
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Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability
Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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A zoo has received two equal-sized truckloads of bananas.  Truckload A has 7% rotten bananas and truckload B has 9% rotten bananas.  The two truckloads are mixed.  What is the probability that if a monkey finds a rotten banana, it came from truckload A?
 
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