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Civil War Estimates of the Confederate Army’s strength and losses for the battle of Gettysburg are given in the following table, where strength is the number of soldiers immediately preceding the battle and loss indicates a soldier who was killed, wounded, captured, or missing. Source: Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg.
Unit | Strength | Loss |
I Corps (Longstreet) | 20,766 | 7661 |
II Corps (Ewell) | 20,666 | 6603 |
III Corps (Hill) | 22,083 | 8807 |
Cavalry (Stuart) | 6621 | 286 |
Total | 70,076 | 22,557 |
a. Find the probability that a randomly selected confederate soldier was from the III Corps.
b. Find the probability that a confederate soldier was lost in the battle.
c. Find the probability that a I Corps soldier was lost in the battle.
d. Which group had the highest probability of not being lost in the battle?
e. Which group had the highest probability of loss?
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