
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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Author: Sheldon Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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Of people in a certain town who bought a new vehicle in the past year, 12% of them bought a hybrid vehicle and 5% of them bought a hybrid truck. Given that a person bought a hybrid vehicle, what is the probability that it was a truck?
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