A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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I buy 67% of the apples for my pie-baking business from the cleverly named Apple Company #1 and the rest from the equally cleverly named Apple Company #2. I find that 28% of the apples from Apple Company #1 are unbruised, while 67% of the apples from Apple Company #2 are. Given that an apple is unbruised, what is the
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