
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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Author: Sheldon Ross
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![Maria works as an IT technician for a local company. There are 42 computers infected with a virus on the company's network of 1000 computers.
Maria chooses a computer on the company's network at random. Let the event A and the event B be as follows.
A: The computer Maria chooses is infected with the virus.
B: The computer Maria chooses is not infected with the virus.
Find the following probabilities. Write your answers as decimal numbers and do not round.
P(A) = [
P(B) = ]](https://content.bartleby.com/qna-images/question/6b2e7edc-6743-4189-8a4b-f0a5a83d02bc/58e15659-52cf-4aa6-8beb-a6c936b2d397/s4n43db_thumbnail.jpeg)
Transcribed Image Text:Maria works as an IT technician for a local company. There are 42 computers infected with a virus on the company's network of 1000 computers.
Maria chooses a computer on the company's network at random. Let the event A and the event B be as follows.
A: The computer Maria chooses is infected with the virus.
B: The computer Maria chooses is not infected with the virus.
Find the following probabilities. Write your answers as decimal numbers and do not round.
P(A) = [
P(B) = ]
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