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1994, the U.S. government held a lottery to issue Green Cards (permits for non-citizens to work legally in the
U.S.). Renate Deutsch, from Germany, was one of approximately  million people who entered this lottery. Let  = won
green card.
 
In the summer of   , Renate received a letter stating she was one of  finalists chosen. Once the finalists
were chosen, assuming that each finalist had an equal chance to win, what was Renate’s chance of winning a
Green Card? Write your answer as a conditional probability statement. Let = was a finalist.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Conditional Probability Renate’s chance of winning a Green Card is,

 

Therefore required Conditional probability is:

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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