Calculate The Probability of Selling One Ice Cream Flavor From Three
Question
An ice cream vendor sells three flavors: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. Forty five percent of the sales are chocolate, while 30% are strawberry, with the rest vanilla flavored. Sales are by the cone or the cup. The percentages of cones sales for chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla, are 75%, 60%, and 40%, respectively. For a randomly selected sale, define the following events:
A1 = chocolate chosen
A2= strawberry chosen
A3= vanilla chosen
B = ice cream on a cone
B¯ = ice cream in a cup
Find the probability that the ice cream was sold on a cone and was vanilla flavor.
Summary
This short answer question belongs to Statistics and it is about calculating the sales of ice cream flavors of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. The question is to find the probability of selling an ice cream in cone with vanilla flavor.
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