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Okay i say t match members We got on the

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chart table thinking for you here lemon orange grape on

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a military may get hungry Alright What is it about

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let's See employees of a candy company surveyed people of

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different ages and asked them there for favorite flavor of

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candy One of the surveyors wants to send a follow

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up spam email thing to a respondent Meaning someone who

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responded to the survey The respondent was between the ages

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of twelve and twenty five So what is the probability

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that the person who receives that email preferred watermelon four

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years All right so let's go up here We're gonna

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look at the ages twelve and twenty five So they

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must mean these two columns and they're asking us probably

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person who's Your watermelon Well let's See we've got ninety

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two and eighty six out of a total of let's

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Say it looks like sixteen sixty six let's Think about

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this So hopefully we get a free piece Candy if

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we get this right Since the surveyor only chose from

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people age twelve through twenty five Yeah these columns or

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the right way to go and find the total number

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Of people in this age range So this will be

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the denominator of the probability expressions We gotta add three

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seventy two and four seventy one So it's not out

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of the total it's just out of this age range

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group here right Well the numerator is the number of

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people who like watermelon but only from those two columns

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and that's that ninety two plus eighty six number So

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that gets us well What is that uh one seventy

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eight over eight forty three it's about point to one

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or twenty one percent Twenty one percent is the probability

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that a person who receives that email preferred watermelon All 00:01:42.193 --> [endTime] right that's it We're not where's our candy

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