Question

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In a school of 1250 students, 250 are freshmen and 150 students take Spanish. The probability that a student takes Spanish given that he/she is a freshman is 30%. What is the probability that a randomly selected student is a freshman given that he/she takes Spanish?

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 50%
D) 67%

Answer 1

@agent0smith

Answer 2

@welshfella @radar

Answer 3

50%

Answer 4

Can you explain how you got that? I want to learn it too

Answer 5

Give me a sec and then yes

Answer 6

Ok

Answer 7

30% of freshman take Spanish, meaning there are 75 freshman Spanish students. So, out of all 150 Spanish students, 75, or 50% are freshmen.

Answer 8

Oh! Okay, thanks. That makes it a lot simpler. :)