I've never encounter this type of problem where there are multiple percentages that prevent or support one outcome does someone know a forumla for this problem? let's say the outcome is (I break my phone while I'm walking in the snow,) if I wear latex gloves for friction it will make the risk 15% of dropping my phone and if I wear snow boots it will decrease the risk to 0.1% of me falling and dropping my phone and if I do drop my phone there is a 32% chance of it breaking, so if I wear latex gloves and also wear snow boots what are the chances of my breaking my phone

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I've never encounter this type of problem where there are multiple percentages that prevent or support one outcome does someone know a forumla for this problem? let's say the outcome is (I break my phone while I'm walking in the snow,) if I wear latex gloves for friction it will make the risk 15% of dropping my phone and if I wear snow boots it will decrease the risk to 0.1% of me falling and dropping my phone and if I do drop my phone there is a 32% chance of it breaking,  so if I wear latex gloves and also wear snow boots what are the chances of my breaking my phone

tkhunny · Answer

Consider a tree?