Mathematics I / Conditional Probability and Independence
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Events A and B satisfy P(A and B) = 0.12 and P(B) = 0.3. Compute P(A given B).

Hints
  1. Conditioning on B restricts attention to the outcomes where B holds.
  2. Divide the joint probability by the probability of the condition.
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0.4 (answers within ±0.005 count)

Why

P(A given B) = 0.12/0.3 = 0.4. The denominator is the condition, never the other event: dividing by P(A) instead answers a different question. Conditioning rescales the shrunken sample space back to a total of 1.

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