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Abag contains 4 red, 7 blue and 5 yellow marbles. event a is defined as drawing a yellow marble on the first draw and event b is defined as drawing a blue marble on the second draw. if two marbles are drawn from the bag, one after the other and not replaced, what is p(b|a) expressed in simplest form? a. 7/16 b. 7/15 c. 14/16 d. 14/15

Assume that there is a 11% rate of disk drive failure in a year. a. if all your computer data is stored on a hard disk drive with a copy stored on a second hard disk drive, what is the probability that during a year, you can avoid catastrophe with at least one working drive? b. if copies of all your computer data are stored on four independent hard disk drives, what is the probability that during a year, you can avoid catastrophe with at least one working drive?

If 5x - 2 = -12, then x = a) -50 b) -4.4 c) -2.8 d) -2