TABLE 4-6 at a Texas College, 60% of the Students Are from Are

question 7

Short Answer

TABLE 4-6
At a Texas college, 60% of the students are from the southern part of the state, 30% are from the northern part of the state, and the remaining 10% are from out-of-state. All students must take and pass an Entry Level Math (ELM) test. 60% of the southerners have passed the ELM, 70% of the northerners have passed the ELM, and 90% of the out-of-staters have passed the ELM.
-Referring to Table 4-6, if a randomly selected student has not passed the ELM, the probability the student is from southern Texas is ________.

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