Use the Rule of Total Probability to Find the Indicated

question 5

Multiple Choice

Use the rule of total probability to find the indicated probability.
-A company is conducting a sweepstakes, and ships two boxes of game pieces to a particular store. Box A has 4% of its contents being winners, while 6% of the contents of box B are winners. Box A
Contains 34% of the total tickets. If the contents of both boxes are mixed in a drawer and a ticket is
Chosen at random, what is the probability it is a winner?

• A)0.1
• B)0.053
• C)0.05
• D)0.014

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