Compute Conditional Probabilities
-A Fast-Food Restaurant Chain with 700 Outlets $0.782$

question 154

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Compute Conditional Probabilities
-A fast-food restaurant chain with 700 outlets in the United States describes the geographic location of its restaurants with the accompanying table of percentages. A restaurant is to be chosen at random from the 700 to test market a new style of chicken. Given that the restaurant is located in the eastern United States, what is the probability it is located in a city with a population of at least 10,000 ?

• A) \(0.782\)
• B) \(0.506\)
• C) \(0.43\)
• D) \(0.218\)

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