2019 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 15
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[hide]Problem 15
On a beach people are wearing sunglasses and people are wearing caps. Some people are wearing both sunglasses and caps. If one of the people wearing a cap is selected at random, the probability that this person is also wearing sunglasses is . If instead, someone wearing sunglasses is selected at random, what is the probability that this person is also wearing a cap?
Solution 1
The number of people wearing caps and sunglasses is . So then, 14 people out of the 50 people wearing sunglasses also have caps.
Solution 2
Let be the event that a randomly selected person is wearing sunglasses, and let be the event that a randomly selected person is wearing a cap. We can write in two ways: or . Suppose there are people in total. Then and Additionally, we know that the probability that someone is wearing sunglasses given that they wear a cap is , so . We let , which is the quantity we want to find, be equal to . Substituting in, we get
Note: This solution makes use of the dependent events probability formula, , where represents the probability that occurs given that has already occurred and represents the probability of both and happening.
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