Calculating conditional probability
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sophia made the following two-way table categorizing the us senators in 2015 by their political party and
whether or not it was their first term in the senate.
democrat
independent
1
total
40
first term
returning
total -
11
33
44
republican
28
28
26
34
60
1
2
100
find the probability that the senator was in the democratic party, given that the senator was returning to
office
p (democrat returning) =
ret
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