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1) A book manufacturing company has two different production plants, plant A and plant B. 40%...

1) A book manufacturing company has two different production plants, plant A and plant B. 40% of books come from plant A. Of the books that come from plant A 30% are defective and 70% work as intended. Of the books from plant B 10% are defective and 90% work as intended. On top of this 10% of the defective books from plant A explode.

A) Draw a tree diagram of this data.

B) What is the probability of randomly selecting

C) What is the probability of randomly selecting adefective book which doesn’t explode?

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please note question b is incomplete. But yet I not skipped and assumed that P(selecting a Non defective book).. It may help you in your studies..

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