What is the Probability?

Question

A company manufactures car batteries at three plants. Plant A produces 850 batteries a day, plant B produces 630 batteries a day, and plant C produces 520 batteries a day. Experience indicates that 4% of the batteries produced at plant A are defective, 5% of the batteries produced at plant B are defective, and 2% produced at plant C are defective. each day, all batteries produced produced are shipped to the company's warehouse. Suppose that a battery randomly selected in the warehouse is found to be defective, what is the probability that it was produced at a)Plant A?   b) Plant B?   c) Plant C?

Answer 1

1. the extent to which something is probable; the likelihood of something happening or being the case.

    

   synonyms:

   likelihood, prospect, expectation, chance, chances, odds More "the probability of winning"

   • a probable or the most probable event.

      

   • the extent to which an event is likely to occur, measured by the ratio of the favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible.