Question

The event of pedestrians walking is represented by event A and the event of cars pulled over for speeding is represented by event B. If these events are independent, and P(A) = 0.27 and P(B) = 0.71, what is P(B|A)?

Answer 1

For independent events A and B, the conditional probability P(B|A) is equal to P(B). Since P(B) is 0.71, the probability P(B|A) is also 0.71.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question involves calculating the conditional probability P(B|A), which represents the probability of event B happening given that event A has already occurred. When two events are independent, P(B|A) = P(B), because the occurrence of A does not affect the probability of B occurring. Given that P(A) = 0.27 and P(B) = 0.71, and the events are independent, we can deduce that P(B|A) = P(B) = 0.71.