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There are 8 RED boxes that contain 3 nickels and 7 quarters each, and 2 GREEN...

There are 8 RED boxes that contain 3 nickels and 7 quarters each, and 2 GREEN boxes that contain 9 nickels and 1 quarter. A coin is drawn randomly from one of the boxes.

  1. What is the probability that selected coin is nickel?
  2. If it is nickel, what is probability that it is taken from RED box?

Using Ti-34 calculator

Equations/answer written out using

binomcdf(x,x,x)

Binompdf(x,x,x)

Invnorm

InvT

tcdf

If possible/needed to solve the equation

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Probability that selected coin is nickel is 0.42

If selected coin is nickel, then probability that it is taken from red box is 0.5714

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