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    MHB Probability of a Percent given a Percent

    That makes sense now, thank you Captain!
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    MHB Probability of a Percent given a Percent

    That is where I am getting confused in starting this problem. The details given are as follows: A certain town is made up of 38.6% brown haired people, 57.1% blondes and 4.3% redheads. In the last town mayor race, votes were cast by 43.1% of the brown haired people, 40.7% blondes, and 51.7%...
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    MHB Probability of a Percent given a Percent

    I'm hoping that I can gain some insight from fellow users in how to start off a probability question when given a percent 'given that' and another percent. For example, if an election is split into percentages of votes per party and you know the party allegiance percentages of the town, how...