Common Core Standards: Math
5. Recognize and explain the concepts of conditional probability and independence in everyday language and everyday situations. For example, compare the chance of having lung cancer if you are a smoker with the chance of being a smoker if
Common Core Standards: Math
5. Recognize and explain the concepts of conditional probability and independence in everyday language and everyday situations. For example, compare the chance of having lung cancer if you are a smoker with the chance of being a smoker if you have lung cancer.
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This modern chicken-or-egg argument is just one question that could be answered using a statistical approach. We could use a set of sample data to determine conditional probabilities from which we c