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At LaGuardia Airport for a certain nightly flight, the probability that it will rain is 0.19 and the probability that the flight will be delayed is 0.08 . The probability that it will not rain and the flight will leave on time is 0.78 . What is the probability that the flight would leave on time when it is not raining? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.
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At LaGuardia Airport for a certain nightly flight, the probability that it will rain is 00.1919 and the probability that the flight will be delayed is 00.0808 . The probability that it will not rain and the flight will leave on time is 00.7878 . What is the probability that the flight would leave on time when it is not raining? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.\newlineAnswer:

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Q. At LaGuardia Airport for a certain nightly flight, the probability that it will rain is 00.1919 and the probability that the flight will be delayed is 00.0808 . The probability that it will not rain and the flight will leave on time is 00.7878 . What is the probability that the flight would leave on time when it is not raining? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.\newlineAnswer:
  1. Denote Events: Let's denote the events as follows:\newlineR: It will rain.\newlineD: The flight will be delayed.\newline\(\newlineeg R\): It will not rain.\newline\(\newlineeg D\): The flight will leave on time.\newlineWe are given the following probabilities:\newlineP(R)=0.19P(R) = 0.19\newlineP(D)=0.08P(D) = 0.08\newlineP(\(\newlineeg R \text{ and } \newlineeg D) = 0.78\)\newlineWe need to find the probability that the flight leaves on time given that it is not raining, which is P(\(\newlineeg D \,|\, \newlineeg R)\).
  2. Find P(\(\newlineeg R)\): First, we need to find the probability that it is not raining, which is P(\(\newlineeg R)\). This is the complement of the probability that it will rain.P(egR)=1P(R)P( eg R) = 1 - P(R)P(egR)=10.19P( eg R) = 1 - 0.19P(egR)=0.81P( eg R) = 0.81
  3. Calculate P(\(\newlineeg D | \newlineeg R)\): Now, we use the definition of conditional probability to find P(\(\newlineeg D | \newlineeg R)\). The formula for conditional probability is:\newlineP(egDegR)=P(egD and egR)P(egR)P( eg D | eg R) = \frac{P( eg D \text{ and } eg R)}{P( eg R)}\newlineWe already have P(\(\newlineeg D \text{ and } \newlineeg R) = 0.78\) and P(\(\newlineeg R) = 0.81\).
  4. Substitute and Solve: Substitute the values into the formula to find P(\(\newlineeg D | \newlineeg R)\):P(egDegR)=0.780.81P( eg D | eg R) = \frac{0.78}{0.81}P(egDegR)0.963P( eg D | eg R) \approx 0.963

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