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One-fourth of the residents of the Burning Ridge Estates leave their garage doors open
when they are away from home. The local chief of police estimates that 5 percent of the
garages with open doors will have something stolen, but only 1 percent of those closed will
have something stolen.
if a garage is robbed, what is the probability the doors were left open?
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% of garage doors open = 25%
% of robbery when garage doors are open = 5%
therefore estimated number of robbery when garage doors are ...
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