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Consider the following scenario. Suppose that your favorite restaurant serves the best ramen dishes in town. Since you eat there so often, you’ve observed the following: the patrons are 40% male, the probability that the patron orders a tofu-based meal given that the patron is male is 30%, while the probability that the order is tofu-based given the patron is female is 50%. One night, you walk into the restaurant and see a tofu-based dish on one of the tables that is partially eaten, but the customer has already left. What is the probability that the customer was female?

NO3-

radium ion

CN-

iodide ion

Se2-

barium ion

CH3COO-

indium ion

potassium ion

Consider the following scenario. Suppose that your favorite…