A company is conducting sweepstakes, and ships two boxes of game pieces to a particular store. Box A has 7% of its contents being winners, while 4% of the contents of box B are winners. Box A contains 22% of the total tickets. If the contents of both boxes are mixed in a drawer and a ticket is chosen at random, what is the probability it is a winner?

A company is conducting sweepstakes, and ships two boxes of game pieces to a particular store. Box A has 7% of its contents being winners, while 4% of the contents of box B are winners. Box A contains 22% of the total tickets. If the contents of both boxes are mixed in a drawer and a ticket is chosen at random, what is the probability it is a winner?

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A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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