A purchasing office is to assign a contract for computer paper and a contractor for microcomputer disks to any one of three firms bidding for these contracts. (Any one firm could receive both contracts.) Find the probability that a. Firm I received a contract given that both contracts do not go the same firm. b. Firm I receives both contracts. c. Firm I receive the contract for paper given that it does not receive the contract for disks. What assumptions have you made?

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A purchasing office is to assign a contract for computer paper and a contractor for microcomputer disks to any one of three firms bidding for these contracts. (Any one firm could receive both contracts.) Find the probability that
a. Firm I received a contract given that both contracts do not go the same firm.
b. Firm I receives both contracts.
c. Firm I receive the contract for paper given that it does not receive the contract for disks. What assumptions have you made?

 

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