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A wilderness retail store asked a consulting company to do an analysis of their hiking shoe customers. The consulting company gathered data from each customer that purchased hiking shoes, and recorded the shoe brand and the customer's level of happiness. A Footlong shoe A Toes Knows shoe 4 5 Displeased Pleased 5 5 What is the probability that a randomly selected customer is pleased or purchased a Footlong shoe? Simplify any fractions.

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The probability is given by the follwoing formula:

Probability = favorable outcomes / total outcomes

In this case, the favorable outcome is the number of customers that are in the group of pleased or in the group of those who bought the footlong shoe, we can find the number of people by summing up the number of pleased customers that bought eit

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