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Out of the 56 players on the football team, 24 are on honor roll and 18 have perfectattendance. Seven who are on honor roll also have perfect attendance. If a player is chosen atrandom, what is the probability that they are on honor roll, if it is known that they also haveperfect attendance?

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This is a case of conditional probability.

The total number of players is 56

Given that 24 are on honor roll, the probabillity that a player is on honor roll is

24/56 = 3/7

Seven who are on honor roll also have perfect attendance. It means .

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