Question

suppose your friends have the following ice cream flavor preferences: 70% of your friends like chocolate (c). the remaining do not like chocolate. 40% of your friends like sprinkles (s) topping. the remaining do not like sprinkles. 25% of your friends who like chocolate (c) also like sprinkles (s). of the friends who like sprinkles, what proportion of this group likes chocolate? (note: some answers are rounded to two decimal places.)

Answer 1

We can start by creating a table to organize the information:

Likes Chocolate (c) Does Not Like Chocolate (~c) Total

Likes Sprinkles (s) 0.25 0.40

Does Not Like Sprinkles (~s) 0.60

Total 0.70 0.30 1.00

We are given that 40% of friends like sprinkles, so we can fill in that cell of the table. We are also given that 25% of friends who like chocolate also like sprinkles, so we can fill in the cell for likes chocolate and likes sprinkles as 0.25.

To find the proportion of friends who like sprinkles and chocolate, we need to divide the number of friends who like both by the total number of friends who like sprinkles:

proportion = likes chocolate and sprinkles / likes sprinkles

proportion = 0.25 / 0.40

proportion = 0.625

So, approximately 62.5% of friends who like sprinkles also like chocolate.