In this question, why is the cited value 17% corresponding to P(Pint | M)? Why i

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In this question, why is the cited value 17% corresponding to P(Pint | M)?

Why is it not P(M | Pint)?

Problem 1 (11 points) A survey of American adults found that 45% of the women and 17% of the men in the survey use the photo-sharing social media site Pinterest. Women made 52% of the survey respondents. Let's use the following notation: Pint: "survey respondent is a Pinterest user, W: "survey respondent is a woman", M: "survey respondent is a man" You may want to organize this information visually in the space below. This part will NOT be graded. a) Circle the correct answer. The cited value 17% corresponds to which probability notation? P(Pint) P(M) P(Pint and M) P(M | Pint) PPint M)

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17 % - men use pinterest

it is given that 17 % of the men use pinterest hence it P(Pint|M) = P(Pint and M)/ P(M)

P(M | Pint) means p % of Pinterest user are male , which is not given

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