An individual has 3 different email accounts. Most of her messages, in fact 60% come into account #1, whereas 30%come into account #2, and the remaining 10% into account #3. Of the messages into account #1, only 1% are spam, whereas the corresponding percentages for account #2 and #3 are 3% and 5%, respectively. What is the probability that a randomly selected message is spam?

the probability is 0.02 (2%)

Step-by-step explanation:

defining the event S= the message is spam , then the probability is

P(S) = probability that a randomly selected message comes from account #1 * probability that the message is spam given that the message is from account #1 + probability that a randomly selected message comes from account #2 * probability that the message is spam given that the message is from account #2 + probability that a randomly selected message comes from account #3 * probability that the message is spam given that the message is from account #3 = 0.6 * 0.01 + 0.3 * 0.03 + 0.1 * 0.05 = 0.02 (2%)

thus the probability is 0.02 (2%)

describing distributions is one of the key skills you’ll need to earn a high score on the ap statistics exam. if you need proof of this, just flip through some past exam questions, which can be found at the collegeboard website. you’ll notice that the first free response question is almost always a question requiring you to look at a graph and describe it.

step-by-step explanation: just trying to get points sorry : (