In a forest, 20% of mushrooms are red, 50% brown, and 30% white. A red mushroom is poisonous with a probability of 20%. A mushro

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In a forest, 20% of mushrooms are red, 50% brown, and 30% white. A red mushroom is poisonous with a probability of 20%. A mushro

om that is not red is poisonous with a probability of 5%. What is the probability that a poisonous mushroom in the forest is red?
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Leona [9.2K] · Answer 1 · 2026-03-26T18:25:39+03:00

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25% of red mushrooms are likely to be poisonous.

zzz [9K] · Answer 2 · 2026-03-26T18:26:38+03:00

Create a straightforward branch diagram to calculate the probabilities. You determine that the odds of encountering a poisonous mushroom is 0.08 and that the odds of it being red and poisonous is 0.04. Therefore, the ratio of poisonous mushrooms that are red is 1/2 or 0.5.