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Jinho has parents who love terrible Mexican food. Just the worst Mexican food you 
can find. When he was growing up, they would regularly go to awful Mexican 
restaurants. His friends tell him that the places he went to weren't typical and that 
Mexican food is great, but Jinho refuses to go to Mexican restaurants, expecting that 
he's much more likely to find a good restaurant if he avoids tacos.
In the United States, roughly 10% of all restaurants are Mexican restaurants. 
Assume that 25% of restaurants are bad. Of those 25%, bad restaurants, 92% are 
non-Mexican.
a. Use Bayes law to determine the probability that a randomly selected 
Mexican restaurant will be bad. Do write out Bayes' formula and plug in to 
solve this. Remember, you can leave your answer as a fraction.