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1) What is a conditional probability? Explain in your own words

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1) What is a conditional probability? Explain in your own words. 

2) Consider the following table that shows the number of people who work for a company located in Manhattan and live in NY, NJ, or CT.  Fill in this table with any numbers of your choosing. Make sure that your table is orginal and does not match any of the tables posted by your classmates.

                  NY   NJ    CT       

Male       ...       ...      ...

Female    ...     ...      ...

Based upon the data in your table, find probability that randomly selected person from this company:1) is Female AND lives in NY: P(F and NY);2) is Male OR lives in NJ: P(M or NJ);3) lives in CT IF person is Male: P(CT if M);