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I was reading probability from Sheldon Ross and found below example.

A purchaser of electrical components buys them in lots of size 10. It is his policy to inspect 3 components from a lot and to accept the lot if all the 3 are nondefective. If 30 percent of the lots have 4 defective components and 70 percent have only 1, what proportion of lots does the purchaser reject?

And the solution is presented like this

Let A denote the event that the purchaser accepts a lot. Now,

P(A)= $P(A|lot\,has\,4\,defectives\,)\frac{3}{10}+P(A|lot\,has\,1\,defective)\frac{7}{10}$

I understood the conditional probability part but why they have multiplied it with $\frac{3}{10}$ in the first part and $\frac{7}{10}$ in the second?
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final answer is 46%
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Yes.. Shaik did a small mistake in calculating 7*7. Then the answer is coming 46.
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I updated my comment...

Oh god, save me from calculation mistakes..

Thanks @MiNiPanda
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