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Stephanie's judges try thousands of cases per year. In anoverwhelming majority of the cases disposed, the verdict stands asrendered. However, some cases are appealed, and of those appealed,some of the cases are reversed. Kristen DelGuzzi of the CincinnatiEnquirer conducted a study of the cases handled by Stephanie judgesover a three-year period. Shown in Table below are the result forcases handled (disposed) by 4 judges in Ken's Court. The purpose ofthe newspaper’s study was to evaluate the performance of thejudges. Appeals are often the result of mistakes made by judges,and the newspaper wanted to know which judges were doing a good joband which were making too many mistakes. You have been called in toassist in the data analysis. Use your knowledge of probability andconditional probability to help with the ranking of the judges.Prepare a report with your rankings of the judges. Also, include ananalysis of the likelihood of appeal and case reversal in thecourt.

1. The probability of cases being appealed and reversed in theKen's Court.

2. The probability of a case being appealed for each judge.

3. The probability of a case being reversed for each judge

4. The probability of reversal given an appeal for eachjudge.

5. Rank the judges. State the criteria you used and provide arationale for your choice.

Ken's Court
Judge	Total Cases Disposed	Appealed Cases	Reversed Case
Penelope Cunningham	2,729	7	1
Patrick Dinkelacker	6,001	19	4
Deborah Gaines	8,799	48	9
Ronald Panioto	12,970	32	3
Total	30,499	106	17