Participants in a study of a new medication received either medication A or a placebo. Find P(placebo and improvement). You may find it helpful to make a tree diagram of the problem on a separate piece of paper.Of all those who participated in the study, 80% received medication A. Of those who received medication A, 76% reported an improvement. Of those who received the placebo, 62% reported no improvement. full sentence

The probability of a participant receiving a placebo and reporting an improvement is 0.20 * 0.38 = 0.076, or 7.6%.