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An oil and gas executive needs to fly from Calgary, Alberta (airport code YYC) to Washington-Dulles (airport code IAD) to attend a meeting with lobbyists

An oil and gas executive needs to fly from Calgary, Alberta (airport code YYC) to Washington-Dulles (airport code IAD) to attend a meeting with lobbyists about the building of a certain pipeline. Because there is no direct flight from YYC to IAD, this traveler has fly from YYC to a different city, then connect with a flight to IAD. The traveler has airline options. Airline AA will connect through Dallas, Airline UA will connect through Chicago, or Airline D which connects through Minneapolis-St.Paul. Taking into their past experiences with flying with the three airlines in question, this executive hints that the probability of flying with Airline AA is 0.15. The probability they will fly with Airline D is three times more than the probability of flying with Airline UA. Historical data has shown that 15% of passengers who fly with Airline AA miss their connecting flights in Dallas. Similarly, 10% of Airline D passengers and 30% of Airline UA passengers miss their connecting flights.

The executive has called the office of the lobby-group to say they have missed their connecting flight. Compute the probability that the executive called from Chicago (or is flying Airline UA).

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