What is conditional probability?

A. a set of all possible outcomes from a given experiment
B. the number of items in a particular category in a set of data
C. the chance that a certain event will occur given that another event has occurred
D. a representation showing frequencies of all possible outcomes for two variables

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Conditional probability is defined as:

C. the chance that a certain event will occur given that another event has occurred.

This concept is typically denoted as P(A | B), which reads "the probability of event A occurring given that event B has occurred."