Conditional Probability
What is the chance that the other ball I have drawn out is also red?
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Satyen Nabar
Box I contains 1 red ball and 2 white balls. Box II contains 2 red balls and 1 white ball. One ball is drawn randomly from box I and transferred to box II.
Then, a ball is drawn randomly from box II and it is red. What is the probability that the transferred ball was white?
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shazia ali
There are two bags \(A\) and \(B\). Bag \(A\) contains \(n\) white balls and \(2\) black balls while bag \(B\) contains \(2\) white balls and \(n\) black balls . One of the two bags is selected at random and two balls are drawn from it without replacement . We know that if both the balls drawn are white balls, the probability of bag \(A\) being selected to draw the balls is \(\frac{6}{7}\). Find the value of \(n\).
by
Nikhil Saxena
On planet Brilliantia, there are two types of creatures: mathematicians and non-mathematicians.
Mathematicians tell the truth \(\frac{6}{7}\) of the time and lie only \(\frac{1}{7}\) of the time, while non-mathematicians tell the truth \(\frac{1}{5}\) of the time and lie \(\frac{4}{5}\) of the time.
It is also known that there is a \(\frac{2}{3}\) chance a creature from Brilliantia is a mathematician and a \(\frac{1}{3}\) chance that it is a non-mathematician, but there is no way of differentiating from these two types.
You are visiting Brilliantia on a research trip. During your stay, you come across a creature who states that it has found a one line proof for Fermat's Last Theorem. Immediately after that, a second creature shows up and states that the first creature's statement was a true one.
If the probability that the first creature's statement was actually true is \(\frac{a}{b}\), for some coprime positive integers \(a, b\), find the value of \(b - a\).
by
Steven Yuan
Calvin flips a fair coin before he sees a run of an odd number of heads, followed by a tail. What is the expected number of times Calvin must flip the coin?
by
Ahaan Rungta