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Given that a white chip is drawn, what is the probability that the coin came up tails.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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A biased coin, twice as likely to come up as tails, is tossed once. If it shows heads a chip is drawn from an urn I which contains 3 white chips and 4 red chips; if it shows tails a chip is drawn form urn II, which contains 6 white chips and 3 red chips. Given that a white chip is drawn, what is the probability that the coin came up tails.

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