Q: On a midterm exam, students X, Y and Z forgot to sign their papers. Professor knows that they can write a good exam with probabilities 0.8, 0.7, and 0.5, respectively. After the grading, he notices that two unsigned exams are good and one is bad. Given this information, and assuming that students worked independently of each other, what is the probability that the bad exam belongs to student Z?

Q: On a midterm exam, students X, Y and Z forgot to sign their papers. Professor knows that they can write a good exam with probabilities 0.8, 0.7, and 0.5, respectively. After the grading, he notices that two unsigned exams are good and one is bad. Given this information, and assuming that students worked independently of each other, what is the probability that the bad exam belongs to student Z?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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