There are three coins in a box. One is a two-headed coin, another is a fair coin, and the third is a biased coin that comes up tails 25 percent of the time. When one of the three coins is selected at random and flipped, it shows heads. What is the probability that it was the two-headed coin?

There are three coins in a box. One is a two-headed coin, another is a fair coin, and the third is a biased coin that comes up tails 25 percent of the time. When one of the three coins is selected at random and flipped, it shows heads. What is the probability that it was the two-headed coin?

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Advanced Engineering Mathematics

10th Edition

ISBN:9780470458365

Author:Erwin Kreyszig

Publisher:Erwin Kreyszig

Chapter2: Second-order Linear Odes

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1RQ

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