From: John Stick (johnstick@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 20:46:57 MST
Psy-kosh,
You had it right up to the last calculation: try reducing that fraction
again.
Psy-Kosh wrote:
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>>A couple of #SL4ers have asked me for this, so I'm posting it to
>>SL4-the-mailing-list:
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>>Suppose you have a large barrel containing a number of plastic
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>eggs. Some
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>>eggs contain pearls, the rest contain nothing. Some eggs are
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>painted
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>>blue, the rest are painted red. Suppose that 40% of the eggs are
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>painted
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>>blue, 5/13 of the eggs containing pearls are painted blue, and 20%
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>of the
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>>eggs are both empty and painted red. What is the probability that
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>an egg
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>>painted blue contains a pearl?
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>>As a check on your calculations, the likelihood that a red egg is
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>empty,
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>>divided by the likelihood that an egg contains a pearl, equals
>>approximately .51. To use this information in the problem, of
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>course,
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>>would be cheating.
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>Given:
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>P(B)=2/5
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>P(B|P)=5/13
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>P(~B,~P)=1/5
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>We have
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>1-P(B)=P(~B)=3/5
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>We can subtract the third item from the fourth to get the probability
>that an egg contains a pearl and is red:
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>P(~B)-P(~B,~P)=P(~B,P)=2/5
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>Also we have the probability that an egg containing a pearl is red:
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>1-P(B|P)=P(~B|P)=8/13
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>Now, we are able to determine the total probability that an egg
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>P(~B|P)P(P)=P(~B,P) so P(P)=P(~B,P)/P(~B|P)=(2/5)/(8/13)
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>P(P)=13/20
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>So.... (Hail Bayes! All Hail Rationality! :)
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>P(P|B)=P(B|P)P(P)/P(B)
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>P(P|B)=(5/13)*(13/20)/(2/5)=1/10=10%
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