Total Probability Theorem and Bayes' Theorem
Important Questions on Total Probability Theorem and Bayes' Theorem
In a bolt factory, machines manufacture bolts that are respectively and of the factory's total output. The machines respectively produce and defective bolts. A bolt is drawn at random from the product and is found to be defective. What is the probability that it was manufactured by machine ?

In a group of people, are smokers and non-vegetarian; are smokers and vegetarian and the remaining are non-smokers and vegetarian. Their chances of getting a particular chest disorder are and respectively. A person is chosen from the group at random and is found to be suffering from the chest disorder. The probability that the selected person is a smoker and non-vegetarian is :

Of cigarette smoking population are men and are women, of these men and of these women smoke Wills. The probability that a person seen smoking a Wills to be men is

A bag contains coins. If the probability that the bag contains exactly biased coin is and that of exactly biased coin is , then the probability that all the biased coin are sorted out from the bag in exactly draws is

There are two urns. There are white & black balls in the first urn and white & black balls in the second urn. One ball is taken from the first urn & placed into the second. Now, the probability of drawing a white ball from the second urn is

In four schools the percentage of girls students is , respectively. From a school selected at random, one student is picked up at random, and it is found that the student is a girl. The probability that the school selected is , is

Bag contains green and red balls and bag contains red and green balls. One bag is taken at random and a ball is drawn and noted it is green. The probability that it comes from bag is

There are two boxes. One box contains white balls and black balls. The other box contains yellow balls and black balls. If a box is selected at random and from it, a ball is drawn, the probability that the ball is black is

A student answers a multiple choice question with alternatives, of which exactly one is correct. The probability that he knows the correct answer is . If he does not know the correct answer, he randomly ticks one answer. Given that he has answered the question correctly, the probability that he did not tick the answer randomly, is

