Suppose there are two full bowls of cookies. bowl #1 has 10 chocolate chip and 30 plain cookies, while bowl #2 has 20 of each. o

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Suppose there are two full bowls of cookies. bowl #1 has 10 chocolate chip and 30 plain cookies, while bowl #2 has 20 of each. o

ur friend stacy picks a bowl at random, and then picks a cookie at random. we may assume there is no reason to believe stacy treats one bowl differently from another, likewise for the cookies. the cookie turns out to be a plain one. how probable is it that stacy picked it out of bowl #1?

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GuDViN [60] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-20T14:02:59+03:00

GuDViN [60]2 years ago

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Its an even probability that she picked it out of either bowl, theyre trying to trick you by saying which bowl has more plain lol.