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(a) What is the probability that a randomly selected subject is pregnant, given that
the test result is positive?
(b) What is the probability that a randomly selected subject is NOT pregnant, given
that the test result is negative?
3. You ask your neighbour to feed your dog while you are on holiday. Without food, it
will fall ill with a probability of 0.8. With food, this probability reduces to 0.1. You
are 90% sure that your neighbour will remember to feed your dog. Now
(a) What is the probability that the dog is not ill when you return?
(b) If your dog is ill, what is the probability that your neighbour forgot to feed it?
4. How many different licence plates containing 2 letters and 3 numbers can be formed?
A person, who has seen a car drive away from a crime scene, reports to the police that
the licence plate of the car had KD6 as the first three symbols and is sure that the
numbers in the licence plate dont repeat. How many cars can be cleared by the police
that it was not used in the crime?
5. A coin is tossed twice. Consider the following events.
A: Heads on the first toss.
B : Heads on the second toss.
C : The two tosses come out the same.
(a) Show that A, B, and C are pairwise independent but not independent.
(b) Show that C is independent of A and B but not of A B.