Orange ball after moving 300 balls between urns
Question
Urn holds orange and yellow balls, and urn holds orange and yellow balls. A random set of balls is taken from urn and added to urn . A single ball is then chosen uniformly at random from the balls now in urn . What is the probability it is orange?
Short answer
. The transferred balls are on average orange, so urn expects orange balls out of . By the law of total probability the chance of orange is .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Worked Examples — Probability Trees, Monty Hall, and Bayesian Updating
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
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