Painted cube piece showing five blank faces
Question
The outside of a cube is painted blue, and the cube is then sliced into unit cubes. One unit cube is chosen at random and placed so that you can see of its faces at random (one face hidden), and all five visible faces are unpainted. Given this, what is the probability that the chosen cube has exactly one painted face?
Short answer
. Only the centre cube (no paint) or one of the 6 face-centre cubes (one painted face, hidden with chance ) can show five blank faces. Bayes gives .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Worked Examples — Probability Trees, Monty Hall, and Bayesian Updating
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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