Painted small cube showing red twice
Question
A cube is painted red on all its outside faces and then sliced into unit cubes. You pick one unit cube at random and roll it twice like a die; both times the face on top is red. What is the probability you picked one of the corner cubes?
Short answer
. By Bayes, weight each type by its count times the chance of two red rolls: corners , edges , face centres , and the centre cube . The posterior 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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