Red probability on draw 11 when black turns red
Question
An urn starts with red and black balls. Balls are drawn one at a time: a red ball is put back, while a black ball is removed and a red ball is put in its place. Let be the probability that the th draw is red. Compute to two decimal places.
Short answer
About . The urn always has balls, and each draw turns a black into red with probability (blacks)/, so the expected black count shrinks by the factor per draw. Hence .
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- Conditional Expectation and Variance Revisited
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Worked Examples — Probability Trees, Monty Hall, and Bayesian Updating
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