Year: 1990
Paper: 2
Question Number: 16
Course: LFM Stats And Pure
Section: Conditional Probability
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Each day, I choose at random between my brown trousers, my grey trousers
and my expensive but fashionable designer jeans. Also in my wardrobe,
I have a black silk tie, a rather smart brown and fawn polka-dot tie,
my regimental tie, and an elegant powder-blue cravat which I was given
for Christmas. With my brown or grey trousers, I choose ties (including
the cravat) at random, except of course that I don\textquoteright t
wear the cravat with the brown trousers or the polka-dot tie with
the grey trousers. With the jeans, the choice depends on whether it
is Sunday or one of the six weekdays: on weekdays, half the time I
wear a cream-coloured sweat-shirt with $E=mc{}^{2}$ on the front
and no tie; otherwise, and on Sundays (when naturally I always wear
a tie), I just pick at random from my four ties.
This morning, I received through the post a compromising photograph
of myself. I often receive such photographs and they are equally likely
to have been taken on any day of the week. However, in this particular
photograph, I am wearing my black silk tie. Show that, on the basis
of this information, the probability that the photograph was taken
on Sunday is $11/68$.
I should have mentioned that on Mondays I lecture on calculus and
I therefore always wear my jeans (to make the lectures seem easier
to understand). Find, on the basis of the complete information, the
probability that the photograph was taken on Sunday.
[The phrase `at random' means `with equal probability'.]