Year: 2000
Paper: 1
Question Number: 13
Course: LFM Stats And Pure
Section: Conditional Probability
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Difficulty Rating: 1484.0
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Banger Rating: 1484.7
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Every person carries two genes which can each be either of
type $A$ or of type $B$.
It is known that $81\%$ of the population are $AA$ (i.e. both genes are
of type $A$), $18\%$ are $AB$ (i.e. there is one gene of type $A$
and one of type $B$) and $1\%$ are $BB$. A child inherits
one gene from each of its parents. If one parent is $AA$, the child
inherits a gene of type $A$ from that parent;
if the parent is $BB$, the child
inherits a gene of type $B$ from that parent;
if the parent
is $AB$, the inherited gene is equally likely to be $A$ or $B$.
\begin{questionparts}
\item
Given that two $AB$ parents have four children,
show that the probability
that two of them are $AA$ and two of them are $BB$ is $3/128$.
\item
My mother is $AB$ and I am $AA$.
Find the probability that my father is $AB$.
\end{questionparts}