In: Statistics and Probability
At a picnic, two teams of kids played a soccer game, after which one player's name was randomly chosen to win a prize. There are 22 kids in total. The winning team in the soccer game consists of 8 girls and 3 boys and the losing team consists of 4 girls and 7 boys. Given that the prize winner is a boy, what is the probability that he also comes from the winning soccer team?
Hint: Let E and F be events in a sample space S with P(F) > 0. The conditional probability of E given F is P(E|F) = P(E∩F) / P(F) = n(E∩F) / n(F)
Solution:
Given: There are 22 kids in total. The winning team in the soccer game consists of 8 girls and 3 boys and the losing team consists of 4 girls and 7 boys.
Girls | Boys | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
winning soccer team | 8 | 3 | 11 |
Losing soccer team | 4 | 7 | 11 |
Total | 12 | 10 | 22 |
We have to find:
P( prize winner comes from the winning soccer team given that he is a boy) = ...........?
that is find:
P( W | B ) =............?