A box contains four cards: One card is black on both sides, one card is red on both sides and two cards are black on one side and red on the other side. One card is selected at random and you can see only one side. i) If the side you see is black, what is the probability that the other side is black?ii) If the side you see is black, what is the probability that the other side is red?

Step-by-step explanation:

A box contains four cards: One card is black on both sides, one card is red on both sides and two cards are black on one side and red on the other side. One card is selected at random and you can see only one side.i) If the side you see is black, what is the probability that the other side is black?ii) If the side you see is black, what is the probability that the other side is red?

Given that:

Number of cards = 4

x = Black on both sides = 1

y = Red on both sides = 1

z = Black on one side, red on one side = 2

.i) If the side you see is black, what is the probability that the other side is black = b

Probability of black

P(x) = 1/4 ; p(b|x) = 1

P(y) = 1/4 ; p(y|x) =

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )

it is 32.5

i hope i could u.