A hairdresser sets up shop in the central business district. All her customers are bankers or lawyers,
Question:
A hairdresser sets up shop in the central business district. All her customers are bankers or lawyers, with 70% of them being bankers and 30% lawyers. The wicked hairdresser enjoys dyeing the customers’ hair pink and pretending it was an accident. She dyes a banker’s hair pink with probability 0.2, and a lawyer’s with probability 0.4.
The sample space is Ω = {customers}. Define the events B = {customer is a banker}, L = {customer is a lawyer}, P = {customer’s hair is dyed pink}.
a. What’s the probability a customer gets their hair dyed pink?
b. An unlucky customer is seen leaving the hairdresser’s shop with pink hair. What’s the probability she is a lawyer?
c. Sometimes customers sue the hairdresser after a misadventure with pink hair. A banker with pink hair will sue her with probability 0.02, while a lawyer with pink hair will sue her with probability 0.1. The hairdresser is never sued by customers without pink hair. Define the event S = {customer sues the hairdresser}.
Write down the three pieces of information above as probability statements. Hence find P(S), the probability that a customer sues the hairdresser.
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Mathematics And Statistics For Science
ISBN: 9783031053177
1st Edition
Authors: James Sneyd, Rachel M. Fewster, Duncan McGillivray