CAIE S1 2022 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2022
SessionNovember
TopicConditional Probability
TypeGiven conditional, find joint or marginal

5 Eric has three coins. One of the coins is fair. The other two coins are each biased so that the probability of obtaining a head on any throw is \(\frac { 1 } { 4 }\), independently of all other throws. Eric throws all three coins at the same time. Events \(A\) and \(B\) are defined as follows.
\(A\) : all three coins show the same result
\(B\) : at least one of the biased coins shows a head
  1. Show that \(\mathrm { P } ( B ) = \frac { 7 } { 16 }\).
  2. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( A \mid B )\).
    The random variable \(X\) is the number of heads obtained when Eric throws the three coins.
  3. Draw up the probability distribution table for \(X\).