CAIE S1 2014 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2014
SessionNovember
TopicConditional Probability
TypeConditional probability with given score/outcome

3 Jodie tosses a biased coin and throws two fair tetrahedral dice. The probability that the coin shows a head is \(\frac { 1 } { 3 }\). Each of the dice has four faces, numbered \(1,2,3\) and 4 . Jodie's score is calculated from the numbers on the faces that the dice land on, as follows:
  • if the coin shows a head, the two numbers from the dice are added together;
  • if the coin shows a tail, the two numbers from the dice are multiplied together.
Find the probability that the coin shows a head given that Jodie's score is 8 .