Answer to Question #184179 in Statistics and Probability for Nirali

Question

Suppose there are two bags with first bag contains 3 white and 2 black balls, second bag contains 2 white and 4 black balls. One ball is transferred from bag I to bag II and then a ball is drawn from the latter. It happens to be white. What is the probability that the transferred ball is white?

Answer 1

This is a mutually exclusive way in which one ball is transferred from the first bag to the second bag to determine a white ball to be the one transferred then the probability of white ball in the second bag will be 3/7