Answer to Question #5020 in Statistics and Probability for Revika

Question

The probability of a cricket match to be played between India and Sri Lanka at one of the three selected venues X,Y and Z are 0.25, 0.35 and 0.40 respectively. The probability that the match being disturbed at these three venues are 0.05, 0.04 and 0.02 respectively. A match is played and disturbed, what is the probability that the match was played at X?

Answer 1

Let's formalize the problem statements:

P(X) = 0.25
P(Y) = 0.35
P(Z) = 0.40
P(D|X) = 0.05
P(D|Y) = 0.04
P(D|Z) = 0.02

Now let's use the Bayes' theorem to determine the probability that the match was played at X:

P(X|D) = P(D|X)P(X) / [P(D|X)P(X)+P(D|Y)P(Y)+P(D|Z)P(Z)] = 0.05*0.25 / (0.05*0.25 + 0.04*0.35 + 0.02*0.40) = 0.0125/0.0345 ≈ 0.362.