SOA Exam P Sample Question 186
Study guide: Exam P-1
Bowl I contains eight red balls and six blue balls. Bowl II is empty. Four balls are selected at random, without replacement, and transferred from Bowl I to Bowl II. One ball is then selected at random from Bowl II.
Calculate the conditional probability that two red balls and two blue balls were transferred from Bowl I to Bowl II, given that the ball selected from Bowl II is blue.
- A) 0.21
- B) 0.24
- C) 0.43
- D) 0.49
- E) 0.57
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