SOA Exam P Sample Question 490
Study guide: Exam P-1
A person mails four packages. Two are fragile and two are not.
Each fragile package has probability 0.2 of breaking; each non-fragile package has probability 0.1 of breaking. The occurrences of packages breaking are mutually independent.
Exactly two packages break.
Calculate the probability that both broken packages were fragile.
- A)
0.032 - B)
0.040 - C)
0.167 - D)
0.336 - E)
0.609
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