SOA Exam P Sample Question 547
Study guide: Exam P-1
A weather satellite is sending a binary code of 0s and 1s describing a tropical storm. Suppose 70% of the message being sent is 0s and there is an 80% chance of any particular 0 or 1 being received correctly. (If a 1 is sent and incorrectly received, it is received as a 0, and vice versa.)
Calculate the probability that a 0 was sent, given that a 1 was received.
- A)
0.16 - B)
0.34 - C)
0.37 - D)
0.63 - E)
0.90
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