Maths in a minute: Conditional probability

Suppose I roll a die and ask you to guess the number I roll. What's the chance of you getting it right?
Maths in a minute: Conditional probability
As long as the die is fair, so all numbers are equally likely to be rolled, the probability of you guessing correctly is 1/6. But what if I tell you, before I uncover the result, that the number I have rolled is odd? Then there are only three possible outcomes: 1, 3, and 5. The chance of you guessing correctly is now 1/3. Halving the number of possible outcomes has doubled your chance of getting it right.

What we have been looking at here is a conditional probability: the probability of you guessing correctly given that I told you that I have rolled an odd number.

More generally, given to events Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 2 and Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 3 the conditional probability of Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 4 occurring given that Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 5 has occurred is written as Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 6 To work it out, you can use the formula
Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 7
where Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 8 is the probability of both Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 9 and Maths in a minute: Conditional probability - Εικόνα 10 occurring.
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