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With a 0.5% chance of selecting a 'faulty' coin with both heads, and a 99.5% chance of picking up a 'fair' coin, you are running your experiments of coin flipping and you end up getting 10 consecutive heads. What's the probability that you picked up the fair coin, given the information above? Hint: Use Bayes' Formula.

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          With a 0.5% chance of selecting a 'faulty' coin with both heads,
and a 99.5% chance of picking up a 'fair' coin, you are running
your experiments of coin flipping and you end up getting 10
consecutive heads. What's the probability that you picked up the
fair coin, given the information above? Hint: Use Bayes' Formula.

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Allan G. Bluman 9th Edition

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07/05/2022

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This is simply (0.5)^10 = 0.0009765625. Show more…

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With a 0.5% chance of selecting a 'faulty' coin with both heads, and a 99.5% chance of picking up a 'fair' coin, you are running your experiments of coin flipping and you end up getting 10 consecutive heads. What's the probability that you picked up the fair coin, given the information above? Hint: Use Bayes' Formula.