Stores A, B, and C have 50,75 , and 100 employees and,...

Stores $A, B$, and $C$ have 50,75 , and 100 employees and, respectively, 50 , 60 , and 70 percent of these are women. Resignations are equally likely among all employees, regardless of sex. One employee resigns, and this is a woman. What is the probability that she works in store $C$ ?

Key Concepts

Conditional Probability

Conditional probability is the likelihood of an event occurring given that another event has already occurred. In problems like this one, where the outcome is known to have a particular characteristic (in this case, the resigning employee is a woman), conditional probability is used to update the likelihoods of different underlying causes (i.e., which store she could be from).

Bayes' Theorem

Bayes' Theorem is a fundamental rule in probability that describes how to update the probabilities of hypotheses when given evidence. It relates the probability of a cause given observed data to the probability of the data given that cause, along with the prior probability of the cause. This theorem is essential for calculating the probability that the woman who resigned belongs to a specific store based on known proportions.

Law of Total Probability

The Law of Total Probability is a principle that allows one to compute the probability of an event by considering all the distinct ways that event can occur. In contexts like this, it involves summing over the contributions from each group or store, weighted by the prior probability of an employee being from that group and the likelihood of the observed characteristic (being a woman) from that group.

Weighted Probability Distribution

Weighted probability distribution refers to situations where outcomes are not equally likely but are instead influenced by different factors such as group size or percentage characteristics. In applications like these, where stores have varying numbers of employees and different proportions of women, the overall probability of an event is a weighted sum reflecting these differences.

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