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\o reriat, REQUIRED ta J, white paper sce of plywoo" A piece of pl im penfencil scale, a pair of dice Onenve ‘To explain the computation of conditional probability of a given event A, when event B has already occurred, through an example of throwing a pair of dice. ‘Activity Meruop oF Construction 1, Paste a white paper on a piece of plywood of a convenient size. 2. Make’a square and divide it into 36 unit squares of size Iem each (see Fig. @). 3. Write pair of numbers as shown in the figure. Fig. @ scanned with OKEN Scanner Denons: TONSTRaATION . Fig, 2 reves, Si¥e8 al Possible PIESENS the oy Sulcomes of the given experiment. Hence, it > cee me “Mple space of the experiment SE We have to fj : i Bhas aly ly ee the conditional probability of an event A if an event the dice™ a aie ie Where A is the event “a number 4 appears on both : We have to find PATI event "4 has appeared on at least one of the dice"i.c, From ¥; ae ean % number of outcomes favourable to A = | ee f outcomes favourable to B = ul umber ; of outcomes favourable to A B = | 4.(i) Pye 36" ' of getting a GW) PAnB)= 5 : : P(AMB) i) PAI) = | of the sample space of the (B) ‘periment, and then finding the Onin probability A from it : 1. Outcome(s) favourable to A : Ley, nays | alee Kee 3 2. Outcomes favourable to B: _~n (By=_ TL (3 47 3. Outcomes favourable to AN B : fue wWhen@anBs) wy) 4.P(AMB)= Von i v4 (4,3) 5. P(AILB)= = w APPLICATION 136 (re This activity is helpful in understanding the concept of conditional 1 probability, which is further used in Bayes’ theorem, ‘Mathematics 195 4 kage] @ scanned with OKEN Scanner

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