Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences · Problem 16.3.20

FUNCTIONS OF A COMPLEX VARIABLE — Mary Boas

Mathematics — Methods · probability-theorems-transistors

Problem

Some transistors of two different kinds (call them NN and PP) are stored in two boxes. You know that there are 6 NN's in one box and that 2 NN's and 3 PP's got mixed in the other box, but you don't know which box is which. You select a box and a transistor from it at random and find that it is an NN; what is the probability that it came from the box with the 6 NN's? From the other box? If another transistor is picked from the same box as the first, what is the probability that it is also an NN?

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