Prob Qn'

• April 10th 2008, 07:44 AM
matty888
Prob Qn'
In testing the water supply for various cities for two kinds of impurities commonly found in water, it was found that 40% had an impurity of type A and 50% had an impurity of type B. 20% of the water supplies had neither sort of impurity (that is 20% did not have type A impurity and it did not have type B impurity). If a city is chosen at random, what is the probability that its water supply has exactly one type of impurity?
• April 11th 2008, 12:51 AM
mr fantastic
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Originally Posted by matty888
In testing the water supply for various cities for two kinds of impurities commonly found in water, it was found that 40% had an impurity of type A and 50% had an impurity of type B. 20% of the water supplies had neither sort of impurity (that is 20% did not have type A impurity and it did not have type B impurity). If a city is chosen at random, what is the probability that its water supply has exactly one type of impurity?

Draw a Karnaugh table:

$\, \begin{tabular}{l | c | c | c} & A & A\, ' & \\ \hline B & & & 0.5 \\ \hline B\, ' & & 0.2 & \\ \hline & 0.4 & & 1 \\ \end{tabular}$

I'm sure you can put in the missing probabilities.

Use the table to get the values of Pr(A and B') and Pr(A' and B). Add these values together.

For checking purposes: I get 0.3 + 0.4 = 0.7.