Mr. Dupont is a professional wine taster. When given a French wine, he will identify it…
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Mr. Dupont is a professional wine taster. When given a French wine, he will identify it with probability 0.9 correctly as French, and will mistake it for a Californian wine with probability 0.1 . When given a Californian wine, he will identify it with probability 0.8 correctly as Californian, and will mistake it for a French wine with probability 0.2 . Suppose that Mr. Dupont is given ten unlabelled glasses of wine, three with French and seven with Californian wines. He randomly picks a glass, tries the wine, and Explanation:mnly says : “French”. The probability that the wine he tasted was Californian, is nearly equal to
- 0.14
- 0.24
- 0.34
- 0.44
Answer
(C) 0.34
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