Question
Consider a bag containing 10 balls of which 4 are black and remaining white . Now 5 balls are drawn from this bag and put in another bag (without noting the colour of balls). Finally one ball is drawn from the second bag and it is found to be white. Find the probability that 2 white balls had been drawn in the first draw.
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Sol. [Key Concept: Hypergeometric / Bayes on the 10-ball (4 black) bag.]
$E_{i} \rightarrow$ the event that ' i ' white are drawn from the first bag
$A \rightarrow$ one ball drawn from second bag is white.
$$\begin{matrix} P\left( E_{2}/A \right) & \ = \frac{P\left( \text{ }A/E_{2} \right)P\left( E_{2} \right)}{\sum_{i = 1}^{5}\mspace{2mu}\mspace{2mu} P\left( E_{i} \right)P\left( \text{ }A/E_{i} \right)} \\ & \ = \frac{\frac{\ ^{4}C_{3}\ ^{6}C_{2}}{\ ^{10}C_{5}} \times \frac{2}{5}}{\frac{4}{5} \times \frac{\ ^{4}C_{1}\ ^{6}C_{4}}{\ ^{10}C_{5}} + \frac{3}{5}\frac{\ ^{4}C_{2}\ ^{6}C_{3}}{\ ^{10}C_{5}} + \frac{2}{5}\frac{\ ^{4}C_{3}\ ^{6}C_{2}}{\ ^{10}C_{5}} + \frac{\ ^{4}C_{4}\ ^{6}C_{1}}{\ ^{10}C_{5}} \times \frac{1}{5}} \\ & \ = \frac{4 \times 15 \times 2}{4 \times 4 \times 15 + 3 \times 6 \times 20 + 2 \times 4 \times 15 + 6} = \frac{20}{121} \end{matrix}$$
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