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Date November 2015 Marks available 6 Reference code 15N.2.hl.TZ0.6
Level HL only Paper 2 Time zone TZ0
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Question

Josie has three ways of getting to school. \(30\% \) of the time she travels by car, \(20\% \) of the time she rides her bicycle and \(50\% \) of the time she walks.

When travelling by car, Josie is late \(5\% \) of the time. When riding her bicycle she is late \(10\% \) of the time. When walking she is late \(25\% \) of the time. Given that she was on time, find the probability that she rides her bicycle.

Markscheme

EITHER

     M1A1A1

 

Note:     Award M1 for a two-level tree diagram, A1 for correct first level probabilities, and A1 for correct second level probabilities.

 

OR

\({\text{P}}(B|L') = \frac{{{\text{P}}(L'|B){\text{P}}(B)}}{{{\text{P}}(L'|B){\text{P}}(B) + {\text{P}}(L'|C){\text{P}}(C) + {\text{P}}(L'|W){\text{P}}(Q)}}\;\;\;\left( { = \frac{{{\text{P}}(B \cap L'}}{{{\text{P}}(L')}}} \right)\)     (M1)(A1)(A1)

THEN

\({\text{P}}(B|L') = \frac{{0.9 \times 0.2}}{{0.9 \times 0.2 + 0.95 \times 0.3 + 0.75 \times 0.5}}\;\;\;\left( { = \frac{{0.18}}{{0.84}}} \right)\)     M1A1

\( = 0.214\;\;\;\left( { = \frac{3}{{14}}} \right)\)     A1

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Syllabus sections

Topic 5 - Core: Statistics and probability » 5.4 » Use of Bayes’ theorem for a maximum of three events.

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