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1)Assume that we tracked the down time of TV service in my local area in the pas

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Question

1)Assume that we tracked the down time of TV service in my local area in the past week (because of storms). The table below shows the total hours of down time and the number of hours that the service was trackeded.

Service Provider

Infinity

Cabletron

Direct TV

Hours tracked

100

125

85

Hours down

3

5

11

Let A be “the service provider being tracked was Infinity”. Let B be “the service provider being tracked was Cabletron”. Let C be “the service provider being tracked was DirectTV”.   Let X be the event “the computer was down”.

a)Find P(A)       (b)   Find P(B)      (c)   Find P(C)       (d)   Find P(A|X)        (e) Find P(B|X)        

f)    Find P(C|X)   (g) Find P(X|A)    (h) Find P(X|B) (g)   Find P(X|C)        (h) Find P(X)      

Service Provider

Infinity

Cabletron

Direct TV

Hours tracked

100

125

85

Hours down

3

5

11

Explanation / Answer

a) P(A)=100/(100+125+85)=100/310=0.32

b) P(B)=125/310=0.40

c) P(C)=85/310=0.27

d) P(X)=19/(19+100+125+85)=0.06