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7 February, 13:09

You ask a neighbor to water a sickly plant while you are on vacation. Without water the plant will die with probability 0.7. With water it will die with probability 0.6. You are 86 % certain the neighbor will remember to water the plant.

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  1. 7 February, 16:17
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    Answer: So the plant without water has a 0.6 chance of living. with water has a 0.7, so a 0.1 increase of chance if the neighbor comes.

    the probability that the neighbor to water the plant is of 0.86.

    Then the probability of the plant to live is 0.6 + 0.1*0.86 = 0.686.

    So the plant have a 68.6% probability to live
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