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2 coins (Posted on 2016-03-18)

Suppose you have 2 identical-looking coins: one that is fair and one that comes up heads 75% of the time.
You randomly chose one of them, flip it 3 times and it comes up as H-H-T.

What is the chance that the coin you picked is the fair one?

Source: Project Euler

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(In reply to Bayes by Charlie)

You should check this dissertation site now. I will post a solution there. It will be great.

Posted by James on 2020-04-04 09:33:26

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