After years of observations you have found out that if it rains on a given day, there is a 60% chance that it will rain on the next day too. If it is not raining, the chance of rain on the next day in only 25%. The weather forecast for Friday predicts the chance of rain is 75%. What is the probability that *at least one day* of the weekend will have *no rain*? ---------------------------------------------------------------- A = Friday B = Saturday C = Sunday # rain on Friday P(A) = 0.75 # no rain on Friday P(A') = 1 - P(A) = 0.25 P(B|A) = 0.60 # rain on Saturday given the event of rain on Friday P(B|A') = 0.25 # rain on Saturday given the event of no rain on Friday P(C|B) = 0.60 # rain on Sunday given the event of rain on Saturday P(C|B') = 0.25 # rain on Sunday given the event of no rain on Saturday P(B) = P(B|A) P(A) + P(B|A') P(A') = 0.60 * 0.75 + 0.25 * 0.25 = 0.5125 P(B') = 1 - P(B) = 0.4875 P(C) = P(C|B) P(B) + P(C|B') P(B') = 0.60 * 0.5125 + 0.25 * 0.4875 = 0.429375 P(C') = 1 - P(C) = 0.570625 ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Bayes' theorem P(C|B) P(B) P(B|C) = ------------- P(C) 0.60 * 0.5125 164 P(B|C) = --------------- = ----- 0.429375 229 164 123 277 1 - P(B and C) = 1 - P(B|C) P(C) = 1 - 0.429375 ----- = 1 - ----- = ----- 229 400 400