An insurance company insured 2000 scooter drivers, 4000 car drivers and 6000 truck drivers. The probability of accidents are 0.01, 0.03 and 0.15, respectively, One of the insured persons meets with an accident. What is the probability that he is a scooter driver?
There are 2000 scooter drivers, 4000 car drivers and 6000 truck drivers.
Total number of drivers =2000+4000+6000=12000
Let E1 the event that insured person is a scooter driver, E2 the event that insured person is a car driver and E3 the event that insured person is a truck driver.
Then, E1,E2,E3 are mutually exclusive and exhaustive events. Moreover,
PE1=Number of scooter driversTotal number of drivers=200012000=16
PE2=Number of car driversTotal number of drivers=400012000=13
and PE1=Number of truck driversTotal number of drivers=600012000=12
Let E: the events that insured person meets with an accident,
P(EE1) = P (scooter driver met with an accident)=0.001=1100
P(EE2) = P (car driver met with an accident)=0.03=3100
P(EE3) = P (scooter driver met with an accident)=0.15=15100
The probability that the driver is a scooter driver, given he met with an accident, is given by P(EE1).
By using Baye's theorem, we obtain
P(E1E)=P(EE1)P(E1)P(EE1)P(E1)+P(EE2)P(E2)+P(EE3)P(E3)
=16×110016×13×13×3100+12×15100=1616+1+152=11+6+45=152