Question

An item is manufactured by three machines A, B and C. Out of the total number of items manufactured during a specified period, 50% are manufactured on A, 30% on B and 20% on C. 2% of the items produced on A and 2% of items produced on B are defective and 3% of these produced on C are defective. All the items are stored at one godown. One item is drawn at random and is found to be defective. What is the probability that was manufactured on machine A ?

Answer 1

Let $E_1$=Event that item is manufactured on A,

$E_2$ = Event that an item is manufactured on B.

$E_3$ = Event that an item is manufactured on C.

Let E be the event that an item is defective.

$\therefore P\left(E_1\right)=\frac{50}{100}=\frac{1}{2},P\left(E_2\right)=\frac{30}{100}=\frac{3}{10}andP\left(E_3\right)=\frac{20}{100}=\frac{1}{5}$

$P\left(\frac{E}{E_1}\right)=\frac{2}{100}=\frac{1}{50},P\left(\frac{E}{E_2}\right)=\frac{2}{100}=\frac{1}{50}and\left(\frac{E}{E_3}\right)=\frac{3}{100}$
$\therefore P\left(\frac{E_1}{E}\right)=\frac{P\left(E_1\right).P\left(\frac{E}{E_1}\right)}{P\left(E_1\right).P\left(\frac{E}{E_1}\right)+P\left(E_2\right).P\left(\frac{E}{E_2}\right)+P\left(E_3\right).P\left(\frac{E}{E_3}\right)}$
$=\frac{\frac{1}{2}.\frac{1}{50}}{\frac{1}{2}.\frac{1}{50}+\frac{3}{10}.\frac{1}{50}+\frac{1}{5}.\frac{3}{100}}$
$=\frac{\frac{1}{100}}{\frac{1}{100}+\frac{3}{100}+\frac{3}{100}}=\frac{\frac{1}{100}}{\frac{5+3+3}{500}}=\frac{5}{11}$