bac-s-maths 2014 Q1A

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A student must go to his school each morning by 8:00 a.m. He takes the bicycle 7 days out of 10 and the bus the rest of the time. On days when he takes the bicycle, he arrives on time in $99.4\%$ of cases and when he takes the bus, he arrives late in $5\%$ of cases. A date is chosen at random during the school period and we denote by $V$ the event ``The student goes to school by bicycle'', $B$ the event ``the student goes to school by bus'' and $R$ the event ``The student arrives late at school''.
  1. Translate the situation using a probability tree.
  2. Determine the probability of the event $V \cap R$.
  3. Prove that the probability of the event $R$ is 0.0192
  4. On a given day, the student arrived late at school. What is the probability that he went there by bus?
A student must go to his school each morning by 8:00 a.m. He takes the bicycle 7 days out of 10 and the bus the rest of the time. On days when he takes the bicycle, he arrives on time in $99.4\%$ of cases and when he takes the bus, he arrives late in $5\%$ of cases. A date is chosen at random during the school period and we denote by $V$ the event ``The student goes to school by bicycle'', $B$ the event ``the student goes to school by bus'' and $R$ the event ``The student arrives late at school''.

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Translate the situation using a probability tree.
  \item Determine the probability of the event $V \cap R$.
  \item Prove that the probability of the event $R$ is 0.0192
  \item On a given day, the student arrived late at school. What is the probability that he went there by bus?
\end{enumerate}