bac-s-maths 2025 Q1
Total Probability via Tree Diagram (Two-Stage Partition)
An American team mapped food allergies in children in the United States for the first time in 2020. It is known that in 2020, $17\%$ of the population of the United States lives in rural areas and $83\%$ in urban areas. Among children in the United States living in rural areas, $6.2\%$ are affected by food allergies. Also, $9\%$ of children in the United States are affected by food allergies.
For any event $E$, we denote $P(E)$ its probability and $\bar{E}$ its complementary event. Unless otherwise stated, probabilities will be given in exact form.
A child is randomly selected from the population of the United States and we denote:
- R The event: ``the child interviewed lives in a rural area'';
- A The event: ``the child interviewed is affected by food allergies''.
Part A - Translate this situation using a probability tree. This tree may be completed later.
- a. Calculate the probability that the child interviewed lives in a rural area and is affected by food allergies. b. Deduce the probability that the child interviewed lives in an urban area and is affected by food allergies. c. The child interviewed lives in an urban area. What is the probability that he/she is affected by food allergies? Round the result to $10^{-4}$.
Part BA study is conducted by randomly interviewing 100 children in the United States. We assume that this choice amounts to successive independent draws with replacement. We denote $X$ the random variable giving the number of children affected by food allergies in the sample considered.
- Justify that the random variable $X$ follows a binomial distribution and specify its parameters.
- What is the probability that at least 10 children among the 100 interviewed are affected by food allergies? Round the result to $10^{-4}$.
Part CWe are interested in a sample of 20 children affected by food allergies chosen at random. The age of onset of the first allergic symptoms of these 20 children is modeled by the random variables $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_{20}$. We assume that these random variables are independent and follow the same distribution with expectation 4 and variance 2.25. We consider the random variable: $$M_{20} = \frac{A_1 + A_2 + \ldots + A_{20}}{20}.$$
- What does the random variable $M_{20}$ represent in the context of the exercise?
- Determine the expectation and variance of $M_{20}$.
- Justify, using the concentration inequality, that $$P\left(2 < M_{20} < 6\right) > 0.97.$$ Interpret this result in the context of the exercise.