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1. In an insurance company, each policy has a paper record and an
electric record. For those policies having incorrect paper record,
60% also having incorrect electric record; For those policies having
incorrect electric record, 75% also having incorrect paper record. 3%
of all policies have both incorrect paper and incorrect electric
records. If we randomly pick out one policy, what's the probability
that the one having both correct paper and correct electric records?
Please explain steps..
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12 Sep 2003, 05:22
I will try a shorter and simpler route:
Let a = incorrect Paper records
b = incorrect Electronic recods
c = Total policies.
Now from problem statement => 0.6a = 0.75b (they are same i.e. the ones having both incorrect paper and electric records)
Also, 0.03c = 0.6a = 0.75b --------- eq 1. (all give same data but in a different way)
Therefore, probability for selecting a policy with both correct electric and paper record = (c - b - a)/c
= 0.91 (substituting a,b from above equation -1 )
am i riht praet. I must say its a very tricky problem.
-Vicks
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14 Sep 2003, 06:23
praetorian123 wrote:
In an insurance company, each policy has a paper record and an electric record. For those policies having incorrect paper record, 60% also have incorrect electric record; For those policies having incorrect electric record, 75% also having incorrect paper record. 3% of all policies have both incorrect paper and incorrect electric records. If we randomly pick out one policy, what's the probability that the one having both correct paper and correct electric records?
Please explain steps..
ok..heres the answer
we use one of the most important probability concepts
P( correct paper and correct electric) = 1- P ( incorrect paper and incorrect electric)
Let T be total policies
Let x be total incorrect paper policies
Let y be total incorrect electric policies
It follows from the problem statement that
0.03T is the number of both incorrect electric and paper policies
0.6x is the number of both incorrect electric and paper ..
0.75y is the number of both incorrect electric and paper...
So now that all are the same, we have
0.03 T = 0.6 x = 0.75 y
x = 0.03 T/0.6 = 5% * T
y= 0.03 T/0.75 = 4 % * T
Vicky , x + y double counts the "BOTH" incorrect part.
So total incorrect paper OR total incorrect electric = x +y - both incorrect
5% T + 4% T - 3% T = 6%
Required Prob = 1 - 0.06 = 0.94
Answer 0.94
Thanks
Praetorian
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