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Often it is taken that a truthful person commands, more respect in the society. A man is known to speak the truth 4 out of 5 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a six. Find the probability that it is actually a six.

Do you also agree that the value of truthfulness leads to more respect in society?

Let E1 and E2 be the event that 6 appears and 6 doesn’t appear on throwing the die and E be the required event.


By Baye’s theorem, we know that,



Yes, I agree on the fact that truthfulness leads to more respect in society.


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