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?

Question

Philoid · Accepted Answer

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.