Question: Two teaching methods, A and B , are implemented for learning Spanish. There is a 70% chance of successfully learning Spanish if method A is

Two teaching methods, A and B, are implemented for learning Spanish. There is a 70% chance of successfully learning Spanish if method A is used, and a 85% chance of success if method Bis used. However, method B is substantially more time consuming and is therefore used only 15% of the time (method A is used the other 85% of the time). The following notations are suggested:

  • AMethod A is used.
  • BMethod B is used.
  • LSpanish was learned successfully.

A person learned Spanish successfully. What is the probability that he was taught by method A?

  1. 0.85 * 0.70 = 0.5950
  2. 0.70
  3. (0.15 * 0.85)/(0.85 * 0.70 + 0.15 * 0.85) = 0.1765
  4. (0.85 * 0.70)/(0.85 * 0.70 + 0.15 * 0.85) = 0.8235
  5. (0.85 * 0.70)/(0.70 + 0.85) = 0.3839

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