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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2011 Paper 2 17 b Solution by
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The lazy choice weights are and , in ratio three to one. Normalizing gives . Let denote selection of the first question and let . Its conditional expected value, divided by , isso . If the overall lazy fraction is , the law of total probability gives . Bayes' theorem then givesSolving yields . The observed mean is conditioned on the chosen question, so it cannot be equated directly to the unconditional mean over all students.
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