{"id":121767,"date":"2022-05-18T17:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=121767"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T05:20:09","slug":"fig-1-an-insurance-company-believes-that-people-can-be-divided-into-two-classes-those-who-are-accident-prone-and-those-who-are-not-the-companys-statistics-show-that-an-accident-prone-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/fig-1-an-insurance-company-believes-that-people-can-be-divided-into-two-classes-those-who-are-accident-prone-and-those-who-are-not-the-companys-statistics-show-that-an-accident-prone-person","title":{"rendered":"Fig 1 An insurance company believes that people can be divided into two classes: those who are accident prone and those who are not. The company\u2019s statistics show that an accident-prone person will have an accident at sometime within a fixed one-year period with probability 0.6, whereas this probability is 0.2 for a person who is not accident prone. The company knows that 20 percent of the population is accident prone. Based on the given information, answer the followin questions. (i)what is the probability that a new policyholder will have an accident within a year of purchasing a policy? (ii) Suppose that a new policyholder has an accident within a year of purchasing a policy. What is the probability that he or she is accident prone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-121718 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/28-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/28-3.png 284w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/28-3-150x109.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Fig 1<br \/>\nAn insurance company believes that people can be divided into two classes: those who are accident prone and those who are not. The company\u2019s statistics show that an accident-prone person will have an accident at sometime within a fixed one-year period with probability 0.6, whereas this probability is 0.2 for a person who is not accident prone. The company knows that 20 percent of the population is accident prone. Based on the given information, answer the followin questions.<br \/>\n(i)what is the probability that a new policyholder will have an accident within a year of purchasing a policy?<br \/>\n(ii) Suppose that a new policyholder has an accident within a year of purchasing a policy. What is the probability that he or she is accident prone?<\/h2>\n<h3>Answer.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-121719 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/29-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/29-5.png 511w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/29-5-150x61.png 150w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/29-5-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fig 1 An insurance company believes that people can be divided into two classes: those who are accident prone and those who are not. The company\u2019s statistics show that an accident-prone person will have an accident at sometime within a fixed one-year period with probability 0.6, whereas this probability is 0.2 for a person who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":121721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121768,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121767\/revisions\/121768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}