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Three companies C1, C2, C3 produce car tyres. A car manufacturing company buys 40% of its requirement from C1, 35% from C2 and 25% from C3. The company knows that 2% of the tyres supplied by C1, 3% by C2 and 4% by C3 are defective. If a tyre chosen at random from the consignment received is found defective then the probability that it was supplied by C2 is

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Bayes' theorem problems typically involve finding a "reverse" conditional probability. The structure is always: identify the initial probabilities (priors), the conditional probabilities (likelihoods), calculate the total probability of the event, and then apply the theorem.
Updated On: Mar 30, 2026
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The Correct Option is A

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