291.Four-Sided or Six-Sided
★★★conditional probabilityJane Street
A fair four-sided die (faces 1-4) and a fair six-sided die (faces 1-6) sit on a table. One is chosen at random and rolled, showing a 2. What is the probability that it was the four-sided die?
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Both dice could have produced a 2, but not equally easily.
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