Suppose there are two full bowls of cookies. Bowl #1 has 10 chocolate chip and 20 oatmeal, while bowl #2 has 20 chocolate chip cookies and 10 oatmeal cookies. Our friend Bob picks a bowl at random, and then picks a cookie at random. We may assume there is no reason to believe Bob treats one bowl differently from another, likewise for the cookies. The cookie turns out to be an oatmeal cookie. How probable is it that Bob picked it out of Bowl #2?

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  1. Suppose there are two full bowls of cookies. Bowl #1 has 10 chocolate chip and 20 oatmeal, while bowl #2 has 20 chocolate chip cookies and 10 oatmeal cookies. Our friend Bob picks a bowl at random, and then picks a cookie at random. We may assume there is no reason to believe Bob treats one bowl differently from another, likewise for the cookies. The cookie turns out to be an oatmeal cookie. How probable is it that Bob picked it out of Bowl #2? 

 

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