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A consulting firm submitted a bid for a large research project. The firm's management initially felt they had a 50-50 chance of getting the project. However, the agency to which the bid was submitted subsequently requested additional information on the bid. Past experience indicates that for 75% of the successful bids and 40% of the unsuccessful bids the agency requested additional information.
a.What is the prior
b.What is the conditional probability of a request for additional information given that the bid will ultimately be successful?
c.Compute the posterior probability that the bid will be successful given a request for additional information.
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