Three students , , and are given a problem to solve. Consider the following events:: At least one of , , and can solve the problem,: can solve the problem, given that neither nor can solve the problem,: can solve the problem and cannot solve the problem,: can solve the problem.For any event , let denote the probability of . If
and where and are coprime positive integers, find the value of .\
[THOUGHT] Let be the event that student can solve the problem.
Given:
- . Let . Then .
- .
- .
Now , , and form a partition of the sample space, so
Thus
so
Hence , and .
[/THOUGHT] [PYTHON] from fractions import Fraction t = Fraction(1,1) - Fraction(1,10) - Fraction(1,12) P_none = t/2 P_A = Fraction(1,1) - P_none p, q = P_A.numerator, P_A.denominator print("t =", t) print("P_none =", P_none) print("P(A) =", P_A, "p,q=", p,q) print("p^2+q^2 =", pp + qq) [/PYTHON]
[THOUGHT] From the computed , we have , , so .