ABC Company purchases electronic chips from three individual suppliers. Hall Ele

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ABC Company purchases electronic chips from three individual suppliers. Hall Electronics, Schuler Sales and Crawford Components. The probability ABC Company will use Hall electronics is 30%. uses Schuler Sales is 20%, and Crawford Components is 50%. While all three suppliers arc very reliable, the probability Hall Electronics products defective chips is 3%, the probability Schuler Sales and Crawford components produce defective chips is 5% and 4% respectively. ABC Company purchases electronic chips. What is the probability the electronic chips arc defective?

Explanation / Answer

Let Bi denote an electronic chip comes from supplier i(i = 1 for Hall, 2 for Schuler and 3 for crawford).

P(B1) = 0.3, P(B2) = 0.2, P(B3) = 0.5

Let D denote the event that an electronic chip is defective.
P(D|B1) = 0.03, P(D|B2) = 0.05, P(D|B3) = 0.04

P(D) = P(B1)*P(D|B1) + P(B2)*P(D|B2) + P(B3)P(D|B3) = 0.3*0.03 + 0.2*0.05 + 0.5*0.04 = 0.039

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