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Three prisoners are informed by their jailer that one of them has been chosen at random to be executed and the other two are to be freed. Prisoner A asks the jailer to tell him privately which of his fellow prisoners will be set free, claiming that there would be no harm in divulging this information because he already knows that at least one of the two will go free. The jailer refuses to answer the question, pointing out that if A knew which of his fellow prisoners were to be set free, then his own probability of being executed would rise from 1 3 to 1 2 because he would then be one of two prisoners. What do you think of the jailer鈥檚 reasoning?

Short Answer

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From the probability, observe that the Jailor is wrong. Disclosing the information will not change the probability that A will be prosecuted.

Step by step solution

01

Given information

From the question, we observe that three prisoners are informed by their jailer that one of them has been chosen at random to be executed and the other two are to be freed.

We have to find the jailor's reasoning.

02

Explanation

Let's consider A,Band Care the three events.

The probability of each prisoners will be die is equal and they are given below:

P(A)=13

P(B)=13

P(C)=13

If Ais to die he could be told either B is to be forced or Cis to be forced, each with a probability of 12.

03

Applying Conditional Probability

Consider Dremains the event that represents the jailor told Bto be freed.

That is, the conditional probability of jailor told Bto be freed given Adies is as follows.

P(D|Adies)=12

If Bis to die, Awould not be told Bis to be freed.

Therefore, the conditional probability of jailor told Bto be freed given Bdies as follows.

P(D|Bdies)=0

If Cis to be die, Awould must be told Bis to be freed. Therefore, the conditional probability of jailor told Btold to be freed given Cdies as follows:

P(D|Cdies)=1

04

Using Bayes Theorem

By using Bayes theorem, to calculate the probability of prisoner Adies given that jailor told prisoner Bto be freed.

P(AdiesD)=P(Adies)P(DAdies)P(Adies)P(DAdies)+P(Bdies)P(DBdies)+P(Cdies)P(DCdies)

=13121312+013+113

=1616+0+13

Simplify,

=1612

=26

Therefore,

=13

05

Final Answer 

From the probability, we observe that the Jailor is wrong.

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