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2. You and your friend are presented with 7 boxes.3 of the boxes contain delicious
chocolates while the other 4 are filed with deadly mushrooms (disguised as delicious
chocolates). Both of you will need to select a box and eat what is inside, but you need to
decide which of you will go first.
()_ Inorder to increase your chance of eating delicious chocolates, should you choose first
or second? Answer this by defining your notation and using conditional probabilities (not
by using tree diagrams) with results from the module.
Gi Ifyou choose first. what is the probability that you eat delicious chocolates, given that
your friend also does? Use similar techniques to part ().
How would your answer to (i) change if there were three of you: yourself and two
friends? Answer this without doing any mathematics or algebra, perhaps by referring to
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