SOLUTION: You ask a neighbor to water a sickly plant while you are on vacation. Without water the plant will die with probability 0.8. With water it will die with probability 0.4. You are 82

Question 533239: You ask a neighbor to water a sickly plant while you are on vacation. Without water the plant will die with probability 0.8. With water it will die with probability 0.4. You are 82 % certain the neighbor will remember to water the plant.
You come back from the vacation and the plant is dead. What is the probability that the plant died because neighbor forgot to water it?
Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Not much. The plant was already sickly.
Real life solution: Now that it is dead you can save the water for better uses. Thank the neighbor and go buy a new plant for yourself and the neighbor. Next time take the plant with you or stay home and take care of it.

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