Sparking widgets

https://arbital.com/p/sparking_widgets

by Nate Soares Jul 6 2016


10% of widgets are bad and 90% are good. 4% of good widgets emit sparks, and 12% of bad widgets emit sparks. If a widget is sparking, find an easy way to calculate the chance that it's a bad widget, keeping the operations as simple as possible so that it's easy to do the calculation entirely in your head.

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