Consider a company that assembles computers. The probability of a faulty…

GATE · 2010 · CS · Computer Science & ITTPSC Computer/IT Posts · 2025 · Senior Informatics Officer · Section D

Consider a company that assembles computers. The probability of a faulty assembly of any computer is pp. The company therefore subjects each computer to a testing process. This testing process gives the correct result for any computer with a probability of qq. What is the probability of a computer being declared faulty?

  1. A.

    pq+(1−p)(1−q)pq + (1 - p) (1 - q)

  2. B.

    (1−q)p(1 - q) p

  3. C.

    (1−p)q (1 - p) q

  4. D.

    pqpq

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