A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a six. Find the probability that it is actually a six.

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The Bayes' theorem describes the probability of an event based on prior knowledge of the conditions that might be relevant to the event. The theorem is named after English statistician, Thomas Bayes, who discovered the formula in 1763.


A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a six. Find the probability that it is actually a six.