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If $X, Y$ and $Z$ are three exhaustive and mutually exclusive events related with any experiment and the $P\left(X \right)=0.5P\left(Y \right)$ and $P\left(Z \right)$  = $0.3P\left(Y \right)$. Then $P\left(Y \right)$ = ___________ .

  1. $0.54$
  2. $0.66$
  3. $0.33$
  4. $0.44$
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in the official answer key: the answer is 0.44 pls check

this question was in Nielit 2017 scientist assistant paper  the link of this paper is below:

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0.5555 is answer

But we can go with 0.54
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Mutually exclusive events are those which are disjoint ….means A intersention B = 0 .

exhaustive events are those which cover the whole sample space ..like if there are 4 event A,B,C,D then P(A) + P(B)+ P(C)+ P(D) = 1 .

Mutually exculsive and exhaustive means that the events are disjoint i.e they donot overlap and the probablity of all those event is equal to 1 .
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We know ,

If the events are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive , then :

P(X U Y U Z)  =  P(X) + P(Y) + P(Z) = 1

                 ==>  0.5 P(Y) + P(Y) + 0.3 P(Y)  =  1

                 ==>  1.8 P(Y)  =  1

                 ==>  P(Y)        =  1 / 1.8  =  0.54

Hence A) should be the correct option. 

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in the official answer key: the answer is 0.44 pls check

this question was in Nielit 2017 scientist assistant paper  the link of this paper is below:

http://beta.nielit.gov.in/sites/default/files/PDF/STA17122017.pdf

official answer key

http://apply-delhi.nielit.gov.in/PDF/NIC/AnswerKeys/Ans_key_Scientific-Technical-Asst-A_SET-A.pdf
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If X,Y and Z are three exhaustive and mutually exclusive events, so the  total probability is
$P(X)+P(Y)+P(Z)=1  --\rightarrow(1)eq$
Given data is $P(X)=0.5P(Y)$ and $P(Z)=0.3P(Y)$
Substitute the values in the above equation (1)
$0.5P(Y)+P(Y)+0.3P(Y) =1$
$1.8P(Y)=1$
$P(Y)=1/1.8=0.5555$
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