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Alice is taking a probability class and at the end of each week
she can be either up-to-date or she may have fallen behind. If she is up-to-date in
a given week, the probability that she will be up-to-date (or behind) in the next
week is 0.8 (or 0.2, respectively). If she is behind in a given week, the probability
that she will be up-to-date (or behind) in the next week is 0.6 (or 0.4, respectively).
Alice is (by default) up-to-date when she starts the class. What is the probability
that she is up-to-date after three weeks?
This is a probability problem from Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis' textbook. The answer given is that
P(U3) = P(U2)*P(U3 |U2) P(B2)*P(U3 |B2) = P(U2) · 0.8 P(B2) · 0.4
However, the answer I'm finding is
P(U3) = P(U2)*P(U3 |U2) P(B2)*P(U3 |B2) = P(U2) · 0.8 P(B2) · 0.6
Am I missing something or did they make a mistake in the textbook?
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