probability of being crazy from jersy question

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In a country, there are 2 states, Jersy and New Castle. 70% of the population are from Jersy, and 30% are from New Castle. Out of the Jersy population, 6% are crazy, and out of New Castle, 3% are crazy. if someone is crazy, what is the probability that he is from Jersy?

So I just said that $P(Jersy|Crazy)= \frac{P(Jersy\cap Crazy}{P(Crazy)}=\frac{0.7*0.06}{0.7*0.06+0.3*0.03} = 0.8235$

Is that correct?

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Yes, that is correct.

I would go into more detail than what you have shown, in order to be clear about how you performed the computation.

Let $J$ be the event that a randomly selected person is from Jersy and $N$ be the complementary event that a randomly selected person is from New Castle. Let $C$ be the event that a randomly selected person is crazy.

Then we are asked to determine $$\Pr[J \mid C] = \frac{\Pr[C \mid J]\Pr[J]}{\Pr[C]}.$$ This is Bayes' rule. Then the law of total probability gives for the denominator $$\Pr[C] = \Pr[C \mid J]\Pr[J] + \Pr[C \mid N]\Pr[N].$$ This is exactly what you have computed, with the following probabilities $$\Pr[J] = 0.7, \\ \Pr[C \mid J] = 0.06, \\ \Pr[N] = 1 - \Pr[J] = 0.3, \\ \Pr[C \mid N] = 0.03.$$