Oscar has lost his dog in either forest A (with a priori probability 0.4) or in forest B (with a priori probability 0.6).
If the dog is alive and not found by the $N^{th}$ day of the search, it will die that evening with probability $N/(N + 2)$.
If the dog is in A (either dead or alive) and Oscar spends a day searching for it in A, the conditional probability that he will find the dog that day is 0.25. Similarly, if the dog is in B and Oscar spends a day looking for it there, he will find the dog that day with probability 0.15.
The dog cannot go from one forest to the other. Oscar can search only in the daytime, and he can travel from one forest to the other only at night.
Let $A$ be the event that the dog was lost in forest A and $A^c$ be the event that
the dog was lost in forest B.
Let $D_n$ be the event that the dog dies on the $n^{th}$ day.
Let $F_n$
be the event that the dog is found on the $n^{th}$ day.
Let $S_n$ be the event that Oscar searches
forest A on $n^{th}$ day and $S_n^c$
be the event that he searches forest B on day $n$.
Given that Oscar looked in A on the first day but didn’t find his dog, what is the probability that the dog is in A?
I found an answer: $Pr(A|S_1,F_1^c)=\frac{Pr(A)Pr(F_1^c|A,S_1)}{Pr(A)Pr(F_1^c|A,S_1)+Pr(A^c)Pr(F_1^c|A^c,S_1)} = \frac{0.3}{0.3+0.6}$
They indicate $Pr(F_1^c|A^c,S_1) = 1$
Consider the tree (I'm not able to upload images, yet):
| |-0.25-F
|-0.4-A |
| |-0.75-F^c
|
| |-0.15-F
|-0.6-A^c|
| |-0.85-F^c
$Pr(A)Pr(F_1^c|A,S_1) = 0.4*0.75 = 0.3$
why is it not the case that:
$Pr(A^c)Pr(F_1^c|A^c,S_1) = 0.6*0.85 = .51$