(a) What is the probability of gettin g heads on only one of your flips?
# 3 ) Lan e et al ,pg 21 8 # 9 .
A jar contains 10 blue marble s, 5 red mar ble s, 4 gree n marbl e s, and 1
yellow marbl e. Two marble s are chos e n (witho u t replace m e n t ).
(a) What is the probability that one will be gree n and the other red?
(b) What is the probability that one will be blue and the other yellow?
# 4 ) Lan e et al ,pg 22 2 # 2 7 .
A refriger at or contains 6 apple s, 5 orang e s, 10 bananas , 3 pears, 7 peach e s ,
11, plu m s, and 2 man g o s .
a. Imagin e you stick your hand in this refrigera tor and pull out a piece of
fruit at rando m . What is the probability that you will pull out a pear?
b. Imagin e now that you put your hand in the refrigerat or and pull out a
piece of fruit. You decide you do not want to eat that fruit so you put
it back into the refrigerat or and pull out anoth e r piece of fruit. What
is the probability that the first piece of fruit you pull out is a banana
and the secon d piece you pull out is an apple?
c. What is the probability that you stick your hand in the refrigera t or
one tim e and pull out a man go or an orang e?
c. Let B be the event that the sum of the two rolls is at most seve n. Find P(B).
e. Are A and B mut u ally exclusiv e even t s? Explain your ans w e r in one to
thre e com ple t e sent e n c e s , includin g nu m e r ical justification.
At a college, 72% of cours e s have final exa m s and 46% of cours e s requir e
resear c h papers. Sup po s e that 32% of cours e s have a resear c h paper and a
final exa m. Let F be the eve nt that a cours e has a final exa m . Let R be the
even t that a cours e requir e s a researc h paper.
a. Find the probability that a cours e has a final exa m or a resear c h project.
b. Find the probability that a cours e has NEIT H E R of thes e two
requir e m e n t s .
Tabl e 1.2 1 identifies a group of childre n by one of four hair colors, and by
type of hair.
Wavy 20 15 3 43
Straig h t 80 15 12
Totals 20 215
b. What is the probability that a rando m l y select e d child will have wavy
hair?
c. What is the probability that a rando m l y select e d child will have either
brow n or blond hair?
d. What is the probability that a rando m l y select e d child will have wavy
brow n hair?
e. What is the probability that a rando m l y select e d child will have red hair,
given that he or she has straigh t hair?
f. If B is the even t of a child having brow n hair, find the probability of the
com pl e m e n t of B.
a. What is the averag e class size assu m i n g each class is filled to capacity ?
b. Spac e is available for 980 stud e n t s . Sup p o s e that each class is filled to
capacity and select a statistic s stud e n t at rando m . Let the rando m variable
X equal the size of the stud e n ts class. Define the PDF for X.
f. Find the probability that more than two students will attend.