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Chapter 2: Q. 2.39 (page 51)
There are hotels in a certain town. If people check
into hotels in a day, what is the probability that they each check into a different hotel? What assumptions are you making?
the probability that they each check into a different hotel is0.48.
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If two dice are rolled, what is the probability that the sum of the upturned faces equals Find it for
A, B, and C take turns flipping a coin. The first one to get a head wins. The sample space of this experiment can be defined by
(a) Interpret the sample space.
(b) Define the following events in terms of S:
(i) wins = .
(ii) wins = .
(iii) .
Assume that A flips first, then B, then C, then A, and so on.
Five balls are randomly chosen, without replacement, from an urn that contains red,white, and blue balls. Find the probability that at least one ball of each color is chosen.
A forest containselk, which are captured, tagged, and then released. A certain time later,the elk are captured. What is the probability that these have been tagged? What assumptions are you making?
For any sequence of events define a new sequenceof disjoint events (that is, events such that whenever ) such that for all,
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