Chapter 4: Q.4.9 (page 163)
Repeat Example when the balls are selected with replacement.
Chapter 4: Q.4.9 (page 163)
Repeat Example when the balls are selected with replacement.
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Remark: On each bet, she will either winwith probabilityor losewith probability.
Letbe the winnings of a gambler. Let and suppose that
Compute the conditional probability that the gambler wins given that he wins a positive amount.
In some military courts, judges are appointed. However, both the prosecution and the defense attorneys are entitled to a peremptory challenge of any judge, in which case that judge is removed from the case and is not replaced. A defendant is declared guilty if the majority of judges cast votes of guilty, and he or she is declared innocent otherwise. Suppose that when the defendant is, in fact, guilty, each judge will (independently) vote guilty with probability .whereas when the defendant is, in fact, innocent, this probability drops to .
(a) What is the probability that a guilty defendant is declared guilty when there are (i) , (ii) , and (iii) judges?
(b) Repeat part (a) for an innocent defendant.
(c) If the prosecuting attorney does not exercise the right to a peremptory challenge of a judge, and if the defense is limited to at most two such challenges, how many challenges should the defense attorney make if he or she is percent certain that the client is guilty?
If the distribution function of is given by
calculate the probability mass function of .
Suppose in Problem 4.72 that the two teams are evenly matched and each has probability 1 2 of winning each game. Find the expected number of games played.
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