Chapter 5: Q 3.1. (page 321)
Construct a tree diagram to represent this situation.
Short Answer
The tree diagram is:
Chapter 5: Q 3.1. (page 321)
Construct a tree diagram to represent this situation.
The tree diagram is:
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(a) What’s your estimate for the probability of heads? Why?
(b) Explain how you could get an even better estimate.
Simulation blunders Explain what’s wrong with each of the following simulation designs.
(a) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about of U.S. adults were obese in . To simulate choosing adults at random and seeing how many are obese, we could use two digits. Let to represent obese and to represents not obese. Move across a row in Table D, two digits at a time, until you find 8 distinct numbers (no repeats). Record the number of obese people selected.
(b) Assume that the probability of a newborn being a boy is . To simulate choosing a random sample of babies who were born at a local hospital today and observing their gender, use one digit. Use ran dint (0,9) on your calculator to determine how many babies in the sample are male.
Sampling senators Refer to Exercise 50.
(a) Construct a Venn diagram that models the chance process using events R: is a Republican, and F: is female.
(b) Find Interpret this value in context.
(c) Find Interpret this value in context.
If I toss a fair coin five times and the outcomes are , then the probability that tails appears on the next toss is (a) 0.5. (b) less than (c) greater than (d) (e) Exercises to refer to the following setting. A basketball player makes of her shots from the field during the season.
Fill ’er up Refer to Exercise 83. Given that the customer paid with a credit card, find the probability that she bought premium gas.
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