Chapter 5: Q. 33 (page 326)

Grandkids Mr. Starnes and his wife have $6$ grandchildren: Connor, Declan, Lucas, Piper, Sedona, and Zayne. They have $2$ extra tickets to a holiday show, and will randomly select which $2$ grandkids get to see the show with them.
a. Give a probability model for this chance process.
b. Find the probability that at least one of the two girls (Piper and Sedona) get to go to the show.

Short Answer

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Part(a) The probability model is $X ~ Bin (6, \frac{1}{6}) P (X = 2) = {}^{6}C_{2} \times {(\frac{1}{6})}^{2} \times {(1 - \frac{1}{6})}^{6 - 2}$

Part(b) The probability that at least one of the two girls (Piper and Sedona) get to go to the show is $0.6$

Step by step solution

Part(a) Step 1 : Given information

We need to give probability model for this chance process.

Part(a) Step 2 : Simplify

We are given that there are $6$ grandchildrens and $2$ of them are needed to picked.

Let number of grandchildren to be choose is X.

Every children has equal chance to get selected, therefore Probability for everyone is $\frac{1}{6}$

Therefore, the probability model is :

$X ~ Bin (6, \frac{1}{6}) P (X) = {}^{6}C_{x} \times {(\frac{1}{6})}^{x} \times {(1 - \frac{1}{6})}^{6 - x} P (X = 2) = {}^{6}C_{2} \times {(\frac{1}{6})}^{2} \times {(1 - \frac{1}{6})}^{6 - 2}$

Part(b) Step 1 : Given information

We need to find probability for at least one of two girls get to go to the show.

Part(b) Step 2 : Simplify

As every children has equal chance to be selected , therefore

$P (at least one of the two girls) = P (one of girls) + P (both girls) P (one of girls) = \frac{{}^{2}C_{1} \times {}^{4}C_{1}}{{}^{6}C_{2}} = 0.5333 P (both girls) = \frac{{}^{2}C_{2} \times {}^{4}C_{0}}{{}^{6}C_{2}} = 0.0667 P (at least one of the two girls) = 0.5333 + 0.0667 = 0.6$