Chapter 5: Q. 92. (page 346)
On a roll Suppose that you roll a fair, six-sided die 10 times. What’s the probability that you get at least one 6?
Short Answer
The probability of getting at least one is
Chapter 5: Q. 92. (page 346)
On a roll Suppose that you roll a fair, six-sided die 10 times. What’s the probability that you get at least one 6?
The probability of getting at least one is
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Suppose we select a student from the school at random. Define event as getting a female student and event as getting a student who eats breakfast regularly.
a. Find
b. Find . Interpret this value in context.
c. Find .
Rock smashes scissors Almost everyone has played the game rock-paper-scissors at some point. Two players face each other and, at the count of , make a fist (rock), an extended hand, palm side down (paper), or a “V” with the index and middle fingers (scissors). The winner is determined by these rules: rock smashes scissors; paper covers rock; and scissors cut paper. If both players choose the same object, then the game is a tie. Suppose that Player and Player are both equally likely to choose rock, paper, or scissors. a. Give a probability model for this chance process. b. Find the probability that Player wins the game on the first throw .
Butter side down Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University in England
determined that if a piece of toast is dropped from a-foot-high table, the probability
that it lands butter side down is .
a. Explain what this probability means.
b. Suppose that the researchers dropped pieces of toast, and all of them landed butter
side down. Does that make it more likely that the next piece of toast will land with the
butter side up? Explain your answer.
Due to a hit A very good professional baseball player gets a hit about of the time
over an entire season. After the player failed to hit safely in six straight at-bats, a TV
As one commentator said, “He is due for a hit.” Explain why the commentator is wrong.
The two-way table summarizes data on whether students at a certain high school eat
regularly in the school cafeteria by grade level.
a. If you choose a student at random, what is the probability that the student eats
regularly in the cafeteria and is not a grader?
b. If you choose a student at random who eats regularly in the cafeteria, what is the probability that the student is a grader?
c. Are the events “grader” and “eats regularly in the cafeteria” independent?
Justify your answer.
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