Chapter 15: Q3P (page 749)
A coin is tossed repeatedly; x = number of the toss at which a head first appears.
Short Answer
The required values are mentioned below.
Chapter 15: Q3P (page 749)
A coin is tossed repeatedly; x = number of the toss at which a head first appears.
The required values are mentioned below.
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Get started for freeTwo dice are thrown. Use the sample space (2.4) to answer the following questions.
(a) What is the probability of being able to form a two-digit number greater than
33 with the two numbers on the dice? (Note that the sample point 1, 4 yields
the two-digit number 41 which is greater than 33, etc.)
(b) Repeat part (a) for the probability of being able to form a two-digit number
greater than or equal to 42.
(c) Can you find a two-digit number (or numbers) such that the probability of
being able to form a larger number is the same as the probability of being able
to form a smaller number? [See note part (a)]
A thick coin has probability of falling heads, of falling tails, and of standing one edge. Show that if it is tossed repeatedly it has probability 1 of
Eventually standing on edge.
(a) A weighted coin hasprobability ofcoming up heads and probabilityof coming up tails. The coin is tossed twice. Let x = number of heads. Set up the sample space for x and the associated probabilities.
(b) Find x and σ.
(c)If in (a) you know that there was at least one tail, what is the probability that both were tails?
The following problem arises in quantum mechanics (see Chapter , Problem). Find the number of ordered triples of nonnegative integers a, b, c whose sum is a given positive integer n. (For example, if, we could haveoror or or or or .) Hint: Show that this is the same as the number of distinguishable distributions of n identical balls inboxes, and follow the method of the diagram in Example .
A letter is selected at random from the alphabet. What is the probability that it is one of the letters in the word “probability?” What is the probability that it occurs in the first half of the alphabet? What is the probability that it is a letter after x?
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