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Problem Set 2: Joint and Conditional Probability

This document contains 10 questions about joint and conditional probability across different scenarios. Question 1 asks how many possible 4-character passwords can be made from letters and numbers, while Question 2 modifies this by disallowing repeated characters. Question 3 asks for the probability of no more than 1 defective part when randomly testing 3 parts. The remaining questions refer to data on customers' book preferences, drink and food ordering at a pub, and device usage on a webpage.

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Problem Set 2: Joint and Conditional Probability

This document contains 10 questions about joint and conditional probability across different scenarios. Question 1 asks how many possible 4-character passwords can be made from letters and numbers, while Question 2 modifies this by disallowing repeated characters. Question 3 asks for the probability of no more than 1 defective part when randomly testing 3 parts. The remaining questions refer to data on customers' book preferences, drink and food ordering at a pub, and device usage on a webpage.

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Problem Set 2: Joint and Conditional Probability pg.

Questions 1 & 2 refer to the following information:

The password for a garage door security system must be four characters long and can consist of any
combination of English letters and numbers, but no special characters.

1) How many different passwords are possible?

2) Now suppose that the same characters may not be reused within each password. How many
different passwords are possible in light of this restriction?

3) In any given production run, a manufacturer produces parts with defects at a rate of one out of every
ten parts produced. If a customer randomly tests three parts off the production line, what is the
probability that no more than one of the parts will have a defect?
Problem Set 2: Joint and Conditional Probability pg. 2

Questions 4-7 refer to the following information:

The owner of a bookstore has been collecting data about her customers’ buying habits in order to more
effectively manage inventory and promotions. Her store’s customers are 60% female and 40% male.
Among the store’s male customers, 50% prefer non-fiction, 20% prefer fiction, and 30% prefer buying
music. Among the female customers, 30% prefer non-fiction, 50% prefer fiction, and 20% prefer music.

4) What is the probability that one of the store’s customers prefers non-fiction books?

5) What is the probability that a customer is female and prefers to purchase music?

6) What is the probability that a customer is male or prefers fiction?

7) True or false: the events Male and Prefers Non-Fiction are independent. Why or why not?
Problem Set 2: Joint and Conditional Probability pg. 3

8) 80% of the customers at a pub order drinks and 35% order food. Assuming that there are no
customers who order neither food nor drinks, what is the probability that a customer who orders drinks
will also order food?

Questions 9 & 10 refer to the following information:

A webpage tracks the visitors to their site according to whether they have signed in to the site and
according to what device they have used to access the page. The results are listed in the table below:

Browsing Device
Signed In? Smartphone Tablet Personal Computer
Yes 13% 6% 20%
No 17% 8% 36%

9) What is the probability that a visitor to the site is not using a personal computer?

10) If a visitor is signed in, what is the probability that the visitor is using a smartphone to access the
site?

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