CS 394R FS 2018, HW2(Discrete Counting Probability) 135 pts.

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1. (15 points total)

(a) (5 points) A committee of 10 people is to be chosen out of a total of 50. How many ways
can the committee be formed?
(b) (5 points) Joe, Amy, and Frank are all friends. How many ways can the same committee
be randomly chosen where Joe, Amy, and Frank are all members?
(c) (5 points) What is the probability that Joe, Amy, and Frank are all on the committee?

2. (15 points total)

(a) (5 points) A committee of 12 people is to be chosen out of a total of 50. How many ways
can the committee be formed?
(b) (5 points) Out of the 50 candidates, 28 are women and 22 are men. How many ways
can the committee be randomly chosen where 7 members are women and 5 members are
men? be formed?
(c) (5 points) What is the probability that 7 women and 5 men were chosen?

3. (15 points total)

(a) (5 points) Three committees of 10, 15, and 25 are to be chosen out of a total of 50. How
many ways can the committee be formed?
(b) (5 points) Joe and Amy are friends. What is the probability that Joe and Amy serve in
the first committee together?
(c) (5 points) What is the probability that Joe, and Amy, serve on ANY committee together?

4. (15 points total)

(a) (5 points) A box contains 5 marbles, 3 Red, 1 Green, 1 Blue. Consider an experiment
that consists of taking 1 marble from the box, then replacing it in the box and drawing a
second marble from the box. Describe the sample space. repeat when the second marble
is drawn without first replacing the first marble.
(b) (5 points) What is the probability that the first marble was Green and the second was
Blue with replacement?
(c) (5 points) What is the probability that the first marble was Green and the second was
Blue without replacement?

5. (15 points total) An elementary school is offering 3 language classes: one in Spanish, one in
French, and one in German. These classes are open to any of the 100 students in the school.
There are 28 students in the Spanish class, 26 in the French class and 26 in the German class.
There are 12 students that are in both Spanish and French, 5 that are in both Spanish and
German, and 6 that are in both French and German. In addition, there are 3 students taking
all 3 classes.

(a) (5 points) If a student is chosen randomly, what is the probability that they are not in
any of these classes.
(b) (5 points) If a student is chosen randomly, what is the probability that they are taking
exactly one language class.

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 (c) (5 points) If 2 students are chosen randomly, what is the probability that at least one is
taking a language class.

6. (10 points total) A system is composed of 4 components, each of which is either working or
failed. Consider an experiment that consists of observing the status of each component, and
let the outcome of the experiment be given by the vector (x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ), where xi is equal to
one if component i is working and is equal to 0 if component i is failed.

(a) (5 points) How many outcomes are in the sample space of this experiment?
(b) (5 points) Suppose that the system will work if components 1 and 2 are both working
or if components 3 and 4 are both working, or if components 1,3, and 4 are all working.
Let W be the event that the system will work. Specify all the outcomes in W

7. (15 points total) Poker dice is played by simultaneously rolling 5 dice. Show that

(a) (2 points)P {one pair} = .4630;

8. (10 points total) A pair of fair dice are rolled.

(a) (5 points) What is the probability that the second die lands on a value less than the
value of the first?
(b) (5 points) What is the probability that the second die lands on a value less than or equal
to 2/3 the value of the first?

9. (15 points total) The chess clubs of two schools consist of, respectively 10 and 12 players.
Six members from each club are randomly chosen to participate in a contest between the two
schools. The chosen players from one team are then randomly paired with those from the
other team, and each pairing plays a game of chess. Suppose that Rebecca and her sister
Elise are on the chess clubs at different schools. What is the probability that

(a) (5 points) Exactly one of Rebecca and Elise will be chosen to represent her school.
(b) (5 points) Rebecca and Elise will be paired.
(c) (5 points) Rebecca and Elise will be chosen to represent their schools but will not play
each other.

10. (10 points total) Two dice are thrown n times in succession.

(a) (5 points) Compute the probability that a double 3 appears at least once?
(b) (5 points) How large need n to be to make this probability at least 1/2