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Exercises - Chapter 1 - XSTKE

This document contains 14 exercises involving calculating probabilities of various random events, such as rolling dice, guessing answers on a quiz, randomly selecting products or people with certain characteristics. The exercises cover concepts like finding individual probabilities, conditional probabilities, and probabilities of unions and intersections of events. They provide practice with applying the basic rules of probability to real-world scenarios.

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Exercises - Chapter 1 - XSTKE

This document contains 14 exercises involving calculating probabilities of various random events, such as rolling dice, guessing answers on a quiz, randomly selecting products or people with certain characteristics. The exercises cover concepts like finding individual probabilities, conditional probabilities, and probabilities of unions and intersections of events. They provide practice with applying the basic rules of probability to real-world scenarios.

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Lecturer: Nguyen Duong Nguyen Mathematics Department, Faculty of Basic Science, FTU

Chapter 1. Events and their probabilities


Exercise 1. Roll two dice simultaneously. Find the probability to
a) get a sum of 7.
b) get a sum which is less than 8.
c) get at least one side of 6 dots.
Exercise 2. The last three guests left the house and forgot their hats. The host don't
know the owners of those hats, so they randomly send them back. Find the probability
that:
a) All three guests are paid wrong hats.
b) There is exactly one guest that is paid rightly the hat.
c) There are exactly two guests that are paid rightly hats.
d) All three guests are paid rightly hats.
Exercise 3. The elevator of a 7-storey building starts from the first floor with 3 guests.
Find the probability that:
a) They all get out of the elevator on the fourth floor.
b) They all get out of the elevator on the same floor.
c) Each person gets out of the elevator on a different floor.
Exercise 4. Ten customers randomly walk into a store with three counters. Find the
probability that three people go to counter number 1.
Exercise 5. Let A and B be two events such that P( A)  0.3, P( A  B)  0.5 and
P( AB)  0.2. Find

a) P( B)
b) the probability that A but not B occurs
c) P A  
d) the probability that B does not occur
e) the probability that neither A nor B occurs.
Exercise 6. Let A1 , A2 , and A 3 be three events, such that each event has probability
1 1 1
, each intersection of two has probability , and P(A1A 2 A3 )  . Find the
2 4 8
probability that
a) at least one of the events occurs
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b) none of the events occurs


c) exactly two of the events occur.
d) exactly one of the events occurs
Exercise 7. Roll two symmetrical and homogeneous dice. Let A be the event that the
sum of dots obtained is odd and B be that event that there is at least one side with one
dot. Calculate P(AB), P(A + B), P(AB).
Exercise 8. Choose a number at random from the numbers 1,,100 . What is the
probability that the chosen number is divisible by either 2, 3, or 5?
Exercise 9. An is a student taking a statistics course. Unfortunately, An is not a good
student. An does not read the textbook before class, does not do homework, and
regularly misses class. An intends to rely on luck to pass the next quiz. The quiz
consists of 10 multiple-choice questions. Each question has five possible answers,
only one of which is correct. An plans to guess the answer to each question.
a) What is the probability that An gets two answers correct?
b) What is the probability that An gets at least one answer correct?
c) What is the probability that An gets at least eight answers correct?
Exercise 10. Two machines produce the same product. The defective products
proportion of machine I is 3% and machine II is 2%. From a warehouse including 2/3
products of machine I and 1/3 products of machine II, we take out one product at
random. Find the probability that the product taken out is good.
Exercise 11. There are two batchs of product. Batch 1 includes all quality products.
Batch 2 has the proportion of defective products and quality products of 1/4. We
randomly select one batch, and then from this batch, we take one product at random,
get the quality product. After that, we return this product back to the selected batch. If
we continue to take one product at random (also from the selected batch), what is the
probability that this product is a defective product?
Exercise 12. There are two batch of goods. Batch 1 has 7 quality products and 3
defective products. Batch 2 has 8 quality products and 2 defective products. From
batch 1, draw randomly 2 products. From batch 2, draw randomly 3 products. After
that, from the drawn products, draw randomly 2 products. Find the probability that
both drawn products are defective products.

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Exercise 13. The proportion of smokers in one area is 30%. Knowing that the
proportion of people suffering from sore throat among smokers is 60% while the
proportion of people suffering from sore throat among non-smokers is 40%. Select a
person at random in this area.
a) Find the probability that the selected person suffers from sore throat.
b) Suppose that the selected person has a sore throat. Find the probability that this
person is a smoker.
c) Suppose that the selected person does not have a sore throat. Find the probability
that this person is a smoker.
Exercise 14. A different number of light bulbs are present in three boxes. The first box
has 15 bulbs, out of which 7 are dead. The second box has 9 bulbs, out of which the
dead ones are 3. The third box has 11 bulbs, out of which 5 are dead. Find the
probability of selecting a dead bulb randomly from one of the three boxes.

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