PROBABILITY TRY THIS!!!

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promotion as follows. With any mall
A family special at a neighborhood restaurant purchase of $50 or more, the customer
offers dinner for four for $39.99. There are 3 gets to spin the wheel shown here. If a
appetizers available, 4 entrees, and 3 desserts number 1 comes up, the customer
from which to choose. The special includes wins $10. If the number 2 comes up,
one of each. Represent the possible dinner the customer wins $5; and if the
combinations with a tree diagram. number 3 or 4 comes up, the customer
wins a discount coupon. Find the
following probabilities.
a. The customer wins $10.
b. The customer wins money.
c. The customer wins a coupon.

2. The following information shows the

amount of debt students who
graduated from college incur.

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1. If two dice are rolled one time, find If a person who graduates has some debt, find
the probability of getting these results. the probability that
a. A sum of 9 a. It is less than $5001
b. A sum of 7 or 11 b. It is more than $20,000
c. Doubles c. It is between $1 and $20,000
d. A sum less than 9 d. It is more than $50,000
e. A sum greater than or equal to
10

ADDITION & MULTIPLICATION

RULES OF PROBABILITY

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1. Five cards are dealt from a well-shuffled

deck.
 a. Find the probability that all are face
cards.
b. Find the probability that 3 are face 2. Two bins contain transistors. The first
cards and 2 are eights. has 4 defective and 15 nondefective,
c. Find the probability that all are face while the second has 3 defective and
cards or all are red cards. 22 nondefective ones. If the
d. Find the probability that none is a probability of picking either bin is the
face card. same, what is the probability of
picking a defective transistor from the
second bin?

PROBABILITY OF THE
COMPLEMENT OF AN EVENT

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1. In a shooting game, the probability

that Kim, Ken, and Karla can hit the
2. If one card is drawn from an ordinary deck target is 1/3, 4, and 1/6, respectively.
of cards, find the probability of getting the What is the probability that the target
following: will be hit if they all shoot at it once?
a. a king or queen or jack
b. a club or a heart or a spade

2. The Neckware Association of America

reported that 3% of ties sold in the
United States are bow ties. If 4
customers who purchased a tie are
randomly selected. Find the
probability that at least 1 purchased a
bow tie.

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1. A box contains 3 defective and 4

nondefective transistors. One
randomly selects a transistor (without 3. A coin is tossed 5 times. Find the
replacement) until a nondefective one probability of getting at least 1 tail?
is obtained. What is the probability
that the number of transistors selected
is three?

PERMUTATIONS WITH CASES

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 1. In how many ways can the letters of 4. A large bin contains 80 balls of which 32 are
the word MATHALINO be arranged if red balls and 48 are blue balls. Suppose 15
the vowels are to come together? balls are picked at random. Find the
probability of getting 4 red balls, the mean
number of red balls, and the standard deviation
of the number of red balls if the sample is
picked
a. with replacement
2. In how many ways can the letters of b. without replacement.
the word MATHEMATICS be
arranged if the consonants are to come
together?

3. How many 7 digit numbers can be

formed using the digits 1, 2, 0, 2, 4, 2,
4?

COMBINATIONS WITH CASES

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1. In how many ways a committee

consisting of 3 men and 2 women, can
be chosen from 7 men and 5 women?

2. How many groups of 4 hearts and 2 5. Suppose a box contains five red balls and
spades can be made from the 13 hearts ten blue balls. If seven balls are selected at
and 13 spades in a deck of cards? random without replacement, find the
probability that at least 3 red balls will be
obtained.

3. At a medical research center an

experimental drug is to be given to 12
people, 6 men and 6 women. If 10
men and 9 women have volunteered to
be given the drug, in how many ways
can the researcher choose the 12
people to be given the drug?

HYPERGEOMETRIC
DISTRIBUTION (PROBABILITY)

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The number of males mates of a queen bee

was found to have a Poisson Distribution with
the parameter λ = 2.7. Find the probability that
BINOMIAL PROBABILITY the number, N, of male mates of a queen bee is
DISTRIBUTION a. Exactly 2
b. At most 2
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d. Develop a table of probabilities for
Suppose the probability is 0.67 that the the random variable, N. Compute the
favourite in a horse race will finish in the probabilities until they are zero to 4
money (first, second, or third place). In the decimal places.
next 5 races, what is the probability that the e. Draw a histogram of the
favourite finishes the money probabilities in part (c).
a. exactly 2 times
b.exactly 4 times
c. at least 4 times
d. between 2 and 4 times, inclusive.
e. find the probability distribution of
the random variable, X, the number of
times the favourite finishes in the
money in the next 5 races
f. identify the probability distribution
of X as right skewed, symmetric, or
left skewed without checking its
probability distribution or its
histogram
g. draw a probability histogram for X.
h.find the mean and standard deviation
of the random variable X. THE MULTINOMIAL
DISTRIBUTION

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A box contains 4 white balls, 3 red balls, and 3

blue balls. A ball is selected at random, and its
color is written down. It is replaced each time.
Find the probability that if 5 balls are selected,
2 are white, 2 are red, and 1 is blue.

POISSON DISTRIBUTION