AME University

Camp Johnson Road

Monrovia, Liberia
Depart of Economics
Economics 302 (Statistics II) Section 5
Assignment #1

Due Date: October 11, 2024 @18.00 GMT latest

Instruction: Carefully read the questions and provide the

requested answers.

Q1. Suppose the sample space for an experiment is: S =

{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}. We derive three events (R1, R2 and R3)

from the sample space. Let the events be further defined as below:

1. R1 = {1,2,3,4,5},

2. R2 = {4,5,6,7,8} and

3. R3 = {7,9}

Find:

a. P(R1nR2nR3)
b. P(Not R1 or R2)
c. P (R2 or R3)
d. P(R3) Complement. That is P(R3)’
 e. P(R1 or R2 or R3)
f. P(R1 or R2)

Q2. Let:

I. Event A = learning Spanish.

II. Event B = learning German.

III. Then A AND B = learning Spanish and German.

Suppose P(A) = 0.4; P(B) = 0.2. and P (A AND B) = 0.08.

a) Are events A and B independent?

b) Are events A and B mutually exclusive?

Q3) Let

I. Event G = taking a math class.

II. Event H= taking a science class.

III. Then, G AND H = taking a math class and a science class.

Suppose P(G) = 0.6, P(H) = 0.5, and P (G AND H) = 0.3.

a) Are G and H Independent? Say how you know?

b) Are G and H Mutually Exclusive? How do you know?

Q4. Let

I. Event C = taking an English class.

 II. Event J = taking a Japanese class.

III. Suppose P(C)=0.75, P(J)=0.3, P(C|J) = 0.75 and P(C AND J) =

0.225.

a. Are C and J independent?

b. Are C and J mutually exclusive?
c. What is P(J|C)?

Justify your answers above numerically.

Q5. In a football stadium:

I. 70% of the fans are rooting for the home team.

II. 25% of the fans are wearing blue.

III. 20% of the fans are wearing blue and are rooting for the away

team.

IV. Of the fans rooting for the away team, 67% are wearing blue.

Let:

I. A be the event that a fan is rooting for the away team.

II. B be the event that a fan is wearing blue.

a) Are the events of rooting for the away team and wearing blue

independent?
 b) Are the events of rooting for the away team and wearing blue

mutually exclusive?

Q6) In a college Maths and Stats class, 60% of the students are

female. Fifty percent of all students in the class have long hair.

Forty-five percent of the students are female and have long hair.

Of the female students, 75% have long hair. Let

I. F be the event that a student is female.

II. L be the event that a student has long hair.

The following probabilities are given in this question:

1. P(F) = 0.60
2. P(L) = 0.50
3. P (F AND L) = 0.45
4. P(L|F) = 0.75

a) Are the events of being female and having long hair

independent? Motivate your answer.

Q7. Toss one fair coin (the coin has two sides, HH and TT).

a) The outcomes are ________.

b) Count the outcomes. There are ____ outcomes.

c) Toss one fair, six-sided die (the die has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 dots on

a side). The outcomes are

___________________________________

d) Count the outcomes. There are ___ outcomes.

e) Multiply the two numbers of outcomes in b and d above. The

answer is _______.

f) If you flip one fair coin and follow it with the toss of one fair,

six-sided die, what are the outcomes? (Hint: Two of the

outcomes are H1 and T6.)

g) Let event A= heads (H) on the coin followed by an even number

(2, 4, 6) on the die. A = {____________}.

h) Find P(A).

i) Let event B= heads on the coin followed by the number 3 on the

die. B= {________}.

j) Find P(B).

k) Are events A and B mutually exclusive? (Hint: What is P (A AND

B)? If P(A AND B)= 0, then A and B are mutually exclusive.

l) Are events A and B independent? Hint: Is P (A AND B) =

P(A)*P(B)? If P (A AND B) = P(A)*P(B), then A and B are

independent. If not, they are dependent).

Q8. U and V are mutually exclusive events. P(U)= 0.26; P(V)= 0.37.

Find:

a. P (U AND V)

b. P(U|V)

c. P (U OR V)

d. P(V|U)

Q9. Q and R are independent events. P(Q) = 0.4 and P (QandR) =

0.1

Find:

a) P(R)

b) b) P (Q or R)
Q10. A previous year, the weights of the members of two sports

teams were published in a local newspaper. The factual data are

compiled into Table below.

Players Weight in Pounds

Shirt# ≤ 210 211–250 251–290 290≤
1–33 21 5 0 0
34–66 6 18 7 4
66–99 6 12 22 5

Suppose that you randomly select one player from Team A and Team B.

If having a shirt number from 1 to 33 and weighing at most 210 pounds

were independent events, then what should be true about:

a) P (Shirt#1–33|≤210 pounds)?

Q11. At a local language school, 40% of the students are learning

Spanish, 20% of the students are learning German, and 8% of the

students are learning both Spanish and German.

a) What is the probability that a randomly selected student is

learning Spanish or German?

 Q12. Suppose a study of speeding violations and drivers who use cell

phones while driving, produced the following fictional data:

Speeding violation in the No speeding violation in

Total
last year the last year

Cell phone user 25 280 305

Not a cell phone

45 405 450
user

Total 70 685 755

a) What is the probability that a randomly selected person is a cell

phone user or has no speeding violations in the last year?

b) What is the probability that a randomly selected person had a

speeding violation in the last year or does not use a cell phone?
 Q13. This table below shows the number of athletes who stretch

before exercising and how many had injuries within the past year.

Injury in last year No injury in last year Total

Stretches 55 295 350

Does not
231 219 450
stretch

Total 286 514 800

a) What is the probability that a randomly selected athlete stretches

before exercising or had an injury last year?

b) What is the probability that a randomly selected athlete does not

stretch before exercising or had no injuries in the last year?

Q14. You roll a fair die one time.

a. Are the events “rolling a 4” and “rolling an even number”

mutually exclusive?

b. Are the events “rolling a 4” and “rolling an odd number”

mutually exclusive?

c. What is the probability of rolling a 4 or rolling an odd

number?