5,366 Answered Questions for the topic probability

05/31/20

What is the difference between the Beta and Gamma distribution?
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05/31/20

A fridge contains 8 oranges, 8 apples and 8 pears. You randomly select two fruits one after another. What is the probability of selecting two different kinds of fruit in a row?

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05/31/20

A local union has ten members, four of whom are men. Three of the members are chosen by a lottery to represent the union on a bargaining council. Find the probability of each event.

a) Two women and one man are chosenb) At least one man is chosen
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05/31/20

Expected Value Question

A player pays $4 to play the following game: He rolls a die and receives $6 if he tosses and a 5 and $2 for anything else. Find the player’s expected net winnings for the game. Is the game fair? If... more
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05/31/20

Expected Value Question

A business man evaluated a proposed venture. He estimated that the probability of making a profit of $9000 is 0.2; the probability of making $5000 is 0.4; the probability of breaking even is 0.3;... more
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05/31/20

Expected Value Question

In a fast food store’s lucky number contest, 25% of the customers win $1, 10% win $10, 4% win $20 and 1% win $50. Find the expected winnings of a customer.
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05/31/20

Expected Value Question
A box contains 4 red and 6 green balls. Two balls are drawn. You receive $10 if both are red and you pay $1 otherwise. What are your expected earnings?
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05/31/20

The next test will consist of five questions.

Each question will be multiple choice, with 4 possible solutions listed for each question. What is the probability of an individual correctly answering every question by guessing?
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Probability

05/31/20

Two marbles are drawn without replacement from a box with 3 white, 2 green, and 1 blue marble. Find the probability
a) that both marbles are white?b) that you draw a green and a white marble?
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Probability Math Statistics Logic

05/31/20

Very difficult probability problem More help would be appreciated! - What is the probability that at least one attendee is on the call with everyone else?
One Friday morning, suppose everyone in the U.S. (about 330 million people) joins a single Zoom meeting between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. This being a virtual meeting, many people will join late and leave... more
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Probability

05/30/20

Greg has a .78 chance of making par on each hole of golf that he plays. Today he plans to play just three holes. Find the probability of each event. Round answers to three significant figures.
a) He makes par on all three holes.b) He makes par of exactly two of the three holes. c) He makes par on at least one of the three holes. d) He makes par on the first and third holes but not the... more
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05/30/20

How many five card poker hands consisting of the same suit are possible?
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Probability

05/30/20

Telephone area codes are three-digit numbers of the form XXX.

a) Originally, the first and third digits were neither 0 or 1 and the second digit was always a 0 or 1. How many three-digit numbers of this type are possible?b) Over time, the restrictions listed... more
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Probability

05/28/20

Question on lightbulb probability

Sorry I’m not sure what kind of math this is I’m confused A box contains 9 good light bulbs and 3 defective bulbs. Find the probability that a random sample of 4 bulbs contains exactly 1 defective... more
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Probability

05/28/20

Probability Dice Question
Alice is playing a game in which she will roll 4 6-sided dice at the same time. She gets 5 points for each die that shows an even result. Let x represent the total number of points awarded on any... more
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05/27/20

math homework for 7th grade
Clinton has two spinners. Spinner A has four congruent sections and Spinner B has three congruent sections as shown. Clinton will spin these two spinners at the same time.                  What is... more
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05/27/20

Conditional Probability of a Marble Drawing System
Suppose someone has a bag of 5 yellow, 10 red, 15 green, and 20 orange marbles. There are 4 rounds to the drawing, and each round consists of 2 steps. First, a marble is chosen at random from the... more
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05/26/20

27 people attend a conference. door prizes are awarded randomly to 2 people. what is the probability that Adam and Samantha will win the door prizes?
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Probability

05/26/20

Probability question.
When tetanus affects new born infants,it has been observed that only 10% recover in a random sample of 5 new borne affected by tetanus. What is the probability that: 1. Only 2 of them recovers. 2.... more
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Probability

05/25/20

Suppose you are going to draw two cards from a standard deck. What is the probability that the first card is a Jack and the second card is an even card?
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Probability Statistics

05/24/20

How to show that P(B|A')+P(B'|A')=1?
Suppose that A and B are any two events and P(A)>0, show that P(B|A')+P(B'|A')=1?
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Probability

05/23/20

Not sure how to determine PMF
In random access communication protocols a population of users is contending for the use of a common channel to transmit their packets, without the control and supervision of a master station. In... more
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Probability

05/23/20

Need help determining PDF, please.
Given are two random variables X and Y for which the joint probability density function fX,Y (x, y) is given by: fX,Y (x, y) = 0.5xy for 0 ≤ x ≤ y ≤ 2fX,Y (x, y) = 0 otherwise.Let Z = Y − X.... more
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Probability Math Algebra 2

05/22/20

An art gallery has 9 paintings to display along a hallway. How many different ways can they choose and display 6 of the paintings.

A. 4320B. 40320C 60,480D.362,880
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Probability Algebra 2

05/22/20

Introduction to Probability
A teacher selects 3 students from a class of 24 to present their reports. Find the number of orders 3 students can be assigned to present.number of orders=
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