Month: April 2014

Problem 119 In a family with two children, what are the probabilities of the following outcomes, assuming that the birth of boys and girls is equally likely?   Solution  …

Problem 118 Suppose that an experiment has five separate mutually exclusive outcomes: A, B, C, D, and E. If the sample space for the experiment is a uniform sample space,…

Problem  117  Consider a bowl containing 36 different slips of paper. Ten of the slips of paper each contain one of the set of digits 0 through 9 and 26…

Problem 116 Consider the experiment of selecting a card from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards and determine the probability of the stated event. A card that is not…

Problem 115 Consider the experiment of rolling a single die. What is the probability of rolling a number that is divisible by 2 or 3?   Solution   Total outcomes…

Problem  114 If a single letter is drawn from the set {m, a, t, h, e, i, c, s} what is the probability that the letter drawn is a member…

Problem 113 The Bulb Bragain Problem. Suppose that you are the chief of maintenance for a large metropolitan hospital. You are trying to decide from what company to buy your…

Problem 112 Averageville is considering levying a flat tax on its citizens. To get an idea of the amount of revenue this tax would raise, the city council instructed the…

Problem 111 Suppose that a newspaper published the following in a boxed corner of the want ads section:   Should handgun control be abolished? You can call the shots if…

Problem 110 The data in the table are the number and percent of U.S. high students scoring in specific range on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) in mathematics. Use these…