IE5004, Homework 2

2.10 Sixty percent of the students at a certain school wear neither a ring nor a necklace. Twenty
percent wear a ring and 30 percent wear a necklace. If one of the students is chosen randomly,
what is the probability that this student is wearing

a. a ring or a necklace?
b. a ring and a necklace?

2.18 Two cards are randomly selected from an ordinary playing deck. What is the probability
that they form a blackjack? That is, what is the probability that one of the cards is an ace
and the other one is either a ten, a jack, a queen, or a king?

2.20 Suppose that you are playing blackjack against a dealer. In a freshly shuffled deck, what is
the probability that neither you nor the dealer is dealt a blackjack?

2.23 A pair of fair dice is rolled. What is the probability that the second die lands on a higher
value than does the first?

3.1 Two fair dice are rolled. What is the conditional probability that at least one lands on 6 given
that the dice land on different numbers?

3.17 In a certain community, 36 percent of the families own a dog and 22 percent of the families
that own a dog also own a cat. In addition, 30 percent of the families own a cat. What is

a. the probability that a randomly selected family owns both a dog and a cat?
b. the conditional probability that a randomly selected family owns a dog given that it owns
a cat?

3.43 There are 3 coins in a box. One is a two-headed coin, another is a fair coin, and the third is
a biased coin that comes up heads 75 percent of the time. When one of the 3 coins is selected
at random and flipped, it shows heads. What is the probability that it was the two-headed
coin?