STA101: Introduction to Statistics

Assignment 04
1. A survey of 35 students at the Wall College of Business showed the following majors:

Accounting 10

Finance 5

Economics 4

Management 6

Marketing 10

If you randomly select a student, then

a. What is the probability he or she is a management major?
b. Which approach of probability did you use to make this estimate?

2. The aquarium at Sea Critters Depot contains 150 fish. Ninety of these fish are green
swordtails (54 female and 36 male) and 60 are orange swordtails (36 female and 24
males). A fish is randomly captured from the aquarium:
a. What is the probability the selected fish is a green swordtail?
b. What is the probability the selected fish is male?
c. What is the probability the selected fish is a male green swordtail?
d. What is the probability the selected fish is either a male or a green swordtail?

3. In a simultaneous throw of a pair of fair 6-sided dice, first write down the sample space
and then find the probability of getting:
a. 8 as the sum
b. a doublet (two dice landing on the same value)
c. a doublet of odd numbers
d. a sum greater than 9
e. an even number on first die
4. A survey of 545 college students asked: What is your favorite winter sport? And, what
type of college do you attend? The results are summarized below:

Snowboarding Skiing Ice Skating Total

Junior College 41 46 155

Four-Year College 84 56

Graduate School 59 47 180

Total 211 171 545

Complete the above Contingency table.

a. What is the probability of selecting a student whose favorite sport is skiing?
b. What is the probability of selecting a junior-college student?
c. If the student selected is a four-year-college student, what is the probability that
the student prefers ice skating?
d. If the student selected prefers snowboarding, what is the probability that the
student is in junior college?
e. If a graduate student is selected, what is the probability that the student prefers
skiing or ice skating?

5. Suppose there are 8 fair coins and 12 unfair coins in a bag such that the unfair coins have
a 75% probability of landing heads. A coin is randomly picked from the bag and flipped.
a. What is the probability that the coin is unfair and flipped as head?
b. What is the probability that the coin is fair if it is flipped as a tail?
c. What is the probability of having a tail?

6. A bag contains 25 balls numbered 1 through 25. Suppose an odd number is considered a
‘Success’. Two balls are drawn from the bag with replacement. Find the probability of
getting:
a. Two successes
b. exactly one success
c. no successes