2 September 2021 Exercise Set 1 Math 302

1- Union officials report that 60% of workers at a large factory belong to the union,
90% make over $12 per hour, and 40% belong to the union and make over $12 per
hour. Can these percentages possibly be true? Explain using probability.

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2- A family has n children. We pick one of them at random and find out that he is a
boy. What is the probability that all their children are boys?

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3- A study was conducted in 1997 to measure the total fat content, calories, and sodium
content of vegetable burgers available at supermarkets and commonly used as meat
substitute. Measurements on 54 deferent brands of "veggie burgers", and the results
were used to develop the 3-way contingency table below.

Define the following events:

A= {Under 130 Calories}
B= {320 g Sodium or More}
C= {Over 4 g Total Fat}
A vegetable burger is selected randomly from the group. Find the following
probabilities:
a) ( ) , ( ), and ( )
b) ( ), ( ) and ( )
c) ( )
d) ( )

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4. A clinical psychologist is given tapes of 20 subjects discussing their recent dreams.

(a) Suppose the psychologist only has time to view 5 tapes (in any order). How many
deferent samples of 5 tapes can be selected?
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5. A desk lamp produced by The Luminar Company was found to be defective (D). There
are three factories (A, B, C) where such desk lamps are manufactured. A Quality Control
Manager (QCM) is responsible for investigating the source of found defects. This is what
the QCM knows about the company's desk lamp production and the possible source of
defects:

The QCM would like to answer the following question: If a randomly selected lamp is
defective, what is the probability that the lamp was manufactured in factory C?
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6. Three cooks, A, B, and C, bake a special kind of cake, and with respective
probabilities .02, .03, and
.05, it fails to rise. In the restaurant where they work, A bakes 50 percent of these
cakes, B 30 percent,
and C 20 percent. What proportion of “failures” is caused by A?
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7. Select the best answer:

1. How many different committees of 5 people can be chosen from 10 people?

2. A password consists of two letters of the alphabet followed by three digits chosen
from 0 to 9. Repeats are allowed. How many different possible passwords are
there?

3. An encyclopedia has eight volumes. In how many ways can the eight volumes be
replaced on the shelf?

4. A restaurant offers 5 choices of appetizer, 10 choices of main meal and 4 choices

of dessert. A customer can choose to eat just one course, or two different courses,
or all three courses. Assuming all choices are available, how many different
possible meals does the restaurant offer?

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