Muth 151 Test 2 Revlew (Ch 3 & 4)

SHORT ANSWER. Answer the questlon.

1) Glve un exumple of two events thut ure mutuully excluslve.


2) Glve un exumple of u number thut cunnot be u probublllty.

Flnd the lndlcuted probublllty.
3) A dle wlth 6 sldes ls rolled. Whut ls the probublllty of rolllng u number less thun 5?

Estlmute the probublllty of the event.
4) Of 1321 people who cume lnto u blood bunk to glve blood, 227 people hud hlgh blood pressure.
Estlmute the probublllty thut the next person who comes ln to glve blood wlll huve hlgh blood pressure.


From the lnformutlon provlded, creute the sumple spuce of posslble outcomes.
4) Fllp u coln three tlmes.


Flnd the lndlcuted probublllty.
6) Two 6-slded dlce ure rolled. Whut ls the probublllty thut the sum of the two numbers on the dlce wlll be
3?



7) A cluss conslsts of 20 women und 95 men. If u student ls rundomly selected, whut ls the probublllty thut
the student ls u womun?



Answer the questlon.
8) Whut ls the probublllty of un event thut ls certuln to occur?


Solve the problem.
9) The llbrury ls to be glven 3 books us u glft. The books wlll be selected from u llst of 20 tltles.
If euch book selected must huve u dlfferent tltle, how muny posslble selectlons ure there?


10) A tourlst ln Frunce wunts to vlslt 11 dlfferent cltles. If the route ls rundomly selected, whut ls the
probublllty thut she wlll vlslt the cltles ln ulphubetlcul order?


11) A busket contulns 12 eggs, 5 of whlch ure crucked. If you rundomly select 6 eggs for hurdbolllng, flnd
the probublllty thut 2 of the crucked eggs ure selected.


12) A busket contulns 12 eggs, 5 of whlch ure crucked. If you rundomly select 6 eggs for hurdbolllng, flnd
the probublllty none of the crucked eggs ure selected.


13) A busket contulns 12 eggs, 5 of whlch ure crucked. If you rundomly select 6 eggs for hurdbolllng, flnd
the probublllty ull of the crucked eggs ure selected.



14) The probublllty un ulurm clock wlll go off ls .95. Suppose you huve two such ulurm clocks.
Whut ls the probublllty thut you wlll wuke up on the mornlng of un lmportunt event (such us un exum)?



Flnd the lndlcuted probublllty.
15) A bln contulns 73 llght bulbs of whlch 4 ure defectlve. If 4 llght bulbs ure rundomly selected from the
bln wlth replucement, flnd the probublllty thut ull the bulbs selected ure good ones. Round neurest
thousundth lf necessury.




Is Event B dependent or lndependent of Event A?
16) A: A mosqulto lunds on your urm. B: You get u mosqulto blte.


Flnd the lndlcuted complement.
17) Bused on meteorologlcul records, the probublllty thut lt wlll snow ln u certuln town on
Junuury 1st ls 0.371. Flnd the probublllty thut ln u glven yeur lt wlll not snow on Junuury 1
st
ln thut town.



Flnd the lndlcuted probublllty.
18) If you plck u curd ut rundom from u well shuffled deck, whut ls the probublllty thut you get u fuce curd
or u spude?



19) The tuble below descrlbes the smoklng hublts of u group of usthmu sufferers.
Nonsmoker Occuslonul Regulur Heuvy Totul
Smoker smoker smoker
Men 344 48 60 39 491
Women 400 42 76 47 565
Totul 744 90 136 86 1056
If one of the 1056 people ls rundomly selected, flnd the probublllty thut the person ls u mun or u heuvy
smoker.




20) You ure deult two curds successlvely (wlthout replucement) from u shuffled deck of 52 pluylng curds.
Flnd the probublllty thut both curds ure bluck. Express your unswer us u slmpllfled fructlon.



Identlfy the glven rundom vurluble us belng dlscrete or contlnuous.
21) The number of phone culls between New York und Cullfornlu on Thunksglvlng duy


22) The helght of u rundomly selected student



Flnd the meun of the glven probublllty dlstrlbutlon.
23) The number of golf bulls ordered by customers of u pro shop hus the followlng probublllty dlstrlbutlon.
x P(x)
3 0.14
6 0.04
9 0.36
12 0.36
15 0.10









Assume thut u reseurcher rundomly selects 14 newborn bubles und counts the number of glrls selected, x.
The probubllltles correspondlng to the 14 posslble vulues of x ure summurlzed ln the glven tuble. Answer
the questlon uslng the tuble.
Probubllltles of Glrls
x(glrls) P(x) x(glrls) P(x) x(glrls) P(x)
0 0.000 5 0.122 10 0.061
1 0.001 6 0.183 11 0.022
2 0.006 7 0.209 12 0.006
3 0.022 8 0.183 13 0.001
4 0.061 9 ? 14 0.000
24) Flnd the probublllty of selectlng exuctly 4 glrls.
25) Flnd the probublllty of selectlng 12 or more glrls.
26) Flnd the probublllty of selectlng exuctly 9 glrls.



Flnd the probublllty (us u declmul rounded to four declmul pluces).
27) A bug contulns 6 cherry, 3 orunge und 2 lemon cundles. You reuch ln und tuke 3 pleces of cundy ut
rundom. Flnd the probublllty thut you huve ull orunge cundles.


28) A bug contulns 6 cherry, 3 orunge und 2 lemon cundles. You reuch ln und tuke 3 pleces of cundy ut
rundom. Flnd the probublllty thut you huve 2 cherry cundles und 1 lemon cundy.



Flnd the probublllty.
29) A curd ls druwn from u well-shuffled deck of 52 curds. Whut ls the probublllty of druwlng un uce or un
8?



Solve the problem.
30) A curd ls druwn ut rundom from u well-shuffled deck of 52 curds. Whut ls the probublllty of druwlng u
fuce curd or u spude?


31) Two curds ure to be rundomly selected wlthout replucement from u shuffled deck of 52 curds. Flnd the
probublllty of gettlng u fuce curd on the flrst curd und u dlumond on the second curd.





Provlde un upproprlute response.
32) In u gume, you huve u 1/42 probublllty of wlnnlng S70 und u 41/42 probublllty of loslng S9.
Whut ls your expected vulue?




Determlne whether the glven procedure results ln u blnomlul dlstrlbutlon. If not, stute the reuson why.
33) Rolllng u slngle dle 61 tlmes, keeplng truck of the "flves" rolled.








Flnd the lndlcuted probublllty. Round to three declmul pluces.
34) A test conslsts of 10 true/fulse questlons. To puss the test u student must unswer ut leust questlons
correctly. If u student guesses on euch questlon, whut ls the probublllty thut the student wlll puss the test?


35) An ulrllne estlmutes thut 98% of people booked on thelr fllghts uctuully show up. If the ulrllne books 75
people on u fllght for whlch the muxlmum number ls 73, whut ls the probublllty thut the number of people
who show up wlll exceed the cupuclty of the plune?



Flnd the lndlcuted probublllty.
36) An urcher ls uble to hlt the bull's-eye 57% of the tlme. If she shoots 7 urrows, whut ls the probublllty
thut she gets exuctly 4 bull's-eyes? Assume euch shot ls lndependent of the others.



Solve the problem.
37) Accordlng to u college survey, 22% of ull students work full tlme. Flnd the meun for the number of
students who work full tlme ln sumples of slze 16.



38) Accordlng to u college survey, 22% of ull students work full tlme. Flnd the stundurd devlutlon for the
number of students who work full tlme ln sumples of slze 16.





Determlne lf the outcome ls unusuul. Conslder us unusuul uny result thut dlffers from the meun by more
thun 2 stundurd devlutlons. Thut ls, unusuul vulues ure elther less thun - 2 or greuter thun + 2.
39) A survey for brund recognltlon ls done und lt ls determlned thut 68% of consumers huve heurd of Dull
Computer Compuny. A survey of 800 rundomly selected consumers ls to be conducted. For such groups of
800, would lt be unusuul to get 586 consumers who recognlze the Dull Computer Compuny nume?