Chapter 3: Problem 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?
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Chapter 3: Problem 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?
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An urn cont?ins \(b\) black balls and \(r\) red balls. One of the balls is drawn at random, but when it is put back in the urn, \(c\) additional balls of the same color are put in with it. Now, suppose that we draw another ball. Show that the probability that the first ball was black, given that the second ball drawn was red, is \(b /(b+r+c)\).
Urn A contains 2 white balls and 1 black ball, whereas urn \(B\) contains 1 white ball and 5 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from urn \(A\) and placed in urn \(B\). A ball is then drawn from um \(B\). It happens to be white. What is the probability that the ball transferred was white?
An engineering system consisting of \(n\) components is said to be a \(k\)-out- of\(n\) system \((k \leq n)\) if the system functions if and only if at least \(k\) of the \(n\) components function. Suppose that all components function independently of each other. (a) If the \(i\) th component functions with probability \(P_{t}, i=1,2,3,4\), compute the probability that a 2-out-of-4 system functions. (b) Repeat part (a) for a 3-out-of-5 system. (c) Repeat for a \(k\)-out-of- \(n\) system when all the \(P_{i}\) equal \(p\) (that is, \(P_{i}=p\), \(i=1,2, \ldots, n)\)
Three cards are randomly selected, without replacement, from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. Compute the conditional probability that the first card selected is a spade, given that the second and third cards are spades.
Suppose that each child born to a couple is equally likely to be a boy or a girl independent of the sex distribution of the other children in the family. For a couple having 5 children, compute the probabilities of the following events: (a) All children are of the same sex. (b) The 3 eldest are boys and the others girls. (c) Exactly 3 are boys. (d) The 2 oldest are girls. (e) There is at least 1 girl
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