Chapter 3: Q. 3.2 (page 106)
Let . Express the following probabilities as simply as possible:
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means that if occurs, will too, that is that there is no in .
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Chapter 3: Q. 3.2 (page 106)
Let . Express the following probabilities as simply as possible:
means that if occurs, will too, that is that there is no in .
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Let , and be events relating to the experiment of rolling a pair of dice.
(a) If localid="1647938016434" and localid="1647938126689" either prove that localid="1647938033174" or give a counterexample by defining events and for which that relationship is not true.
(b) If localid="1647938162035" and either prove that or give a counterexample by defining events and for which that relationship is not true. Hint: Let be the event that the sum of a pair of dice is ; let be the event that the first die lands on ; let be the event that the second die lands on .
The following method was proposed to estimate the number of people over the age of 50 who reside in a town of known population 100,000: 鈥淎s you walk along the streets, keep a running count of the percentage of people you encounter who are over 50. Do this for a few days; then multiply the percentage you obtain by 100,000 to obtain the estimate.鈥 Comment on this method. Hint: Let p denote the proportion of people in the town who are over 50. Furthermore, let 伪1 denote the proportion of time that a person under the age of 50 spends in the streets, and let 伪2 be the corresponding value for those over 50. What quantity does the method suggest estimate? When is the estimate approximately equal to p?
On rainy days, Joe is late to work with probability ; on nonrainy days, he is late with probability . With probability , it will rain tomorrow.
(a) Find the probability that Joe is early tomorrow.
(b) Given that Joe was early, what is the conditional probability that it rained?
If two fair dice are rolled, what is the conditional probability that the first one lands on 6 given that the sum of the dice is ? Compute for all values of between and
Let S = {1, 2, . . . , n} and suppose that A and B are, independently, equally likely to be any of the 2n subsets (including the null set and S itself) of S.
(a) Show that
P{A B} =
Hint: Let N(B) denote the number of elements in B. Use
P{A B} =P{A (B|N(B) = i}P{N(B) = i}
Show that P{AB = 脴} =
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