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Chapter 5: Q 68. (page 332)
Teachers and college degrees Select an adult at random. Define events D: person has earned a college degree, and T: person鈥檚 career is teaching. Rank the following probabilities from smallest to largest. Justify your answer.
The order is
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Middle school values Researchers carried out a survey of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students in Michigan. Students were asked whether good grades, athletic ability, or being popular was most important to them. The two-way table summarizes the survey data. 
Suppose we select one of these students at random. What鈥檚 the probability of each of the following?
a. The student is a sixth-grader or rated good grades as important.
b. The student is not a sixth-grader and did not rate good grades as important.
Due to a hit A very good professional baseball player gets a hit about of the time
over an entire season. After the player failed to hit safely in six straight at-bats, a TV
As one commentator said, 鈥淗e is due for a hit.鈥� Explain why the commentator is wrong.
The partially complete table that follows shows the distribution of scores on the AP庐
Statistics exam for a class of students.
Select a student from this class at random. If the student earned a score of 3 or higher
on the AP庐 Statistics exam, what is the probability that the student scored a 5?
Body image A random sample of U.S. college students was asked, 鈥淲hat is your perception of your own body? Do you feel that you are overweight, underweight, or about right?鈥� The two-way table below summarizes the data on perceived body image by gender.
Suppose we randomly select one of the survey respondents.
a. Given that the person perceived his or her body image as about right, what鈥檚 the
probability that the person is female?
b. If the person selected is female, what鈥檚 the probability that she did not perceive her body image as overweight?
Colorful disksA jar contains disks: each of four colors鈥攔ed, green, blue, and Page Number: yellow. Each set of disks of the same color is numbered from to . Suppose you draw one disk at random from the jar. Define events : get a red disk, and : get a disk with the number .
a. Make a two-way table that describes the sample space in terms of events and .
b. Find and .
c. Describe the event 鈥�and 鈥� in words. Then find the probability of this event.
d. Explain why Then use the general addition rule to compute
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