Chapter 15: Q1P (page 749)
Three coins are tossed; x = number of heads minus number of tails.
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The required values are mentioned below.
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Chapter 15: Q1P (page 749)
Three coins are tossed; x = number of heads minus number of tails.
The required values are mentioned below.
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Given a family of two children (assume boys and girls equally likely, that is, probability for each), what is the probability 1/2 that both are boys? That at least one is a girl? Given that at least one is a girl, what is the probability that both are girls? Given that the first two are girls, what is the probability that an expected third child will be a boy?
Two dice are thrown. Use the sample space (2.4) to answer the following questions.
(a) What is the probability of being able to form a two-digit number greater than
33 with the two numbers on the dice? (Note that the sample point 1, 4 yields
the two-digit number 41 which is greater than 33, etc.)
(b) Repeat part (a) for the probability of being able to form a two-digit number
greater than or equal to 42.
(c) Can you find a two-digit number (or numbers) such that the probability of
being able to form a larger number is the same as the probability of being able
to form a smaller number? [See note part (a)]
(a) Three typed letters and their envelopes are piled on a desk. If someone puts theletters into the envelopes at random (one letter in each), what is theprobabilitythat each letter gets into its own envelope? Call the envelopes A, B, C, and thecorresponding letters a, b, c, and set up the sample space. Note that 鈥渁 in A,b in B, c in A鈥 is one point in the sample space.
(b) What is the probability that at least one letter gets into its own envelope?
Hint: What is the probability that no letter gets into its own envelope?
(c) Let A mean that a got into envelope A, and so on. Find the probability P(A)that a got into A. Find P(B) and P(C). Find the probability P(A + B)that either a or b or both got into their correct envelopes, and the probabilityP(AB) that both got into their correct envelopes. Verify equation (3.6).
(a) Repeat Problem where the 鈥渃ircular鈥 area is now on the curved surface of the earth, say all points at distance s from Chicago (measured along a great circle on the earth鈥檚 surface) with where R = radius of the earth. The seeds could be replaced by, say, radioactive fallout particles (assuming these to be uniformly distributed over the surface of the earth). Find and .
(b) Also find and if (say mile where miles). Do your answers then reduce to those in Problem ?
As in Problem , show that the expected number of in n tosses of a die is .
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