Chapter 15: Q3P (page 749)
A coin is tossed repeatedly; x = number of the toss at which a head first appears.
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The required values are mentioned below.
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Chapter 15: Q3P (page 749)
A coin is tossed repeatedly; x = number of the toss at which a head first appears.
The required values are mentioned below.
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You are trying to find instrument A in a laboratory. Unfortunately, someone has put both instruments A and another kind (which we shall call B) away in identical unmarked boxes mixed at random on a shelf. You know that the laboratory has 3 A’s and 7 B’s. If you take down one box, what is the probability that you get an A? If it is a B and you put it on the table and take down another box, what is the probability that you get an A this time?
Five cards are dealt from a shuffled deck. What is the probability that they are all of the same suit? That they are all diamond? That they are all face cards? That the five cards are a sequence in the same suit (for example, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of hearts)?
A card is selected from a shuffled deck. What is the probability that it is either a king or a club? That it is both a king and a club?
(a) Find the probability density function for the position x of a particle which is executing simple harmonic motion on along the x axis. (See Chapter , Section , for a discussion of simple harmonic motion.) Hint: The value of x at time t is . Find the velocity ; then the probability of finding the particle in a given is proportional to the time it spends there which is inversely proportional to its speed there. Don’t forget that the total probability of finding the particle somewhere must be .
(b) Sketch the probability density function found in part (a) and also the cumulative distribution function [see equation ].
(c) Find the average and the standard deviation of x in part (a).
Two dice are thrown. Given the information that the number on the first die iseven, and the number on the second is , set up an appropriate sample space andanswer the following questions.
(a) What are the possible sums and their probabilities?
(b) What is the most probable sum?
(c) What is the probability that the sum is even?
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