MAA 161 STATISTICS FOR SCIENCES STUDENTS Solutions of Tutorial 4

1. a. S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} b. S = {HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT} c. S = {H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6} 2. Let Y = student selected suffered from math anxiety N = student selected does not suffer from math anxiety. The experiment of selecting two students has four outcomes: YY, YN, NY, and NN. Venn Diagram Tree Diagram S YY Y YY YN NY NN
Y N Y N N YN NY NN

3. P(preferred juice) = 4. P(neither air-conditioning nor CD) = 0.19

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5. a. P(all black cards) =

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P3 P3

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15600 2 26 25 24 or 132600 17 52 51 50

b. P(all spades) = c. P(all queens) =

P3 P3
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1716 11 132600 850

24 1 132600 5525

6. Let V = a person gets vaccinated NV = a person does not get vaccinated D = a person gets the disease ND = a person does not get the disease
D 0.25 V ND D NV 0.75 ND 0.1 0.9 0.5 0.5

P(D) = 0.25(0.1) + 0.75(0.5) = 0.4

7. a. i. P(in favour of cloning) = ii. P(against cloning) = iii. P(in favour of cloning | female) = iv. P(male | no opinion) = b. The events male and in favour are not mutually exclusive because the y can occur together. The events in favour and against are mutually exclusive because they cannot occur together. c. P(female) = 0.55 P(female | no opinion) = 6/11 Since this two probabilities are not equal, the events female and no opinion are not independent. 8. P(bus late | bad weather) = 9. Let A = the patient beings tested has the disease B = the test result is positive a. P(A B) = 0.03(0.87) = 0.0261 b. P( ) = 0.97(0.1) = 0.097 c. P(B) = P(A B) + P( ) = 0.1231 d. P(A|B) = = 10. 100! 11. (5)(3)(2) = 30 12. i. (26)(26)(26)(10)(10)(10)(10) = 175760000 ii. (26)(25)(24)(10)(9)(8)(7) = 78624000 iii. (26)(26)(26)(10)(9)(8)(7) = 88583040 iv. P = =
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