Workbook #3

STAT 30100 Online

Instructions: Complete all the problems by yourself and go over with your Cyber mentor.

1. A(n) __________ is the most basic outcome of an experiment.

A) sample point

B) event

C) experiment D) sample space

2. A bag of colored candies contains 20 red, 25 yellow, and 35 orange candies. An experiment
consists of randomly choosing one candy from the bag and recording its color. What is the
sample space for this experiment?
A) {red, yellow, orange}

B) {20, 25, 35}

C) {1/4, 5/16, 7/16} D) {80}

3. Suppose a class has 30 juniors and 25 seniors, and a student is selected at random. What is the
probability that the randomly selected students is either a junior or a senior?

4. An experiment consists of randomly choosing a number between 1 and 10. Let E be the event
that the number chosen is even. List the sample points in E.

5. A package of self-sticking notepads contains 6 yellow, 6 blue, 6 green, and 6 pink notepads.
An experiment consists of randomly selecting one of the notepads and recording its color. Find
the sample space for the experiment.

6. Probabilities of different types of vehicle-to-vehicle accidents are shown below:

Find the probability that an accident involves a car.

7. At a small private college with 800 students, 240 students receive some form of government
sponsored financial aid. Find the probability that a randomly selected student receives some form
of government-sponsored financial aid.

8. The overnight shipping business has skyrocketed in the last ten years. The single greatest
predictor of a companys success is customer service. A study was conducted to determine the
customer satisfaction levels for one overnight shipping business. In addition to the customers
satisfaction level, the customers were asked how often they used overnight shipping. The results
are shown in the following table:

(a) Suppose that one customer who participated in the study is chosen at random. What is the
probability that the customer had a high level of satisfaction and used the company more
than five times per month?

(b) Suppose that one customer who participated in the study is chosen at random. What is the
probability that the customer did not have a medium level of satisfaction with the
company?

(c) A customer is chosen at random. Given that the customer uses the company two to five
times per month, what is the probability that the customer expressed medium satisfaction
with the company?

9.

55% of sampled executives had cheated at golf (event A). That is, P(A) = .55
20% of sampled executives had cheated at golf (event A) and lied in business (event B).
That is, P(A and B) = P(A B) = .20
What is the probability that an executive had lied in business, given s/he had cheated in golf,
P(B|A)?

10. In a school of 1200 students, 250 are seniors, 150 students take math, and 40 students are
seniors and are also taking math. Find the probability that a randomly selected student is taking
math, given that the student is a senior.

11. You draw two cards from a standard deck of 52 cards without replacing the first one before
you drawing the second. Find the probability that the first card is an ace and the second card is a
king.

12. You draw two cards from a standard deck of 52 cards, but before you draw the second card,
you put the first one back and reshuffle the deck. Find the probability that the first card is an ace
and the second card is a king.

13. Of the 10,000 students at a certain university, 7000 have Visa cards, 6000 have Master cards,
and 5000 have both. Suppose that a student is randomly selected.
a. What is the probability that the selected student has a Visa card (V)?

b. What is the probability that the selected student has both cards?

c. Suppose that you learn that the selected individual has a Visa card (was one of the 7000 with
such a card). Now what is the probability that this student has both cards?

d. Are the outcomes has a Visa card and has a Master card independent? Explain.

e. Answer the question posed in Part (d) if only 4200 of the students have both cards.

14. A study revealed that 45% of college freshmen are male and that 18% of male freshmen
earned college credits while still in high school. Find the probability that a randomly chosen
college freshman will be male and have earned college credits while still in high school.

15. In a box of 50 markers, 30 markers are either red or black, 20 are missing their caps, and 12
markers are either red or black and are missing their caps. Are the events red or black and
missing cap dependent or independent?

16. Two chips are drawn at random and without replacement from a bag containing two blue
chips and two red chips. Events A and B are defined as follows.
A: {Both chips are the same color}
B: {At least one of the chips is blue}
Are A and B independent events?