Special Discrete Probability

Distribution
A. A safety engineer claims that only 40% of all workers
wear safety helmets when they eat lunch at the
workplace. Assuming that his claim is right, find the
probability that 4 of 6 workers randomly chosen will be
wearing their helmets while having lunch at the
workplace.

B. A card is drawn from a deck of cards, the result

recorded, and the card replaced. If the experiment is
repeated 5 times, what is the probability of obtaining
2spades and 1 heart?
C. The probabilities are .40, .20, .30 and .10 respectively,
that a delegate to a certain seminar arrived by air, bus,
automobile or train. What is the probability that among
9 delegates randomly selected at this seminar, 3
arrived by air, 3 by bus,1 by automobile and 2 arrived
by train.

D. box contains 5 red and 10 white marbles. If 8 marbles

are to be chosen at random without replacement.
Determine the probability that
a). 4 will be red
b). All will be white
E. The ABC company manufactures toy robots. About 1
toy robot per 100 does not work. You purchase 35
ABC toy robots. What is the probability that exactly 4
do not work

F. Births in a hospital occur randomly at an average rate

of 1.8 births per hour. What is the probability of
observing 4 births in a given hour at the hospital?

b. What about the probability of observing more than or

equal to 2 births in a given hour at the hospital?
G. In an NBA championship series, the team which
wins four games out of seven will be the winner.
Suppose that team A has probability 0.55 of winning
over the team B and both teams A and B face each
other in the championship games.

a. What is the probability that team A will win the series

in six games?

b. What is the probability that team A will win the

series?

c. If both teams face each other in a regional playoff

series and the winner is decided by winning three out of
five games, what is the probability that team A will win
the playoff?
H.  What is the probability that a waitress will refuse to
serve alcoholic beverages to only 2 minors if she
randomly checks the id’s of 6 students from among 9
student of which 4 are not at legal age?

I. A card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of cards, the

result recorded and the card replaced. If the experiment
is repeated 5 times, what is the probability of obtaining
2 spades and 1 heart?
J. Vehicles pass through a junction on a busy road at
an average rate of 300 per hour.

a) Find the probability that none passes in a given

minute.
b) What is the expected number passing in two
minutes?