Chapter 5: Q 5.81. (page 216)
Let E be an event with probability 0.35. Find the probability of (not E)
As a result, has a value of
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In Exercises 5.16-5.26, express your probability answers as a decimal rounded to three places.
Housing Units. The U.S. Census Bureau publishes data on housing units in American Housing Survey for the United States. The following table provides a frequency distribution for the number of rooms in U.S. housing units. The frequencies are in thousands.
A housing unit is selected at random. Find the probability that the housing unit obtained has
(a) four rooms.
(b) more than four rooms.
(c) one or two rooms.
(d) fewer than one room.
(e) one or more rooms.
Determine.
Which of the following numbers could not possibly be a probability? Justify your answer.
Interpret each of the following probability statements, using the frequentist interpretation of probability.
(a) The probability of being dealt a pocket pair in Texas hold'em is 0.059.
(b). If a balanced dime is tossed three times, the probability that it will come up heads all three times is 0.125.
For each of the following probability histograms of binomial distributions, specify whether the success probability is less than, equal to, or greater than 0.5. Explain your answers.
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