Chapter 15: Q11P (page 728)
Set up several non-uniform sample spaces for the problem of three tosses of a coin
Short Answer
The non-uniform sample space are and ,
Chapter 15: Q11P (page 728)
Set up several non-uniform sample spaces for the problem of three tosses of a coin
The non-uniform sample space are and ,
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Find the mean value and the probable error ofand.
Use the sample space of Example 1 above, or one or more of your sample spaces in Problem 11, to answer the following questions.
(a) If there were more heads than tails, what is the probability of one tail?
(b) If two heads did not appear in succession, what is the probability of all tails?
(c) If the coins did not all fall alike, what is the probability that two in succession
were alike?
(d) If and , what is the probability
That ?
(e) If there was at least one head, what is the probability of exactly two heads?
(a) There are 10 chairs in a row and 8 people to be seated. In how many ways can this be done?
(b) There are 10 questions on a test and you are to do 8 of them. In how many
Ways can you choose them?
(c) In part (a) what is the probability that the first two chairs in the row are vacant?
(d) In part (b), what is the probability that you omit the first two problems in the
test?
(e) Explain why the answer to parts (a) and (b) are different, but the answers to
(c) and (d) are the same.
Prove (3.1) for a nonuniform sample space. Hints: Remember that the probability of an event is the sum of the probabilities of the sample points favorable to it. Using Figure 3.1, let the points in A but not in AB have probabilities p1, p2, ... pn, the points in have probabilities pn+1, pn+2, .... + pn+k, and the points in B but not in AB have probabilities pn+k+1, pn+k+2, ....pn+k+l. Find each of the probabilities in (3.1) in terms of the ’s and show that you then have an identity.
A basketball player succeeds in making a basket 3 tries out of 4. How many tries arenecessary in order to have probability of at least one basket?
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