Exercise 1

• The probability that a person in a town

having car is 1/5. A random sample of 5 is
chosen. What is the probability that 1)none
has car 2)at least four of them car
Exercise 2

• Find the probability that in a a family of 4

children there will be a) at least 1 boy and
1 girl b) at least 1 boy. Assume that the
probability of boy/girl birth is ½.
– Out of 2000 families with 4 children
each, how many would you expect to
have a) at least 1 boy, b) 2 boys, c)1 or
2 girls.
Exercise 3
• Harry is in charge of the electronics section
of a large department store. He has noticed
that the probability that a customer who is
just browsing will buy something is 0.3.
Suppose 15 customers browse in the
electronics section each hour.
– What is the probability that at least one browsing
customer will buy something during a specified hour?
– What is the probability that at least four browsing
customers will buy something during a specified hour?
– What is the probability that no browsing customers will
buy anything during a specified hour?
– What is the probability that no more than four browsing
customers will buy something during a specified hour?
Example 4

• Five workers are in a pharmacy. The

owner has studied situation over a period
of time and has determined that there is
0.4 chance of any one employee being
late and that they arrive independently of
one another. How would we draw a
binomial probability distribution showing
the probabilities of 0,1,2,3,4 or 5 workers
being late simultaneously?
Example 4

• Suppose that we are investigating the

safety of a dangerous intersection. Past
police records indicate a mean of five
accidents per month at this intersection.
Highway Safety Division wants us to
calculate the probability in any month of
exactly 0,1,2,3 or 4 accidents.
Example 5
• The U.S Bureau of Printing and Engraving
is responsible for printing the country’s
paper money. The BPE has an
impressively small frequency of printing
errors. Only 0.5 percent of all bills are too
flawed for circulation. What is the
probability that out of a batch of 1,000 bills
– None are too flawed for circulation?
– Ten are too flawed for circulation?
– Fifteen are too flawed for circulation?