MATH108- 03 Exam II

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1) On a multiple choice test with four possible answers for each question. There are 5 questions. Since you didn't study for the test, you have to randomly guess answers.
(a) What is the probability of answering all five questions correctly ?

(b) What is the probability of answering at least one questions correctly ?

2) On the front of a rottery ticket, it says "one winning ticket for every five". What is the odd against winning.

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3) The odd in favor of Chicago Cubs winning the World Series is 3 : 233. What is the probability that Cubs win the World Series.

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4) Suppose you are playing a game of chance. If you bet $7 on a certain event, you will collect $280 (including your $7 bet) if you win. Find the odds used for determining the payoff.

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5) The table below describes the smoking habits of a group of asthma sufferers. Occasional Regular Heavy Nonsmoker smoker smoker smoker Total Men 433 42 71 37 583 Women 326 47 78 39 490 Total 759 89 149 76 1073 If one of the 1073 people is randomly selected, find the probability that the person is a man or a heavy smoker. 6) Consider the data table in problem (5). If one person is randomly selected, find the probability the person is a nonsmoker given that it is a woman.

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7) For the data table in problem (5), are the smoking habits and gender independent? Show your work.

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8) The library is to be given 3 books as a gift. The books will be selected from a list of 18 titles. If each book selected must have a different title, how many possible selections are there?

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9) There are 7 members on a board of directors. If they must elect a chairperson, a secretary, and a treasurer, how many different slates of candidates are possible?

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10) How many different words can be formed using all the letters of the ten-letter word STATISTICS

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11) A police department reports that the probabilities that 0, 1, 2, and 3 burglaries will be reported in a given day are 0.50, 0.38 , 0.11, and 0.01, respectively. Find the mean value.

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12) The number of golf balls ordered by customers of a pro shop has the following probability distribution. Find the standard deviation of the number of balls ordered. x 3 6 9 12 15 p(x) 0.14 0.11 0.36 0.29 0.10

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13) In a game, you have a 1/42 probability of winning $67 and a 41/42 probability of losing $7. What is your expected value?

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14) Use the binomial formula to find the probability of the given successes. 1 n = 10, x = 2, p = 3

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15) In a certain college, 33% of the physics majors belong to ethnic minorities. If 10 students are selected at random from the physics majors,
(a) what is the probability that exactly 6 belong to an ethnic minority?

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(b) what is the probability that at least 2 belongs to an ethnic minority?

16) Find the mean and standard deviation for the binomial distributionwith given n and p. n = 20; p = 3/5

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17) The probability that a person has immunity to a particular disease is 0.8. Consider a samples of size 25. Find the maximum and minimum usual values.

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18) According to AccuData Media Research, 36% of televisions within the Chicago city limits are tuned to "Eyewitness News" at 5:00 pm on Sunday nights. At 5:00 pm on a given Sunday, 2500 such televisions are randomly selected and checked to determine what is being watched.
(a) Find the mean and the standard deviation of the number of televisions tuned to "Eyewitness News".

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(b) Would it be unusual to find that 872 of the 2500 televisions are tuned to "Eyewitness News"?