Then, answer the questions specific to each individual problem.
Six different colored dice are rolled. Of interest is the number of dice that show a “1.”
On average, how many dice would you expect to show a “1”?
Find the probability that all six dice show a “1.”
Is it more likely that 3 or that 4 dice will show a “1”? Use numbers to justify your answer numerically.
= the number of dice that show a 1
0,1,2,3,4,5,6
~
1
0.00002
3 dice
According to a 2003 publication by Waits and Lewis
(source:http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003017.pdf), by the end of 2002, 92% of U.S. public two-year colleges offered distance learning courses. Suppose you randomly pick 13 U.S. public two-year colleges. We are interested in the number that offer distance learning courses.
On average, how many schools would you expect to offer such courses?
Find the probability that at most 6 offer such courses.
Is it more likely that 0 or that 13 will offer such courses? Use numbers to justify your answer numerically and answer in a complete sentence.
A school newspaper reporter decides to randomly survey 12 students to see if they will attend Tet festivities this year. Based on past years, she knows that 18% of students attend Tet festivities. We are interested in the number of students who will attend the festivities.
How many of the 12 students do we expect to attend the festivities?
Find the probability that at most 4 students will attend.
Find the probability that more than 2 students will attend.
= the number of students that will attend Tet.
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
~
2.16
0.9511
0.3702
Suppose that about 85% of graduating students attend their graduation. A group of 22 graduating students is randomly chosen.
How many are expected to attend their graduation?
Find the probability that 17 or 18 attend.
Based on numerical values, would you be surprised if all 22 attended graduation? Justify your answer numerically.
At The Fencing Center, 60% of the fencers use the foil as their main weapon. We randomly survey 25 fencers at The Fencing Center. We are interested in the numbers that do
not use the foil as their main weapon.
How many are expected to
not use the foil as their main weapon?
Find the probability that six do
not use the foil as their main weapon.
Based on numerical values, would you be surprised if all 25 did
not use foil as their main weapon? Justify your answer numerically.
= the number of fencers that do
not use foil as their main weapon
0, 1, 2, 3,... 25
~
10
0.0442
Yes
Approximately 8% of students at a local high school participate in after-school sports all four years of high school. A group of 60 seniors is randomly chosen. Of interest is the number that participated in after-school sports all four years of high school.
How many seniors are expected to have participated in after-school sports all four years of high school?
Based on numerical values, would you be surprised if none of the seniors participated in after-school sports all four years of high school? Justify your answer numerically.
Based upon numerical values, is it more likely that 4 or that 5 of the seniors participated in after-school sports all four years of high school? Justify your answer numerically.
Try these multiple choice problems.
For the next three problems : The probability that the San Jose Sharks will win any given game is 0.3694 based on their 13 year win history of 382 wins out of 1034 games played (as of a certain date). Their 2005 schedule for November contains 12 games. Let
= number of games won in November 2005
The expected number of wins for the month of November 2005 is:
1.67
12
4.43
D: 4.43
What is the probability that the San Jose Sharks win 6 games in November?
0.1476
0.2336
0.7664
0.8903
A: 0.1476
Find the probability that the San Jose Sharks win at least 5 games in November.
