Homework Help: statistics

Posted by Jordan on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 6:57pm.

Event Probability
Too much enamel 0.25
Too little enamel 0.2
Uneven application 0.35
No defects noted 0.42

(1) What is the probability of a paint defect?

What is the probability of a paint defect which includes an improper amount of paint?

statistics - bobpursley, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 7:25pm
Because the probabilities add to greater than 1.0, some of them must be joint events (too much enamel and uneven, for instance)

Prob (paint defect)=1-Pr(nodefects)=.58

Pr(improper)=.45/.58

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