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1) If the odds in favor of an event A are 3 to 1, what is the probability associated with event A occurring?
A) B) C) 4 D)
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KEL
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Between 11 P.M. and midnight on Thursday night, Mystery Pizza gets an average of 4.2 telephone orders per hour.
Find the
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mnmn
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I do not know how to figure out his next shot. A basketball player has made 34 of her last 42 freethrow
attempts. What
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bwb
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slot machines are now video games, with outcomes determined by random number generations. in the old days, slot machines were
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steven
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The odds in favor of snow today are 4:1. The probability it will snow today is?
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Andrey L
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A card is chosen at a ramdom from a deck of 52 cards.It is then replaced and a second card is chosen.What is the probability of
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Jocelyn
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If you pick a card at random from a well shuffled deck, what is the probability that you get a face card or a spade?
a) 3/26 is
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David
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A sign on the gas pumps of a chain of gasoline stations encourages customers to have their oil checked, claiming that one out of
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April
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Suppose you have a wallet with $5 bills, $10 bills, and $20 bills. If the probability of picking a $20 bill is 4/15, and the
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help
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A student takes a true-false test exam with 10 questions. If the student guesses all ten questions, find the probability he gets
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Chris
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The table below shows the number of marbles of different colors in a box. A fair coin is shown below the table.
Color of Marble
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Cheyenne
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A lottery game has balls numbered 1 through 21. What is the probability of selecting an even numbered ball or a 9?
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1. Express the indicated degree of likelihood as a probability value.
"There is a 40% chance of rain." 2. Find the indicated
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george
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In exercises 1 and 2, use the following information. You randomly draw letter tiles from a bag containing the letters from the
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Sabina
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In Exercises 16–18, use the following information. At a college, 43% of the students are women, 15% of the students are art
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Kms
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A store has found that 60% of their customers spend more than $75 each visit. What is the probability that the next two
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Meredith
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the odds in favor winning a particular lottery are 1 to 2,400,000. find the probability of winning
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math enhancement
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What is the greatest possible probability in any experiment?
ANSWER: B Emily is a very good student. She is more likely to attend
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Math Quizzes (The Right Answers)
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1. A die labelled A has one face marked 1, one face marked 2 and the other four faces marked 3. A die labelled B has four faces
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Anonymous
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4 calculators were selected at random from a sample of 44 calculators that were defective and 22 that were in good condition.
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I love math & science !
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As a marketing promotion a company is going to give the first 200 customers a coupon for a discount when they enter the store.
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anne
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A survey among US adults of their favorite toppings on a cheese pizza reported that 43% favored pepperoni, 14% favored
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Anonymous
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Assume that about 45% of all U.S. adults try to pad their insurance claims. Suppose that you are the director of an insurance
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stan
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Suppose X ~ N(8.5, 2.5) and P(x >11)=.13
What is the probability P(8.5, x, 11)
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A jewelry store has 20 pins for sale and 38 other pieces of jewelry.
What is the probability that a randomly selected piece of
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savanna
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Calculate P (A or B) in the following scenarios: b. P(A)=0.21, P(B) = 0.15, P(A and B)=0.03 P (A or B)=
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Mike was voted Most Valuable Player for 2 out of 5 seasons. What is the probability that Mike will be Most Valuable Player this
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Tina
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Assume that about 45% of all U.S. adults try to pad their insurance claims. Suppose that you are the director of an insurance
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Jacob
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Assure that a procedure yields abinomial
distribution with a trial repeated n times. Use abinomial probabilities table to find
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angela
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5. There was a drawing for a prize at the Columbus Day celebration downtown. The prize was a scale model of the Santa Maria
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Sue
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In a moth population, 42 are brown, 20 are yellow, and 54 are black. What is the approximate probability of a moth being black?
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lll
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A target is made of a blue square inside of a red square. The blue square has an area of 64 square units, and the red square has
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Tanyashand
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Q and R are mutually exclusive events. If P(Q) = 0.1 and P(R) = 0.45, find P(Q or R).
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sheep
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In a moth population, 47 are brown, 15 are yellow, and 34 are black. What is the approximate probability of a moth being black?
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You have 12 pennies in your pocket. Of those pennies, 3 are Canadian. Suppose you pick a penny out of your pocket at random.
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In a randomly generated list of numbers from 0 to 8, what is the probability that 1/7 will occur
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In a moth population, 47 are brown, 15 are yellow, and 34 are black. What is the approximate probability of a moth being black?
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Strawberry Cow
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If a dart hits the target at random, what is the probability that it will land in the shaded region? (1 point) Responses Image
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Katana Wirehouse
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If a person chooses a number at random from the set below, what is the probability that the number is less than 0.005? Explain
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A balanced coin is tossed 3 times. Let A = {a head is obtained} and B = {a tail is obtained}. Calculate the probability to get
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John has three chances of throwing and hitting the target to win the prize. One hit wins John the prize. What is the probability
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In a jar of marbles, there are 8 red, 5 blue, and 3 green marbles. If a marble is randomly selected from the jar, what is the
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A_<3
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According to one study, 61% of the population swallow at least one spider per year in their sleep.
Based on this study, what is
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J
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Tiffany has white and black shoes in her shoe box. The probability of her pulling out a white pair of shoes is 25 . What is the
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Bob’s going to spinner with six equal sections, 150 times and recorded the results. What is the experimental probability of
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A student has a bag of marbles.There are 5 pink 7 red 12 green 2 blue 4 black marbles in the bag.Calculate thee thee veretical
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..l
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The letter tiles C , A , R , E , and S are placed in a box. Without looking, Jorelle picks a letter tile from the box and
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shadow's cooking show
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The sample space of an experiment is S={a, b, c, d, e, f} . What is the probability of picking a consonant? Write your answer in
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Letter tiles H, O, N, E, S, T are shuffled and placed in a box. A letter is selected at random. What is the probability of
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Mona is given the model N(1400,200)
for a set of 50 data and wants to make some predictions. About how many data points should
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Anonymous
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Parent Categories (25)
Basic Probability
Binomial distribution
Binomial Model
Central Limit Theorem
Coin and Marble Selection
Conditional probability
Consumer Preferences
Dependent and Independent Events
Drawings/Prizes
Events and Probabilities
Experimental Probability
Exponential Distribution
Independent and dependent events
Independent Events
Marble selection
Mutually Exclusive and Inclusive Events
Mutually Exclusive Events
Normal Distribution
Poisson process
Probability
Probability and Statistics
Probability of Events
Theoretical Probability
Tree Diagram
Uniform Distribution