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Look in the book to find a statement of each of these properties.
These problems are designed to stimulate your thinking about real world events. You are not expected to calculate these probabilities, but rather to estimate, or even guess, the most appropriate answer.
Use the property of complements as shown in Example 1.
Use the property of complements as shown in Example 1.
Use the fundamental counting principle to determine the number of possibilities and then use the property of complements as shown in Example 2.
For odds in favor use success to failure and for odds against use failure to success, as shown in Example 3.
You are given the probability and need to find the odds. See Example 5.
You are given the odds and need to find the probability. See Example 6.
You known the odds and want to find the probability. See Example 7.
List the sample space and answer the questions. Also see Example 2.
For part a, use the fundamental counting principle and the definition of probability. For part b, remember that finding the probability of any event does not “remember” the results of previous events.
These are conditional probabilities, so first find the number of possibilities by looking at the altered sample space. For Problem 31, P(face card) has s = 12 since there are four jacks, four queens, and four kings. Also, n = 52 since there are 52 cards. However, for P(face card | jack) alters the sample space to include only the four jacks. For this conditional probability, s = 4 and n = 4. See Example 8.
This is a conditional probability, so you should work with the altered sample space, as shown in Example 10.
In Problem 43, use the fundamental counting principle to find s and n.
For n, 10*26*26*26*10*10*10.
For s, use 10*26*25*24*10*10*10.
Find the appropriate probabilities and conditional probabilities. See Example 9.
These are conditional probabilities. See Example 9.