Questions on Probability

1.) According to Lao-tzu, what must the ruler provide the people with if they are to be happy?

The sample size is based on the 20 day sample. The probability of the event (.03765) was determined in Question #2, the cumulative probability of Four-D rejecting a shipment (based on a sample of 10).

There are 4 queens in the pack of cards and we assume the event A as the

Find P(12 < x < 23) when mu = 19 and sigma = 6. Write your steps in probability notation.

42.a) ii): equal to about half. There are 26 red cards out of a deck of 52 playing cards. Therefor the theoretical chance of drawing a red card is .

1. Beverly Frost bought a home for $190,000 with a down payment of $19,000 at 7% for 25 years. Since then the rate has risen to 9%. How much more would her monthly payment be if she bought the house at 9%?

According to the website http://womenissues.about.com/cs/abortionstats/a/aaabortionstats.htm there are approximately 126,000 abortions conducted each day throughout the world. This website includes the abortion statistics of the world and breaks the data down to the demographics of the United States. It also discusses the decisions to have an abortion and the use of contraceptives in the United States. This was an informative website and included detailed statistics conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. According to the website http://www.bls.gov/cps in 2000, gon average there were roughly 135 million employed and 6 million unemployed people in the labor force in the United States.h (p. 3) The websites definition of

E[RB ] = 0.3 × 0.14 + 0.4 × (−0.04) + 0.3 × 0.08 = 0.05 = 5%.

3. List the probability value for each possibility in the binomial experiment that was calculated in MINITAB with the probability of a success being ½. (Complete sentence not necessary)

There are 2 baskets. 1 basket has 1 white ball; 2 green balls; and 2 red balls. The other basket has 3 yellow balls; 1 blue ball; 1 green ball; and 1 brown ball. You pick 1 ball from the first basket and 1 ball from the other basket. What is the probability

Suppose that for a certain football game the probability that the home team will be

If the equipment was technically complex, it would require a trained sales person to sell the equipment and explain its complexity to the buyers, also if the unit cost was high, it would require multiple visits to the buyer to seal the deal. Also, the size of the company would dictate whether it could afford its own sales force or would have to train and transfer the selling responsibility to various agents in different geographical areas.

9. Flip a coin 25 times and keep track of the results. What is the experimental probability of landing on tails? What is the theoretical probability of landing on heads or tails?

28. The Polo Development Firm is building a shopping center. It has informed renters that their rental spaces will be ready for occupancy in 19 months.  If the expected time until the shopping center is completed is estimated to be 14 months, with a standard deviation of 4 months, what is the probability that the renters will not be able to occupy in 19 months?

b. What is the probability of failing on the first 2 trials and passing on the third? c. What is the probability of failing on all 3 attempts? 9.