5.54 Monkeys typing Shakespeare Since events of low prob- ability eventually happen if you observe enough trials, a monkey randomly pecking ally write a Shakespeare play just by chance. Let's see how hard it would be to type the title of Macbeth properly. Assume 50 keys for letters and numbers and punctuation. Find the probability that the first seven letters that a monkey types are macbeth. (Even if the monkey can type 60 strokes a minute and never sleeps, if we consider each sequence of seven keystrokes as a trial, we would wait on the average over 100,000 years before seeing this happen!) typewriter could eventu- on a

5.54 Monkeys typing Shakespeare Since events of low prob- ability eventually happen if you observe enough trials, a monkey randomly pecking ally write a Shakespeare play just by chance. Let's see how hard it would be to type the title of Macbeth properly. Assume 50 keys for letters and numbers and punctuation. Find the probability that the first seven letters that a monkey types are macbeth. (Even if the monkey can type 60 strokes a minute and never sleeps, if we consider each sequence of seven keystrokes as a trial, we would wait on the average over 100,000 years before seeing this happen!) typewriter could eventu- on a

College Algebra

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337282291

Author:Ron Larson

Publisher:Ron Larson

Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability

Section8.7: Probability

Problem 11ECP: A manufacturer has determined that a machine averages one faulty unit for every 500 it produces....

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