Answer the following questions: (a) What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice and obtaining a total score of 9 or more?  (b) What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice and obtaining a total score of 7?

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Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability
Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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Answer the following questions:
(a) What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice and obtaining a total score of 9 or more? 
(b) What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice and obtaining a total score of 7?
(c) A card is drawn at random from a deck. (i) What is the probability that it is an ace or a king? (ii) What is the probability that it is either a red card or a black card? 
(d) The composer Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos (music for piano and orchestra), and 32 piano sonatas (music for solo piano). How many ways are there to play first a Beethoven symphony and then a Beethoven piano concerto?
(e) The accompanying table gives information on the type of coffee selected by someone purchasing a single cup at a particular airport kiosk. Consider randomly selecting such a coffee purchaser. What is the probability that the individual purchased a small cup? A cup of decaf coffee?
                      Small     Medium      Large
Regular          14%          20%           26%
Decaf             20%          10%           10%

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