Math 230 |
Test II |
Spring 2000 |
Bellamy & Williford |
Each problem counts 20 points except for problem 3 as noted.
- A fair die is rolled once. Let X = the number
obtained on the die, and let Y = 1/X.
- Write down the probability density function for each of X and Y.
- Compute the expected value of each of X and Y. (Fraction, no decimals, but you need not do the arithmetic.)
- Which is larger, E(Y) or 1/(E(X)) ?
- The sample space S contains events E and F. Pr(E) = 7/16;
Pr(F) = 3/8,
and Pr(E |F) = 1/6. Give the following answers as fractions in lowest terms.
- Compute Pr(E
F).
- Compute Pr(E
F).
- Compute Pr(F|E ).
- Compute Pr( E
F | E
F).
- An urn contains two fair coins and one two-headed coin. A coin is chosen randomly and tossed.
- What is the probability that the toss results in a head?
- If the coin is tossed a second time, find the conditional probability
that the second toss is heads given that the first one was.
- A club has fourteen members. Six of the members are M.D.'s and four are professional golfers. (No one is both!)
A meeting-site committee of three is chosen randomly every month.
- Find the probability that the January 2001 committee is all M.D.'s.
- Find the probability that the March 2003 committee has no M.D.'s and no pro golfers on it.
- Find the probability that at most one committee member for May 2000 is neither an M.D. nor a pro golfer.
- A sample space S contains two events, A and B with Pr(A)=1/3 and Pr(B) = 1/4.
Compute Pr(A
B) and Pr(A
B) under each of the following scenarios, or side conditions.
- B
A
- A and B are disjoint.
- A and B are independent.
- Pr(A|B) = 1/8.
