Each problem counts 20 points. You must show all your work and
explain your reasoning to receive full credit.
Let S be a sample space and let A, B
be events in S with .
Compute
under each of the following
assumptions separately:
if A and B are disjoint
If A and
B are independent
If .
A fair die is rolled four times. A failure
is defined as rolling a five or six, any other outcome is a success.
Write down the probability of exactly k success for each
k value, k=0,1,2,3, and 4.
Simplify the probability of three successes and the probability of
four successes from part a) to fractions in lowest terms and show that
three is twice as likely as four.
An urn
contains five balls, 2 red and three green. Two of the five
are chosen randomly (without replacement) Find:
The probability that both balls are the same color.
The probability that at least one of the balls chosen is green.
Let X be a random variable which takes on the values 1,2,3, and
6 each with probability 1/4. Find:
The expected value of X
The expected value of X2
The variance of X.
A two-headed coin is in an urn with four fair coins, making five coins
in all. A coin is chosen randomly and tossed three times. Given that
all three tosses yielded heads, what is the conditional probability
that the two-headed coin was chosen?