Problems 1-4 are worth 25 points each. Except for , part
b), you must show all your work to receive more than half credit.
The sets A and B are not disjoint and neither is a subset
of the other. .
Find the largest and smallest possible value of .
Find the largest and smallest possible value of .
[Hint: you may wish to use a Venn diagram; or the formula:
may be helpful.]
The twelve-member board of directors of a small company
appoints 3 of its members to a task force. You have two friends on
the board.
How many different task-forces are possible? (Order does
not matter.)
How many ways could the task force be chosen to include neither
of your friends?
Because of political disagreements which could not be settled by
reasonable discussion, the board finally decided to choose the task
force randomly from its membership. What is the probability that at
least one of your friends ends up on the task force?
Two fair dice are rolled, one red and one green.
Set up and describe explicitly the thirty-six element sample
space for this experiment.
Let A denote the event that at least one of the dice yields
an odd number; let B denote the event that both dice yields odd
numbers, and let D denote the event that one die yields an odd
number and the other an even number. State whether each of the following
is true or false:
Find the probability of each of the events from part b).
A series of games is played between two players. The champion,
A, must win two games to win the series. The challenger, B, must
win three games to win the series. How many sequences of outcomes of
games are possible? (Use a tree diagram.)
How many five-digit
numbers are there in which the only digits which appear are , and no digit appears more than twice?