Saturday, May 8th, 2010 at 12:26 am
A person is playing a slot machine. He makes the comment “I have been playing this damn thing for over three hours and haven’t won yet! I will keep playing because I am bound to hit soon!” What’s wrong with what he said? Explain your answer using independent events and probability.
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 12:27 am
A printing company’s bookbinding machine has a probability of 0.005 of producing a defective book. If this machine is used to bind three books…
how do you find the probability that…
a.) none of the books are defective
b.) at least one of the book is defective
c.) all of the books are defective
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
This machine is used to bind three books.
A. Find the probability that none of the books is defective.
B. Find the probability that at least one is defective.
C. Find the probability that all of the books are defective