
Wk 7: Mutually Exclusive Events
Quiz by Christlie Rose Nicolas
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In a survey, 8% of the respondents said that their favorite ice cream flavor is cookies and cream, and 6% like mint chocolate chip. If a person is selected at random, find the probability that his or her favorite ice cream flavor is either cookies and cream or mint chocolate chip?
One card is selected from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability that the card is either a spade or a face card?
Willy has a stack of 8 baseball cards, 5 basketball cards, and 6soccer cards. If he selects a card at random from the stack, what is the probability that it is a baseball or a basketball card?
There are 7 girls and 6 boys on the senior class home coming committee. A subcommittee of 4 people is being chosen at random to decide the theme for the class float. What is the probability that the subcommittee will have at least 2 boys?
On Christmas Eve, the probability of a person driving while intoxicated is 0.35, the probability of a person having a driving accident is 0.1, and the probability of a person having a driving accident while intoxicated is 0.07. What is the probability of a person driving while intoxicated or having a driving accident?
What do you call a collection of experiment outcomes?
0 events cannot occur at the same time?
In probability language, what is the process that produces outcomes?
What do you call the collection of possible experimental outcomes?
What do you call that the chance of a particular evet will occur?