Tue Hoang

Lauren Shareshian
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4 December 2013

Homework Pg 339, #13-43 odd
13. The family may own both a car and an SUV. The events are not disjoint, so the Addition
rule does not apply.

15. When cars are travelling close together, their speeds are not independent, so the
Multiplication rule does not apply.

17. a) He has multiplied the two probabilities.
b) The assumption he is making is that the probabilities he has been multiplying belong to
independent events.
c) No, because colleges use similar criteria for application requirements.

19. a) 0.72
b) 0.89
c) 0.28

21. a) 0.5184
b) 0.0784
c) 0.4816

23. a) Repair needs for the 2 cars are independent.
b) Maybe not. An owner may treat the two cars similarly, taking good or poor care of both
cars. This may decrease or increase the likelihood that each needs to be repaired.

25. a) .34
b) .08

27. a) .195
b) .913
c) Responses are independent.
d) People were polled at random.

29. a) .4712
b) .7112

31. a) .30, .30, .90, .0
b) .027, .0128, .512, .271

33. a) Disjoint (cant be both red and orange)
b) Independent (unless you are drawing from a small bag)
c) No. Once you know that one of a pair of disjoint events has occurred, the other is
impossible.

35. a) .0046
b) .125
c) .296
d) .421
e) .995

37. a) .027
b) .063
c) .973
d) .014

39. a) .024
b) .25
c) .543

41. .078

43. a) For any day with a valid three-digit date, the chance is 0.001 or 1 in 1000. For many
dates in October, November and December, the probability would be 0.
b) There are 65 days when the chance to match is 0.
c) .259
d) .049