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Probability Examples

The document provides examples of probability problems involving situations like drawing marbles from jars, selecting people at random from groups with different characteristics, choosing balls from bags, times between events, and normally distributed data like test scores, replacement times, and family incomes. The problems cover concepts like finding probabilities of outcomes, being in percentiles, and determining what percentages of populations meet certain criteria.

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Probability Examples

The document provides examples of probability problems involving situations like drawing marbles from jars, selecting people at random from groups with different characteristics, choosing balls from bags, times between events, and normally distributed data like test scores, replacement times, and family incomes. The problems cover concepts like finding probabilities of outcomes, being in percentiles, and determining what percentages of populations meet certain criteria.

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Engineering Data Analysis

Examples
Probability
• A jar contains 3 red marbles, 7 green marbles
and 10 white marbles. If a marble is drawn
from the jar at random, what is the probability
that this marble is white?
Probability
• The blood groups of 200 people is distributed
as follows: 50 have type A blood, 65
have B blood type, 70 have O blood type and
15 have type ABblood. If a person from this
group is selected at random, what is the
probability that this person has O blood type?
Probability
• Three bags contain 3 red, 7 black; 8 red, 2
black, and 4 red & 6 black balls respectively. 1
of the bags is selected at random and a ball is
drawn from it. If the ball drawn is red, find the
probability that it is drawn from the third bag.
Probability
• A bag contains 3 red, 6 white and 7 blue balls.
What is the probability that two balls drawn
are white and blue ?
Probability
• Find the probability of getting both red balls,
when from a bag containing 5 red and 4 black
balls, two balls are drawn,
• (i) with replacement.
• (ii) without replacement
Probability
• Four persons are chosen at random from a
group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children.
What is the chance that exactly two will be
children?
Probability
• Four persons are chosen at random from a
group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children.
What is the chance that exactly two will be
children?
Probability
• An urn contains 8 white balls and 2 green
balls. A sample of three balls is selected at
random. What is the probability that the
sample contains at least one green ball ?
Probability
Probability
Probability
• In a store, out of all the people who came
there thirty percent bought a shirt. If four
people came in the store together then find
the probability of one of them buying a shirt.
Probability
• In a hospital sixty percent of patients are dying
of a disease. If on a certain day, eight patients
got admitted in the hospital for that disease
what are the chances of three to survive?
Probability
• A life insurance salesman sells on the
average 3 life insurance policies per week. Use
Poisson's law to calculate the probability that in a
given week he will sell
• Some policies
• 2 or more policies but less than 5 policies.
• Assuming that there are 5 working days per
week, what is the probability that in a given day
he will sell one policy?
Probability
• If electricity power failures occur according to
a Poisson distribution with an average
of 3 failures every twenty weeks, calculate the
probability that there will not be more than
one failure during a particular week.
Probability
• The time intervals between successive barges
passing a certain point on a busy waterway have
an exponential distribution with mean 8 minutes.
• (a) Find the probability that the time interval
between two successive barges is less than 5
minutes.
• (b) Find a time interval t such that we can be 95%
sure that the time interval between two
successive barges will be greater than t.
Probability
• Replacement times for CD players are
normally distributed with a mean of 7.1 years
and a standard deviation of 1.4 years (data
from Consumer Reports). What is the
probability that a randomly-selected CD player
will have to be replaced in 8 years or less?
Probability
• A student gets a 70 on a test where the mean
score was 64. What does the standard
deviation have to be in order for the student
to be in the 95th percentile?
Probability
• On a standardized test, scores are normally
distributed with a mean of 400 and a standard
deviation of 80. What score must one have to
be in the 80th percentile?
Probability
• Family income ~ N($25000, $100002 ). If the
poverty level is $10,000, what percentage of
the population lives in poverty?
Probability
• A new tax law is expected to benefit “middle
income” families, those with incomes
between $20,000 and $30,000. If Family
income ~ N($25000, $100002 ), what
percentage of the population will benefit from
the law?

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