STATS 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mutual Exclusivity, Sample Space
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Chapter 7: exercises 14, 18, 22, 24, 26, 32, 34, 35, 36, and 38; Six dots: 1/6: one or two dots: 2/6, an even number of dots: 3/6 or 1/2. In the long run, a player should win about 1 out of. But that does not mean that a player will win exactly once in every thousand plays. {1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days: {1 day, 2 days, {0 days} Independent events: yes, because two events are independent of each other if knowing that one will occur does not change the probability that the other occurs. A penny and a nickel are different coins so their probabilities do not affect each others: complementary events: no, because the two outcomes are not opposites. The penny and nickel coin toss outcomes don"t complement each other. Approximate prob. pick number 3: 0. 116: approximate prob. pick number 1 or 10: 0. 042, approximate prob. pick number odd number: 0. 589.
