DCOM Tutorial 1

Group 1
1. A bag contains 3 red, 6 white and 7 blue balls. What is the probability that two balls drawn are
white and blue ?
2. 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.

3. If I roll a fair die. Let A be the event that the outcome is an odd number, i.e., A={1,3,5}. Also let
B be the event that the outcome is less than or equal to 3, i.e., B={1,2,3}. What is the
probability of A, P(A)? What is the probability of A given B, P(A|B)?

4. I have three bags that each contain 100 marbles:

Bag 1 has 75 red and 25 blue marbles;
Bag 2 has 60 red and 40 blue marbles;
Bag 3 has 45 red and 55 blue marbles.
I choose one of the bags at random and then pick a marble from the chosen bag, also at
random. What is the probability that the chosen marble is red?

5. When two dice are rolled, find the probability of getting a greater number on the first die than
the one on the second, given that the sum should equal 8.

Group 2

1. Six cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that 3 will be red
and 3 black?
2. Three cards are drawn from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that they are a
king, a queen and a jack.
3. In a single throw of two dice, what is the probability that the sum is 9?
4. What is the chance that a leap year, selected at random, will contain 53
Sundays?
5. A company produces 1,000 refrigerators a week at three plants. Plant A produces 350
refrigerators a week, plant B produces 250 refrigerators a week, and plant C produces 400
refrigerators a week. Production records indicate that 5% of the refrigerators at plant A will be
defective, 3% of those produced at plant B will be defective, and 7% of those produced at plant
C will be defective. All refrigerators are shipped to a central warehouse. If a refrigerator at the
warehouse is found to be defective, what is the probability that it was produced a) at plant A? b)
at plant B? c) at plant C? We consider D as defective and D as non defective.

Group 3

1. In a single throw of two dice, find the probability of a total of 9 or 11

2. The probabilities that a student will receive an A, B , C or D grade are 0.30,0.35, 0.20 and 0.15
respectively. What is the probability that a student will receive at least a B grade ?

3. What is the probability of the occurrence of a number that is odd or less than 5 when a fair die
is rolled.
4. You toss a fair coin three times:
a. What is the probability of three heads, HHH?
b. What is the probability that you observe exactly one heads?
 c. Given that you have observed at least one heads, what is the probability that you observe at
least two heads?
5. An absence minded nurse is to give Mr. Brown a pill each day. The probability that the nurse
forgets to administer the pill is 2/3. If he receives the pill, the probability that Mr. Brown will die
is 1/3. If he does not get the pill, the probability that he will die is . Mr. Brown died. What is
the probability that the nurse forgot to give Mr. Brown the pill?

Group 4
1. 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 ?

2. Two balls are drawn at random with replacement from a bag containing 5blue and 10 red balls.
Find the probability that both the balls are either blue or red.
3. A company that specializes in language tutoring lists the following information concerning its
English-speaking employees: 23 speak German, 25 speak French, 31 speak Spanish, 43 speak
Spanish or French, 38 speak French or German, 46 speak German or Spanish, 8 speak Spanish,
French and German, and 7 office workers and secretaries speak English only. Make a Venn
Diagram and show all information in it. Find the following a) What percent of the employees
speak at least one language other than English? b) What percent of the employees speak at
least two languages other than English
4. If the letters of the word 'REGULATIONS' be arranged at random, what is the probability that
there will be exactly 4 letters between R and E?
5. Assume that a certain school contains equal number of female and male students. 5 % of the
male population is football players. Find the probability that a randomly selected student is a
football player male.

Group 5
1. Consider a family that has two children. We are interested in the children's genders. Our sample
space is S={(G,G),(G,B),(B,G),(B,B)}. Also assume that all four possible outcomes are equally
likely.

a. What is the probability that both children are girls given that the first child is a girl?
b. We ask the father: "Do you have at least one daughter?" He responds "Yes!" Given this extra
information, what is the probability that both children are girls? In other words, what is the
probability that both children are girls given that we know at least one of them is a girl?

2. In a factory there are 100 units of a certain product, 5 of which are defective. We pick three
units from the 100 units at random. What is the probability that none of them are defective?
3. In a class, 40% of the students study math and science. 60% of the students study math. What
is the probability of a student studying science given he/she is already studying math?

4. Find the chance of drawing 2 white balls in succession from a bag containing 5 red and 7 white
balls, the balls drawn not being replaced.
5. In an experiment with throwing 2 fair dice, consider the events
A : The sum of numbers on the faces is 8
B : Doubles are thrown.
What is the probability of getting A or B ?