AMS 310

Winter 2016
Homework #2

1. Pick a card from a full deck of 52. Let be the event that a card drawn at random from the
deck is a spade, and let be the event that the card is a picture card (J, Q or K). Find the
following events:
(a)
(b)
2. Among a group of 100 people, 68 can speak English, 45 can speak French and 42 can speak
German, 27 can speak both English and French, 25 can speak both English and German, 16 can
speak both French and German, and 9 can speak all three languages. Pick a person at random
from this group. What is the probability that this person can speak at least one of these
languages?
3. Answer the following questions.
(a) Four people are chosen from a 25 member club for president, vice president, secretary
and treasurer. In how many ways can this be done?
(b) In how many different ways can 5 tosses of a coin yield 2 heads and 3 tails?
4. A real estate agent is showing homes to a prospective buyer. There are ten homes in the
desired price range listed in the area. The buyer wants to visit only three of them.
(a) In how many ways could the three homes be chosen if the order of visiting is considered?
(b) In how many ways could the three homes be chosen if the order of visiting is not
important?
5. Given that () = 0.4, () = 0.7 and ( ) = 0.3, find
(a) ( )
(b) ( )
(c) (|)
6. Given that () = 0.6, ( ) = 0.2 and () = 0.3, find
(a) (|)
(b) ( )
7. For two events and , the probability that occurs is 0.6, the probability that occurs is
0.5 and the probability that both occurs is 0.3. Given that occurred what is the probability that
also occurred?

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Winter 2016

8. Suppose components 1 , 2 , 1 and 2 operate independently, in a system below. The

probability of functioning of each of the components is 0.8. The entire system works if 1 or 2
works and 1 or 2 works. Find the probability that the entire system works.
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9. Approximately 0.4% of the people in the United States are living with HIV infection.
Modern HIV testing is highly accurate. The HIV screening detects 99.7% of the people who
have HIV and shows a negative result for 98.5% of the people who do not have HIV. Suppose a
person had a positive test result. What is the probability that the individual has HIV infection?