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STA201 Assignment 3

This document contains 7 questions about probability. Question 1 asks for the probability of an outcome occurring in the first round of a coin tossing game between 3 people. Question 2 describes drawing marbles from a box with replacement and without. Question 3 asks for the probability of the product of dice rolls being 12. Question 4 asks for the probability a randomly chosen family owns a car or home but not both. Question 5 asks for the probability a patient chose meditation to reduce blood pressure risk. Question 6 asks for the probability a coin landed tails given a white ball was drawn from two urns. Question 7 asks for the probability a coin that showed heads was a two-headed coin.

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STA201 Assignment 3

This document contains 7 questions about probability. Question 1 asks for the probability of an outcome occurring in the first round of a coin tossing game between 3 people. Question 2 describes drawing marbles from a box with replacement and without. Question 3 asks for the probability of the product of dice rolls being 12. Question 4 asks for the probability a randomly chosen family owns a car or home but not both. Question 5 asks for the probability a patient chose meditation to reduce blood pressure risk. Question 6 asks for the probability a coin landed tails given a white ball was drawn from two urns. Question 7 asks for the probability a coin that showed heads was a two-headed coin.

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STA201 – Summer 2022 – Sections 10, 13, & 15

Assignment 3
1. Suppose each of three persons tosses a coin. If the outcome of one of the tosses differs
from the other outcomes, then the game ends. If not, then the persons start over and re-toss
their coins. Assuming fair coins, what is the probability that the game will end with the
first round of tosses? If all three coins are biased and have probability 1/4 of landing heads,
what is the probability that the game will end at the first round?

2. A box contains ten marbles: two red, five green, and three blue.
a. Consider an experiment that consists of taking one marble from the box then replacing
it in the box and drawing a second marble from the box. What is the sample space? If,
at all times, each marble in the box is equally likely to be selected, what is the
probability of each point in the sample space?
b. Repeat the previous experiment when the second marble is drawn without replacing
the first marble.

3. Suppose, you are rolling two regular six-sided dice and two four-sided dice together. Let’s
say, the sum of the numbers appearing on the two regular six-sided dice is ‘A’ and the sum
of the numbers appearing on the two four-sided dice is ‘B’. What is the probability that the
product of A and B is 12?

4. Sixty percent of the families in a certain community own their own car, thirty percent own
their own home, and twenty percent own both their own car and their own home. If a family
is randomly chosen, what is the probability that this family owns a car or a house but not
both?

5. Assume that the chances of a patient suffering from high blood pressure is 40%. It is also
assumed that a course of meditation reduces the risk of high blood pressure by 35% and
prescription of certain drugs reduces its chances by 65%. At a time, a patient can choose
any one of the two options with equal probabilities. It is given that after going through one
of the two options, the patient selected at random does not suffer from high blood pressure.
Find the probability that the patient chose a course of meditation?

6. Urn 1 has five white and seven black balls. Urn 2 has three white and twelve black balls.
We flip a fair coin. If the outcome is heads, then a ball from urn 1 is selected, while if the
outcome is tails, then a ball from urn 2 is selected. Suppose that a white ball is selected.
What is the probability that the coin landed tails?

7. There are three coins in a box. One is a two-headed coin, another is a fair coin, and the
third is a biased coin that comes up heads 75 percent of the time. When one of the three
coins is selected at random and flipped, it shows heads. What is the probability that it was
the two-headed coin?

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