SSF1093 Tutorial for Probability

1. Assuming a multiple-choice question has four answers. If Amy chooses one answer based on ‘pure
guess’, what is the probability that her answer is correct?

2. A sample of 900 adults showed that 90 of them had no credit cards, 124 had one card each, 103 had
two cards each, 77 had three cards each, 51 had four cards each, and the rest had five or more cards.
Show the frequency distribution for the number of cards an adult possesses.

a. Calculate the relative frequency for all categories.

b. Suppose one adult is randomly selected from these 900 adults, what is the probability that this adult
has at least three credit cards?
c. On average, how many cards an adult have? (KIV this question till we come to discrete random
variable and the probability)

3. In a total of 400 employees of a company, 280 are nonsmokers. Management selects randomly one
employee from this company. What is the probability that this employee is a smoker?

4. A random sample of 250 first year students majoring in psychology and communication at FSS is
selected.
Major Happy Unhappy
Psychology 75 25
Communication 120 30____

If one student is selected at random from this first year students, find the probability that this student
is:
a. Happy with the choice of major
b. A communication major
c. A psychology major and happy with that major
d. Happy given he/she is a communication major
e. A communication major or unhappy with the choice of major
f. Psychology student given he/she is happy with the choice of major.

5. Forty professors of sciences and liberal arts are asked where they would prefer to vacation if given the
choice. Their grouped responses appear in the following table.
Caribbean Pacific Islands Europe Other
Sciences 8 4 3 3
Liberal Arts 10 5 5 2

You choose one of the forty professors at random. What is the probability that the selected professor
would choose the Caribbean? What is the probability that the selected professor is a sciences
professor? Suppose the randomly selected professor is a liberal arts professor. What is the probability
that he/she would choose Europe for vacation?
6. An insurance company reported the following experience with damage-only claims according to the
age category of its clients for automobile accidents in 2010.

Age
Under 25 25 and older
Claim 1053 1020
No Claim 4139 6087

a) What is the probability that a driver under 25 insured by the company will make a claim?
b) What is the probability that a person selected at random from this group of insured person made a
claim?
c) What is the probability that an insured person is 25 and older and does not make a claim?
d) If a selected insured person does not make a claim. What is the probability the he/she is aged under
25?

7. The following table shows the relative frequency of a large department store’s customers according to
their gender and place of residence.

Type of residence Gender

Male Female
Suburban 0.17 0.67
City 0.04 0.12

Suppose a single adult is selected among this group of customers. Find the following probability:

a. The customer resides in the city.

b. The customer is a male and lives in the city
c. The customer is a female
d. What is the probability that a customer lives in the city if she is a female?