Tutorial 1

By: Nguyễn Thanh Sơn/ID:10422072

1.
a) The sample space when a coin is tossed 3 times: {(head,head,head),(head,head,tail),(head, tail,
tail),(head, tail, head),(tail, head, tail),(tail, tail, head),(tail, tail, tail),(tail,head,head)}
b) The sample space for counting the number of females in a group of n people is: {0 female, 1
female, 2 females, 3 females, …, n females}
c) The sample space for the number of aces in a hand of 13 playing cards is: {0,1,2,3,4}
d) The sample space for a person’s birthday is: {1st January, 2nd January, …, 30th December, 31st
December}
e) The sample space for a car repair is: {(on time, satisfactorily), (on time, unsatisfactorily), (late,
satisfactorily), (late, unsatisfactorily)}
f) The sample space when a ball is chosen from the bag is: {(red, dull), (red, shiny), (blue,
shiny), (blue, dull)}

2.
p
a) =1=¿ p=1− p=¿2 p=1=¿ p=0.5
1− p
p 2
b) =2=¿ p=2−2 p=¿ 3 p=2=¿ p=
1− p 3
0.25 0.25 1
c) = =
1−0.25 0.75 3
d) [0,1)

3.
a) P(V) = 1 – P(I) - P(II) – P(III) – P(IV) = 1 – 0.13 – 0.24 – 0.06 - 0.38 = 0.18
1−( 0.08+0.2+0.33)
b) P(V) = P(IV) = = 0.195
2

4.
P(I) = 2P(II) & P(II) = 3P(III) => P(I) = 6P(III)
P(I) + P(II) + P(III) = 1  6P(III) + 3P(III) + P(III) = 1 => 10P(III) = 1 => P(III) = 0.1
=> P(I) = 0.6; P(II) = 0.3

5.
p = 1 – 0.28 – 0.55 = 0.17