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Questions To Help You Familiarize With Different Types of Probability
Questions To Help You Familiarize With Different Types of Probability
Questions To Help You Familiarize With Different Types of Probability
1. A company has a sales force of 20 people. If each salesperson has a 30% chance of making a
sale on any given call, what is the probability that at least 5 sales will be made on a given day?
2. A telecommunications network experiences an average of 2 network outages per day. What is
the probability that there are no network outages in a randomly selected day?
3. A university has a student population of 10,000. If 70% of the students are from in-state and
the rest are from out-of-state, how many students would you expect to be from out-of-state in
a random sample of 500?
4. A manufacturing plant produces light bulbs with a 2% defect rate. If a customer buys 100 light
bulbs, what is the probability that at least one is defective?
5. An engineering team is working on a project, and the probability of a component failing during
testing is 0.10. If they test 50 components, what is the probability that less than 5 components
fail?
6. A company's product has a weight that is normally distributed with a mean of 500 grams and a
standard deviation of 20 grams. What is the probability that a randomly selected product will
weigh less than 480 grams?
7. A call center receives an average of 10 calls per hour. What is the probability that the center
will receive 15 or more calls in a given hour?
8. A hospital has an average of 5 emergency room visits per hour. What is the probability that
there will be no more than 2 visits in a given 30-minute period?
9. A website has an average of 500 hits per day. What is the probability that the website will
receive 600 or more hits in a given day?
10. A student's test scores are normally distributed with a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of
10. What is the probability that the student will score above 90 on the next test?
11. The heights of a population of adults are normally distributed with a mean of 170 cm and a
standard deviation of 5 cm. What is the probability that a randomly selected adult will be taller
than 180 cm?