Assignment 1

1. The probability that a randomly chosen adult resident of Bay view city owns
a boat is 0.16.
The probability that a randomly chosen adult rents an apartment is 0.30.
The probability that the adult owns a boat or rents an apartment is 0.40.
Find the probability that
a. a randomly chosen adult possesses a boat and rents an apartment.
b. a randomly chosen adult doesn’t own a boat nor rents an apartment.

2. A survey determines that in a particular town, 33% of the resident jog, 42%
bike and 12% do both activities.
a. What is the probability that a randomly selected person bikes or jogs?
b. What is the probability that a randomly selected person does exactly
one activity?

3. The following distribution shows the sample space of the number of tattoo
each student has in a population of students, where X represents the number
of tattoos

X 0 1 2 3 4
P(X) 0.85 0.12 0.015 ? 0.005

a. Find the missing probability that is the probability of x=3

b. If a student is picked at random find:
i. the probability of at least 3 tattoos
ii. the probability of at most 1 tattoo

4. The table shows the result of a survey that asked 4087 people whether they
wore contacts or glasses. A person is selected at random from the sample.
Find the probability of each event.
 a. The person is female or wears both contacts and glasses.
b. The person is male or wears neither of the two.
c. The person is male or does not wear contacts.
d. The person wears only contacts or only glasses.
e. The person wears only glasses and is a male.

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