Statistics Chapter 5 Review

Write out the sample space for each event.

a. Counting the number of girls in a class of 16 students

b. Rolling a 4-sided die twice

Mark rolls a standard die 3 times and picks 2 cards from a standard deck without
replacement. How many outcomes are in the sample space?

Mark rolls a standard die 3 times. Find the probability of

a. all 6’s

b. 1,2,3

c. at least one 4

Mark picks 2 cards without replacement. Find the probability of

a. a jack and then a 2

b. a jack and a 2 in any order

c. no hearts

Claire has a 26% chance of doing her math homework, a 31% chance of doing her English
homework, and a 12% chance of doing both. Find the probability that she does

a. English or math
b. One assignment but not both
c. Neither

Claire has a 72% chance of doing her physics homework. If she does physics, she has a 48%
chance of doing her Spanish homework. If she doesn’t do physics, she has an 83% chance of
doing her Spanish homework. Find the probability that

a. She does physics and Spanish

b. She does Spanish
c. She does physics if she didn’t do Spanish
The table below shows information about high school students and their preferred type of
soda.

Grade
th th
9 10 11th 12th Total
Soda Type Coke 13 23 11 14 61
Pepsi 21 12 7 17 57
Sprite 18 9 19 16 62
Total 52 44 37 47 180

Find the probability that a randomly selected student

a. is a senior who likes Pepsi

b. is a senior if they like Sprite
c. likes Coke
d. likes Coke if they are a freshman

At their annual picnic, 18 students in the mathematics/statistics department at a university

decide to play a softball game. Twelve of the 18 students are math majors and 6 are stats
majors. To divide into two teams of 9, one of the professors put all the players’ names into a
hat and drew out 9 players to form one team, with the remaining 9 players forming the other
team. The players were surprised when one team was made up entirely of math majors. Is it
possible that the names weren’t adequately mixed in the hat, or could this have happened by
chance? Design and carry out a simulation to help answer this question.