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    This document contains 9 math probability problems with multiple parts each. It instructs students to show their work and box their final answers. The problems include calculating probabilities of random events like drawing balls from jars, students enrolled in certain subjects, drug testing outcomes, and forming random 4-digit numbers. The last question asks about considerations for teaching probability at a basic education level.

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    This document contains 9 math probability problems with multiple parts each. It instructs students to show their work and box their final answers. The problems include calculating probabilities of random events like drawing balls from jars, students enrolled in certain subjects, drug testing outcomes, and forming random 4-digit numbers. The last question asks about considerations for teaching probability at a basic education level.

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    Math Ed 807

    Problem Set 3: Read, understand and solve each item carefully. Show your complete solution
    and box the final answer for each item on your answer sheet. For items 1-8, 3 points per each
    letter.
    1. Gabrielle prepares for a quiz by reviewing a list of 10 problems. She can solve 8 of them.
    For the quiz, the professor selects 4 questions at random from the list of 10. What is the
    probability that Gabrielle
    a) can solve all 4 problems on the exam?
    b) Can solve exactly 3 problems on the exam?
    c) Can solve only one problem?
    d) Cannot solve all 4 problems?

    2. A system contains two components, A and B. The system will function as long as either A
    or B functions. The probability that A functions is 0.671, the probability that B functions
    in 0.501, and the probability that the system functions is 0.766. What is the probability
    that
    a) the system functions?
    b) B functions given that A functions also?
    c) A functions given that B is not?
    d) only B is functioning?

    3. From nine alternators, of which four are defective, two alternators are to be selected at
    random for use. What is the probability that

    a) the second alternator selected is not defective, given that the first one is not
    defective?
    b) One alternator is defective and the other is not?
    c) Both are defective?
    d) Both are non-defective?

    4. A basketball coach selects two players from a group of 14 and sends them to an
    international training program. What is the probability that

    a) Jared is chosen given that Roy has already been chosen?


    b) Jared and Roy will be both chosen?
    c) Jared is chosen and Roy is not?
    d) Either Jared or Roy is chosen given that one player has already been chosen?

    5. Jar A has 6 white and 10 black balls; Jar B, 5 white and 9 black; and Jar C, 3 white and 8
    black. A jar is selected at random, and a ball is randomly drawn from that jar. What is the
    probability

    a) that the ball drawn is a white?


    b) that the ball drawn is a black from Jar B?
    c) that Jar A was selected, given that the ball drawn was white?
    d) that Jar C was selected, given that the ball drawn was black?

    6. Many companies are testing prospective employees for drug use, with the intent of avoiding
    possible conflicts in the company. Suppose a company uses a test that is 91.35% accurate - that
    is, it correctly identifies a person as a drug user or nonuser with probability 0.9135 - and to
    reduce the chance of error, each job applicant is required to take the test twice. If the outcomes
    of the two tests on the same person are independent events, what is the probability that
    a. A nonuser fails both tests?
    b. A drug user is detected (i.e., he/she fails at least one test)?
    c. The applicant passes both tests, given that he/she is a user?
    d. A non-user fails the second test given that he/she passed the first test?

    7. A survey among students showed that 25 are enrolled in Math, 23 in in English, 21 in Science, 9
    are in both Math and Science, 8 are in both Math and English, 7 are in both Science and English,
    and 3 are in all three courses. If a student is chosen at random, what is the probability that the
    student is enrolled in :
    a. Exactly two subjects?
    b. In Science given that the student is enrolled in Math?
    c. In English given that the student is not enrolled in Science?
    d. In Math given that the student is enrolled in exactly one subject only?

    8. If a four-digit number is to be formed from the digits {0, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9}, with repetition,
    what is the probability the number is

    a. An even?
    b. Greater than 5,000
    c. A multiple of 10 given that it is a multiple of 5?
    d. A multiple of 5 given that the number is even?

    9. What are the different considerations in teaching probability in the basic education level?
    (4 pts.)

    END

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