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MA 485/585
Probability Theory(Dr Chernov)
Five cardsFive cards are labeled 1,2,3,4,5.They are shuffled and lined up in an arbitrary order.
How many ways can this be done? What is the chance that they are lined up in the right order: 1,2,3,4,5?
CommitteeA committee of 10 members decides to choose a chair and a secretary arbitrarily (at random).
What is the chance that the tallest member becomes the chair and shortest – the secretary?
ChairSecretary
2 AcesA deck of 10 cards contains two aces.We pick two cards arbitrarily (at random).
What is the chance that both are aces?
Pascal’s triangle
Coin tossing
A coin is tossed 100 times.
What is the chance one observes exactly
50 Heads and 50 Tails?
10 men and 10 women
A company employs 10 men and 10 women. It forms a team of three employees for a project by picking the employees at random. What is the chance that allmembers of the team are women?
2 dice
Two dice are rolled. What is the chance that the sum of the numbers shown equals 9?
Die unfolded
Sides of a die are marked by numbers: 1,2,3,4,5,6When you roll a die, one of these numbers comes up
Two dice rolled:
When two dice are rolled, two numbers come up.
Urn with black and white balls
An urn contains 10 white balls and 20 black balls. Four balls are taken from the urn at random. What is the probability that two white and two black balls are taken?
Concepts of Probabilities
Event
any collection of outcomes of a procedure
Outcome
an outcome or a possible event that cannot be further broken down into simpler components
Probability Space
(for a procedure) the collection of all possible outcomes
Probability Limits
The probability of an event that is certain to occur is 1.
The probability of an impossible event is 0.
For any event A, the probability of A is between 0 and 1 inclusive. That is, 0 P(A) 1.
Possible Values for Probabilities
Complementary Events
The complement of event A, denoted by
Ac, consists of all outcomes in which the
event A does not occur.
Venn Diagram for the Complement of Event A
A is yellow, Ac is pink
Rules for Complementary Events
P(A) + P(Ac) = 1
= 1 – P(A)
P(A) = 1 – P(Ac)
P(Ac)
Illustration (Venn Diagram)
A is the red disk, B is the yellow disk
A or B is the total area covered by
both disks.
Disjoint EventsEvents A and B are disjoint (or mutually exclusive) if they cannot occur at the same time. (That is, disjoint events do not overlap.)
Venn Diagram for Disjoint Events
Addition Rule for disjoint events
P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B)
(only if A and B are disjoint)
Venn’s diagram for two events
Venn’s diagram for three events
Binomial probability function
Binomial probability functions for n=100and p = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9
The 68-95-99.7 Rule
The 68-95-99.7 Rule
The 68-95-99.7 Rule