Sets
Simple Probability
Conditional Probability
Binomial Distribution
Random Topics
100

Give the definition of a set

A collection of objects

100

A building has 26 floors.  Suppose you get on the elevator and randomly choose a button.  What is the probability that you end up on the 13th floor?

1/26

100

What is the conditional probability formula?

P(A|B) = P(A and B)/P(B)
100

What is the Binomial Distribution Formula?

P(k successes) = nCk (p)^k*(q)^(n-k)

100

Name three forms of quadratics we studied last year.

standard, vertex, factored

200

Let U be all students in this class.  What does n(U) mean in words?

The number of students in this class

200

A building has 26 floors.  Suppose you get on the elevator and randomly choose a button.  What is the probability that you end up on the 13th OR the 15th floor?

1/13

200

P(A) = 0.1, P(B)=0.6, P(A and B) = 0.04

What is P(A|B)?

1/15

200

Suppose you flip a coin 10 times.  What is the probability that exactly 3 of those flips are tails?

11.7%

200

What is the compound interest formula?

A=P(1+r/k*100)kn

300

In a class of 29 students, 19 study Spanish, 14 study French, and 5 study both languages.  How many students study neither language?

1 student

300

A building has 26 floors.  Suppose you get on the elevator and randomly choose a button.  What is the probability that you end up on the 13th AND the 15th floor?

0

300

A card is drawn randomly from a deck of 52 cards.  Find the probability that an ace is drawn given that the card draw is a diamond.

1/13

300

Suppose a baseball player has a batting average of 0.295.  What is the probability that he gets exactly 6 hits out of his next 20 at bats?

19.1%

300

What are the keystrokes on the TI-84 to find a linear regression equation?

stat->right arrow to calc->down arrow to option 4

400

Consider the set W = {0,1,2,3,4,5}

1) Create a proper subset of W

2) Create a subset of W that would be considered "not-proper"

1) Answers vary

2) {0,1,2,3,4,5}

400

Suppose each person is given a vaccine number that is 5 digits and can use the numbers 0-9 for each digit.  If you are assigned a number at random, what is the probability that you receive number 00000?

1/100,000

400

A card is drawn randomly from a deck of 52 cards.  What is the probability that a king is drawn given that the card is red and a face card?

1/3 or 0.333

400

A certain medication has a 10% chance of producing a negative reaction in patients.  What is the probability that out of 100 patients, no more than 8 will have a negative reaction?

32.1%

400

When the mean, median, and mode are identical for a uni-variate data set, what does that tell you about the distribution of the data set?

The distribution is symmetrical

500

Consider two sets P and Q.  Draw a classic Venn diagram showing P and Q.  Then Shade the region that represents (P and Q)'

Show me the drawing!

500

Suppose you play a lotto that has 25 balls numbered 1-25, of which 3 are chosen.  What is the probability that you match all three balls, ignoring order?

1/2300

500

Let x = heads on a fair coin flip.  Suppose you are flipping the coin twice in total.

P(x) = 0.5

P(x|x) = 0.5

What is P(x and x)?

0.25 or 1/4

500

A teacher writes a 55 question multiple choice test, on which each question has 5 answer choices.  One student guesses at random for each question.  What is the probability that the student gets at least 10 questions correct?

68.4%

500

The population of bees can be modeled by... 

b(t) = 100(1.2)t where t is in months.

After how many months will the population reach 50,000 bees?

34.1 months