Permutation and Combination
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Vocab
Conditional Probability
Discrete or Continuous
100

How many different ways can two students be assigned to five tutors if only one student is assigned to each tutor?

5!/(5-2)!=20

It's permutation because the order of the students doesn't matter

100

What is the most common m&m color?

Orange, the average bag contains 21% Orange. 

100

Experiment

sample is divided into 2 groups (experimental and control group)

100

What is the formula for conditional probability?

100

Is this graph discrete or 

Continuous

200

How many 4-colored groups can be selected from 13 different colored balloons?

13!/(13-4)!3!=715

200

What is the probability of drawing a jack out of a deck of cards?

What is the probability of drawing an ace of hearts?

4/52 ; 1/52

200

Permutation

an arrangement of a group of distinct objects in a certain order

200

King High School tallied the # of males and females that were member of at least one after school club.

a) a student is a member of a club given that he is a male

G           Clubs          No Clubs        Total

M            156                242            398

F             312                108            420

               468               350             818

156/398

200

Give an example of discrete data and a continuous data.

(answers will vary) ex: 

Discrete:

  1. Number of children in a household
  2. Number of languages a person speaks
  3. Number of people sleeping in stats class

Continous: 

  1. Height of children
  2. Weight of cars
  3. Time to wake up in the morning
300

How many different ways can you pick a group of 3 people from a class of 10. 

C(10,3) = 10!/(7! · 3!) = 10 · 9 · 8 / (3 · 2 · 1) = 120.

300

what century was statistics introduced?

mid 17th century 

Fun Fact!

William Playfair was a secret agent for Great Britain during the French Revolution. He was the founder of graphical methods of statistics.

300

Independent events

the occurrence of one event does not affect the probability of a second event occurring.

300

At a restaurant, 25% of customers order chili. if 4% of customers orders chili and a baked potato, find the probability that someone who orders chili also orders a baked potato.

P(BP/Chili)=0.04/0.25=0.16

16% probability someone orders a chili also orders a baked potato.

300

Is this graph discrete or continuous?


Discrete

400

Jack has a reading list of 12 books. How many ways can he select 9 books from the list to checkout of the library?

12!/(12-9)!=220

400

What is a positively skewed graph

400

What is a Box and Whisker

a graphic way to display the median, quartiles, and extremes of a data set on a number line to show the distribution of the data. 

Extra 500 points if you can put it in a calculator

400

A student is not a member of a club give that she is a female

G           Clubs          No Clubs        Total

M            156                242            398

F             312                108            420

               468               350             818

242/350

400

What is the difference between Discrete and Continuous?

Discrete - he values belonging to the set are distinct and separate (unconnected values)

Continuous - values belonging to the set can take on ANY value within a finite or infinite interval