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nramada

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on: Jun 24, 2018
Assume you have applied for two jobs A and B. The probability that you get an offer for job A is 0.23 . The probability of being offered job B is 0.19 . The probability of getting at least one of the jobs is 0.38.
 a. What is the probability that you will be offered both jobs?
  b. Are events A and B mutually exclusive? Why or why not? Explain.

Question 2

Which of the following applications modeled in the textbook does not involve only 0 - 1 integer variables?
 a. supply chain design
 b. bank location
 c. capital budgeting
 d. product design and market share optimization


atrochim

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a. 0.04
b. No, because P(A  B)  0

Answer to Question 2

a


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