Author Question: What important question must you answer before computing an or probability? How does the answer ... (Read 33 times)

biggirl4568 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

What important question must you answer before computing an or probability? How
does the answer influence your computation?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

In a certain town, 40 of adults have a college degree.

The accompanying table describes
the probability distribution for the number of adults (among 4 randomly selected adults)
who have a college degree.
x P(x)
0 0.1296
1 0.3456
2 0.3456
3 0.1536
4 0.0256

bassamabas · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Are the events disjoint or can the events occur simultaneously? If the events can occur simultaneously you must be
careful to count so that each outcome is counted only once.

Answer to Question 2

Probability distribution