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The following questions are to be answered as preparation to my exam next Friday. I feel I understand the terms, such as "complement", "union", and "intersection", but when confronted with questions that necessitate this particular knowledge I struggle and mostly fail to answer them correctly. If anybody can give me some tips on how to go about answering these types of questions and the basics of this particular probability topic, I would appreciate it by incomprehensible amounts!
- Consider a fair six-sided die and the event of throwing a roll higher than 3. The complement of this event is {1,2,3}.
- Consider flipping a coin twice and the events A={TT, HH} and the event B={HT,TH}.
The events A and B are mutually exclusive but not collectively exhaustive. - After flipping a coin 100 times, you find that it has come Heads 61 times and Tails 39
times. You therefore calculate that the probability of Heads is 61 percent. This is an
application of the classical probability approach. - When rolling two fair six-sided dice, the probability that the sum of the two rolls is 4, is higher than the probability that the sum is 5.
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The following questions are to be answered as preparation to my exam next Friday. I feel I understand the terms, such as "complement", "union", and "intersection", but when confronted with questions that necessitate this particular knowledge I struggle and mostly fail to answer them correctly. If anybody can give me some tips on how to go about answering these types of questions and the basics of this particular probability topic, I would appreciate it by incomprehensible amounts!
- Consider a fair six-sided die and the event of throwing a roll higher than 3. The complement of this event is {1,2,3}.
- Consider flipping a coin twice and the events A={TT, HH} and the event B={HT,TH}.
The events A and B are mutually exclusive but not collectively exhaustive. - After flipping a coin 100 times, you find that it has come Heads 61 times and Tails 39
times. You therefore calculate that the probability of Heads is 61 percent. This is an
application of the classical probability approach. - When rolling two fair six-sided dice, the probability that the sum of the two rolls is 4, is higher than the probability that the sum is 5.
probability statistics
asked Apr 4 '14 at 16:08
Scott GoddardScott Goddard
314
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The following questions are to be answered as preparation to my exam next Friday. I feel I understand the terms, such as "complement", "union", and "intersection", but when confronted with questions that necessitate this particular knowledge I struggle and mostly fail to answer them correctly. If anybody can give me some tips on how to go about answering these types of questions and the basics of this particular probability topic, I would appreciate it by incomprehensible amounts!
- Consider a fair six-sided die and the event of throwing a roll higher than 3. The complement of this event is {1,2,3}.
- Consider flipping a coin twice and the events A={TT, HH} and the event B={HT,TH}.
The events A and B are mutually exclusive but not collectively exhaustive. - After flipping a coin 100 times, you find that it has come Heads 61 times and Tails 39
times. You therefore calculate that the probability of Heads is 61 percent. This is an
application of the classical probability approach. - When rolling two fair six-sided dice, the probability that the sum of the two rolls is 4, is higher than the probability that the sum is 5.
probability statistics
asked Apr 4 '14 at 16:08
Scott GoddardScott Goddard
314
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The following questions are to be answered as preparation to my exam next Friday. I feel I understand the terms, such as "complement", "union", and "intersection", but when confronted with questions that necessitate this particular knowledge I struggle and mostly fail to answer them correctly. If anybody can give me some tips on how to go about answering these types of questions and the basics of this particular probability topic, I would appreciate it by incomprehensible amounts!
- Consider a fair six-sided die and the event of throwing a roll higher than 3. The complement of this event is {1,2,3}.
- Consider flipping a coin twice and the events A={TT, HH} and the event B={HT,TH}.
The events A and B are mutually exclusive but not collectively exhaustive. - After flipping a coin 100 times, you find that it has come Heads 61 times and Tails 39
times. You therefore calculate that the probability of Heads is 61 percent. This is an
application of the classical probability approach. - When rolling two fair six-sided dice, the probability that the sum of the two rolls is 4, is higher than the probability that the sum is 5.
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If you have an event, the complement can be thought of as NOT that event.
In case 1, the event is "scoring higher than 3 on a six sided dice". This means you can roll a 4, 5, or 6. This means the numbers that are NOT that event are 1, 2 and 3, thus the complement = {1, 2, 3}
Mutually exclusive means that if one event occurs, the other CANNOT occur, and vice versa. In case 2, if A occurs, then there is no way that B can, because that's how coins work!
Collectively exhaustive means that at least one of the events must occur. Obviously these two are not, if I got {HH, HH} then neither A or B has occurred.
In question 4, it may be useful to draw a table. On the top, write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the first die, and vertically write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the second die. If you add their scores where each row/column touches, then count how many are higher than 4, it will be greater than the amount that are higher than 5.
answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
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Might I add that not one of those was actually a question, and perhaps you should use some of the resources on the internet if you need to learn these topics
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– csey
Apr 4 '14 at 16:25
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Hi Charlie, I forgot to add that the above questions, or rather statements, are of a true or false format. If you can ascertain which are true and which are false, I will appreciate it for the rest of eternity (and I'm not even joking, Maths is the bane of my life).
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– Scott Goddard
Apr 4 '14 at 17:58
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The last question asks whether the probability that the sum of the two rolls is $4$ is higher than the probability that the sum is $5$, not whether the number of outcomes higher than $4$ is greater than the number of outcomes higher than $5$.
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– N. F. Taussig
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If you have an event, the complement can be thought of as NOT that event.
In case 1, the event is "scoring higher than 3 on a six sided dice". This means you can roll a 4, 5, or 6. This means the numbers that are NOT that event are 1, 2 and 3, thus the complement = {1, 2, 3}
Mutually exclusive means that if one event occurs, the other CANNOT occur, and vice versa. In case 2, if A occurs, then there is no way that B can, because that's how coins work!
Collectively exhaustive means that at least one of the events must occur. Obviously these two are not, if I got {HH, HH} then neither A or B has occurred.
In question 4, it may be useful to draw a table. On the top, write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the first die, and vertically write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the second die. If you add their scores where each row/column touches, then count how many are higher than 4, it will be greater than the amount that are higher than 5.
answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
cseycsey
191
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Might I add that not one of those was actually a question, and perhaps you should use some of the resources on the internet if you need to learn these topics
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– csey
Apr 4 '14 at 16:25
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Hi Charlie, I forgot to add that the above questions, or rather statements, are of a true or false format. If you can ascertain which are true and which are false, I will appreciate it for the rest of eternity (and I'm not even joking, Maths is the bane of my life).
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– Scott Goddard
Apr 4 '14 at 17:58
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The last question asks whether the probability that the sum of the two rolls is $4$ is higher than the probability that the sum is $5$, not whether the number of outcomes higher than $4$ is greater than the number of outcomes higher than $5$.
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– N. F. Taussig
Aug 3 '17 at 9:25
add a comment |
$begingroup$
If you have an event, the complement can be thought of as NOT that event.
In case 1, the event is "scoring higher than 3 on a six sided dice". This means you can roll a 4, 5, or 6. This means the numbers that are NOT that event are 1, 2 and 3, thus the complement = {1, 2, 3}
Mutually exclusive means that if one event occurs, the other CANNOT occur, and vice versa. In case 2, if A occurs, then there is no way that B can, because that's how coins work!
Collectively exhaustive means that at least one of the events must occur. Obviously these two are not, if I got {HH, HH} then neither A or B has occurred.
In question 4, it may be useful to draw a table. On the top, write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the first die, and vertically write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the second die. If you add their scores where each row/column touches, then count how many are higher than 4, it will be greater than the amount that are higher than 5.
answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
cseycsey
191
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Might I add that not one of those was actually a question, and perhaps you should use some of the resources on the internet if you need to learn these topics
$endgroup$
– csey
Apr 4 '14 at 16:25
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Hi Charlie, I forgot to add that the above questions, or rather statements, are of a true or false format. If you can ascertain which are true and which are false, I will appreciate it for the rest of eternity (and I'm not even joking, Maths is the bane of my life).
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– Scott Goddard
Apr 4 '14 at 17:58
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The last question asks whether the probability that the sum of the two rolls is $4$ is higher than the probability that the sum is $5$, not whether the number of outcomes higher than $4$ is greater than the number of outcomes higher than $5$.
$endgroup$
– N. F. Taussig
Aug 3 '17 at 9:25
add a comment |
$begingroup$
If you have an event, the complement can be thought of as NOT that event.
In case 1, the event is "scoring higher than 3 on a six sided dice". This means you can roll a 4, 5, or 6. This means the numbers that are NOT that event are 1, 2 and 3, thus the complement = {1, 2, 3}
Mutually exclusive means that if one event occurs, the other CANNOT occur, and vice versa. In case 2, if A occurs, then there is no way that B can, because that's how coins work!
Collectively exhaustive means that at least one of the events must occur. Obviously these two are not, if I got {HH, HH} then neither A or B has occurred.
In question 4, it may be useful to draw a table. On the top, write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the first die, and vertically write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the second die. If you add their scores where each row/column touches, then count how many are higher than 4, it will be greater than the amount that are higher than 5.
answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
cseycsey
191
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If you have an event, the complement can be thought of as NOT that event.
In case 1, the event is "scoring higher than 3 on a six sided dice". This means you can roll a 4, 5, or 6. This means the numbers that are NOT that event are 1, 2 and 3, thus the complement = {1, 2, 3}
Mutually exclusive means that if one event occurs, the other CANNOT occur, and vice versa. In case 2, if A occurs, then there is no way that B can, because that's how coins work!
Collectively exhaustive means that at least one of the events must occur. Obviously these two are not, if I got {HH, HH} then neither A or B has occurred.
In question 4, it may be useful to draw a table. On the top, write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the first die, and vertically write 1 2 3 4 5 6 for the second die. If you add their scores where each row/column touches, then count how many are higher than 4, it will be greater than the amount that are higher than 5.
answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
cseycsey
191
answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
cseycsey
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answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
cseycsey
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answered Apr 4 '14 at 16:22
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Might I add that not one of those was actually a question, and perhaps you should use some of the resources on the internet if you need to learn these topics
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– csey
Apr 4 '14 at 16:25
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Hi Charlie, I forgot to add that the above questions, or rather statements, are of a true or false format. If you can ascertain which are true and which are false, I will appreciate it for the rest of eternity (and I'm not even joking, Maths is the bane of my life).
$endgroup$
– Scott Goddard
Apr 4 '14 at 17:58
$begingroup$
The last question asks whether the probability that the sum of the two rolls is $4$ is higher than the probability that the sum is $5$, not whether the number of outcomes higher than $4$ is greater than the number of outcomes higher than $5$.
$endgroup$
– N. F. Taussig
Aug 3 '17 at 9:25
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Might I add that not one of those was actually a question, and perhaps you should use some of the resources on the internet if you need to learn these topics
$endgroup$
– csey
Apr 4 '14 at 16:25
$begingroup$
Hi Charlie, I forgot to add that the above questions, or rather statements, are of a true or false format. If you can ascertain which are true and which are false, I will appreciate it for the rest of eternity (and I'm not even joking, Maths is the bane of my life).
$endgroup$
– Scott Goddard
Apr 4 '14 at 17:58
$begingroup$
The last question asks whether the probability that the sum of the two rolls is $4$ is higher than the probability that the sum is $5$, not whether the number of outcomes higher than $4$ is greater than the number of outcomes higher than $5$.
$endgroup$
– N. F. Taussig
Aug 3 '17 at 9:25
$begingroup$
Might I add that not one of those was actually a question, and perhaps you should use some of the resources on the internet if you need to learn these topics
$endgroup$
– csey
Apr 4 '14 at 16:25
$begingroup$
Might I add that not one of those was actually a question, and perhaps you should use some of the resources on the internet if you need to learn these topics
$endgroup$
– csey
Apr 4 '14 at 16:25
$begingroup$
Hi Charlie, I forgot to add that the above questions, or rather statements, are of a true or false format. If you can ascertain which are true and which are false, I will appreciate it for the rest of eternity (and I'm not even joking, Maths is the bane of my life).
$endgroup$
– Scott Goddard
Apr 4 '14 at 17:58
$begingroup$
Hi Charlie, I forgot to add that the above questions, or rather statements, are of a true or false format. If you can ascertain which are true and which are false, I will appreciate it for the rest of eternity (and I'm not even joking, Maths is the bane of my life).
$endgroup$
– Scott Goddard
Apr 4 '14 at 17:58
$begingroup$
The last question asks whether the probability that the sum of the two rolls is $4$ is higher than the probability that the sum is $5$, not whether the number of outcomes higher than $4$ is greater than the number of outcomes higher than $5$.
$endgroup$
– N. F. Taussig
Aug 3 '17 at 9:25
$begingroup$
The last question asks whether the probability that the sum of the two rolls is $4$ is higher than the probability that the sum is $5$, not whether the number of outcomes higher than $4$ is greater than the number of outcomes higher than $5$.
$endgroup$
– N. F. Taussig
Aug 3 '17 at 9:25
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