A total of 30 bears-consisting of 10 red bears, 10 yellow bears, and 10 blue bears-are randomly arranged into 10 groups of 3 bears each. Compute the expected number of groups in which all 3 bears are different colors.
A little girl randomly arranges 30 bears-consisting of 10 red bears, 10 yellow bears, and 10 blue bears-into 10 bowls of 3 bears [each. (All outcomes are equally likely.) Let X denotes the number of bowls that have at least one blue bear in the bowl. (The little girl loves blue bears.) Find the...
A total of 30 bears-consisting of 10 red bears, 10yellow bears, and 10 blue bears-are randomly arranged in a bucket. A child begins grabbing the bears at random, with all selections equally likely. The bears are selected \"without replacement,\" i.e., she never puts the bears back after she grabs...
A standard card deck has 52 cards consisting of 26 black and 26 red cards. Three cards are dealt from a shuffled deck, without replacement. a. True or false: The probability of being dealt three black cards is (1/2) × (1/2) × (1/2) = 1/8. If true, explain why. If false, show how to get the...
Taylor designs and manufactures high- performance bicycle chains for professional racers and serious amateurs. Two new titanium chain sets, the Challenger and the Tour, sell for ¬ 110 and ¬ 155, respectively. The following data summarize the cost structure for the two chain sets: Taylor...
The Director of Planning for Devine Dining Inc. wishes to study the relationship between the gender of a guest and whether the guest orders dessert. To investigate the relationship, the manager collected the following information on 200 recent customers. a. What is the level of measurement of the...
Find a recent news article discussing some aspect of travel safety (such as risk of accidents in automobiles or airplanes, the efficacy of child car seats, or the effects of talking on a cell phone while driving). Summarize any given statistics about risks, and give your overall opinion regarding...
South Coast Boards Co. is a merchandising business. The account balances for South Coast Boards Co. as of July 1, 2010 (unless otherwise indicated), are as follows: During July, the last month of the fiscal year, the following transactions were completed:July 1. Paid rent for July, $5,000.3....
4. The \"shorthand\" electron configuration for bromine, atomic number 35, can be written as. a. [Kr]4s?4p5 b. [Krj4s°4p 3d10 c. [Ar]4s 3d104ps d. [Arj4s?4ps e. None of the above 5. For the row on the periodic table beginning with sodium, the shell being filled is. a. n=1 b. n=2 C. n=3 d. n=4 e. n=5...
You are given two tables describing theater plays and reservations for these plays in specific theaters. create table plays id integer not null, title varchar (40) not null, writer varchar ( 40 ) not null, unique (id) create table reservations id integer not null, play_id integer not null,...
Eight people enter an elevator in the parking garage below a building. Each person chooses her exit independently of the other people. The building has floors 1 through 10. What is the expected number of stops that the elevator makes?
Consider n pieces of rope. Each piece is colored blue at one end and red at the other. The blue ends of the ropes are randomly paired with the red ends of the ropes and tied together, one-to-one, i.e., all n! Such possible methods of joining the ropes this way are equally likely. Let X be the...
A very small object with mass 8.20 × 10 -9 kg and positive charge 6.50 × 10 -9 C is projected directly toward a very large insulating sheet of positive charge that has uniform surface charge density 5.90 × 10 -8 C/m 2 . The object is initially 0.400 m from the sheet. What initial speed must the...