Combinatorics - math word problems

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  • Normal Distribution
    normal_d At one college, GPA's are normally distributed with a mean of 3.1 and a standard deviation of 0.4. What percentage of students at the college have a GPA between 2.7 and 3.5?
  • Shooters
    soldiers In army regiment are six shooters. The first shooter target hit with a probability of 49%, next with 75%, 41%, 20%, 34%, 63%. Calculate the probability of target hit when shooting all at once.
  • Air draft
    numbers2_2 The numbers 1,2,3,4,5 are written on five tickets on the table. Air draft randomly shuffled the tickets and composed a 5-digit number from them. What is the probability that he passed: and, the largest possible number b, the smallest possible number c, a
  • Lottery
    lottery Fernando has two lottery tickets each from other lottery. In the first is 973 000 lottery tickets from them wins 687 000, the second has 1425 000 lottery tickets from them wins 1425 000 tickets. What is the probability that at least one Fernando's ticket
  • IQ Intelligence quotient
    normal_d_1 Intelligence quotient (IQ) is a standardized score used as the output of standardized intelligence psychological tests to quantify a person's intelligence with the rest of the population (respectively to a given group). Intelligence has an approximately n
  • Chess
    sachovnica How many ways can select 4 fields on a classic chessboard with 64 fields so that fields don't have the same color?
  • Owner of the company
    TEA The owner of the company with extensive administrative activity wants to sell the obsolete 3 machines at the price of CZK 1000 per 1 machine with a six-month warranty period. If the machine breaks down during this period, the owner will return the employe
  • The accompanying
    books_2 The accompanying table gives the probability distribution of the number of courses randomly selected student has registered Number of courses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Probability 0.02 0.03 0.1 0.3 0.4 - 0.01 respectively. a) Find the probability of a student registe
  • STRESSED word
    DESSERTS Each letter in STRESSED is printed on identical cards, one letter per card, and assembled in random order. Calculate the probability that the cards spell DESSERTS when assembled.
  • White and black balls
    balls_bw There are 7 white and 3 black balls in an opaque pocket. The balls are the same size. a) Randomly pull out one ball. What is the probability that it will be white? We pull out one ball, see what color it is and return it to the pocket. Then we pull out th
  • Doctor 2
    heart A doctor noted the Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) of a large number of patients. Later, he scrambled the data to keep the privacy of his patients. Based on the scrambled dataset, he finds that the lower inner fence is equal to 50 and the upper inner fence
  • Class - boys and girls
    kresba In the class are 60% boys and 40% girls. Long hair has 10% boys and 80% girls. a) What is the probability that a randomly chosen person has long hair? b) The selected person has long hair. What is the probability that it is a girl?
  • Chambers
    commision The decision-making committee consists of three people. In order for the commission's decision to be valid, at least two members must vote in the same way. It is not possible not to vote in the commission, everyone only votes yes or no. We assume that the
  • PIN code
    pin_2 PIN on Michael credit card is a four-digit number. Michael told this to his friend: • It is a prime number - that is, a number greater than 1, which is only divisible by number one and by itself. • The first digit is larger than the second. • The second d
  • Stoaches
    normal_d_2 Stoaches are fictional creatures distantly related to bigfoot and yeti. Stoach weights are normally distributed, with mean 904g and standard deviation 104g. State the probability that the sample mean of a random sample of 36 stoach weights exceeds 943g. (
  • Utopia Island
    doktori A probability of disease A on the island of Utopia is 40%. A probability of occurrence among the men of this island, which make up 60% of all the population (the rest are women), is 50%. What is the probability of occurrence of A disease among women on Ut
  • Salami
    salama How many ways can we choose 5 pcs of salami if we have 6 types of salami for 10 pieces and one type for 4 pieces?
  • One dice
    dice Calculate the probability of a roll of one dice with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on the walls. Write the results in a notebook in the shape of a fraction in the basic form: 2/3. a, The number 1 falls on the cube. b, The number 5 falls on the cube. c, An
  • Box and whisker plot
    box-whisker-plot Construct a box and whisker plot for the given data. 56, 32, 54, 32, 23, 67, 23, 45, 12, 32, 34, 24, 36, 47, 19, 43
  • Statistics quiz
    normal_d_1 Fill in the missing word 1. in a data set, the mean, median and mode are measured of ________________ 2. "The manipulation of variables under controlled conditions"is the data collection method known as______________ 3. in a normal distribution, the area

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