Probability - math word problems - page 10 of 24
Probability is the measure of the likeliness that an event will occur. The probability (chance) is a value from the interval <0;1> or in percentage (0% to 100%) expressing the occurrence of some event. 0 is an impossible event, and 1 (100%) means the certainty event.Number of problems found: 464
- Chess pieces
There are five black chess pieces in the box. How many white pieces should we add to this box so that the probability of pulling out a black piece is 1:4? - Probability 49331
There are 1 to 20 start numbers in the draw. What is the probability that the first downhill raffle will draw a start number less than 6? - Right key
The hostel has 4 rooms. The keys to each room are not numbered. Each of the four guests took one key. What is the probability that everyone took the right key? - Probability 49301
Eva and another 199 students took part in job interviews at the Dream School, which accepts only the 120 most successful. What is the probability of its acceptance?
- Poisson distribution - daisies
The meadow behind FLD was divided into 100 equally large parts. Subsequently, it was found that there were no daisies in ten of these parts. Estimate the total number of daisies in the meadow. Assume that daisies are randomly distributed in the meadow. - In PE
In PE, students play a game where they do different exercises depending on the color of marble that Coach Forbes draws. Coach Forbes has a jar with 6 red marbles, 12 blue marbles, 16 purple marbles, two green marbles, and four yellow marbles. What is the - Three sigma rule
The height of trees in a given stand is known to be a quantity with a normal probability distribution with a mean value of 15 m and a variance of 5 m². Determine the interval in which there will be tree heights in such a stand with a probability of 90% - Three subjects
In a class of 40 students, 18 passed mathematics, 19 passed accounting, 16 passed economics, five mathematics and accounting only, six mathematics only, nine accounting only, and two accounting and economics only. Each student was offered at least one of - A machine
A machine produces steel rods of normally distributed length, the mean length and the standard deviation being 50.0 cm and 0.5 cm, respectively. The rods do not conform to safety standards if they are either shorter than 49.1 cm or longer than 50.7 cm in
- A married
A married couple planned to have three children. i. List the possible combinations of the sexes of 3 children. Use B for a boy and G for a girl. ii. Calculate the probability that all three children would be of the same gender - A box
A box contains 6 red, 5 blue, and 4 white balls. Find the probability of drawing a) a red ball and b) a non-white ball. - Disappointed 47411
Five competitors took part in the race. Jaro was disappointed that he didn't win. Before announcing second place, he calculated the probability of finishing second. What number did he get if he counted correctly? - Probability 47373
We were tasked with throwing the dice until we hit the "six." a) Find the average number of throws we will have to make to complete the task. b) How many times do we have to roll the dice so that the probability of falling at least one "six" is at least 9 - Two dice
What is the probability that when the roll of two identical dice is the sum of points 7?
- The dice
Find the probability that a number divisible by two or three will fall when the dice are rolled. - A bag
A bag contains nine blue marbles and one green marble. What is the probability of drawing a blue marble followed by a green marble without replacing the first marble before drawing the second marble? - Double six-six
What is the probability that a player in the games of ludo will throw a double six twice? - We roll
We roll two dice A. - what is the probability that the sum of the falling numbers is at most 4 B. - is at least 10 C. - is divisible by 5? - Twenty
Twenty swallows sit on a 10 m long telephone cable. Assume that swallows are completely randomly distributed along the line. (a) What is the probability that more than three swallows sit on a randomly selected section of cable 1 m long? (b) What is the pr
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