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xers

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Some probability questions i need help with
« on: October 10, 2008, 07:14:37 pm »
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I don't remember exactly word for word but this is roughly how the question is:

Tom works at a coffee shop and he notices that of 10 customers who come into the shop, 4 would not use sugar at all, 3 would use 1 sachet of sugar, 2 would use 2, and 1 would use 3.

a. What is the probability that of the next 3 customers who come in, a total of 2 sachets of sugar are used.
b. The weight of the sugar sachets is normally distributed with a mean of 5.2g and sd of 0.1 g, what is the probability that a customer will use exactly 1 sachet of sugar that weighs under 5g?
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Re: Some probability questions i need help with
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2008, 07:45:10 pm »
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a. There are six possibilities:

200, 020, 002
110, 101, 011





b. The successful possibilities:

1. The customer uses 1 sachet, which happens to weigh under 5g.
2. The customer uses 2 sachets, one of which happens to weigh under 5g.
3. The customer uses 3 sachets, one of which happens to weigh under 5g.

Let be a normally distributed random variable with .



Evaluate that any way you like. If it is technology free, use the fact that

Hence,

Now, the probability of each branch (1 to 3) are:







« Last Edit: October 10, 2008, 07:52:54 pm by coblin »