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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3735 on: August 22, 2018, 03:33:36 pm »
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how do you draw a tree diagram for this question



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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3736 on: August 22, 2018, 04:29:02 pm »
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It's your standard tree diagram.
First throw is a branch with 6 options {1,2,3,4,5,6}, and from each of those branch out another 6 options {1,2,3,4,5,6} and from each of THOSE options branch out another 6 options {1,2,3,4,5,6}.
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« Reply #3737 on: August 23, 2018, 11:37:33 am »
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Hello, just needing help on a question re Probability...

30. A set of 20 cards is numbered 1 to 20 with replacement. Find the probability of selecting:
a) all three 10's
b) no 10s
c) at least one 10.

I have done part a) but just can't seem to work out how to do parts b and c...
Any help is appreciated:)
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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3738 on: August 23, 2018, 05:19:11 pm »
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Hello, just needing help on a question re Probability...

30. A set of 20 cards is numbered 1 to 20 with replacement. Find the probability of selecting:
a) all three 10's
b) no 10s
c) at least one 10.

I have done part a) but just can't seem to work out how to do parts b and c...
Any help is appreciated:)
Thanks...
I cannot figure out what this question is asking. What do you mean by the cards being numbered 1 to 20 “with replacement”? You haven’t specified that we’re drawing the cards, let alone how many cards are being drawn.

However, judging by question a), were you meant to have said that “3 cards were being draw with replacement” in there somewhere?

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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3739 on: August 23, 2018, 07:02:58 pm »
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how do you do b for this question





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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3740 on: August 23, 2018, 07:28:27 pm »
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how do you do b for this question
To get any number in each dice is 1/6... in this case you roll 3 dices yea?
The probability of rolling 2 dices is
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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3741 on: August 23, 2018, 07:36:14 pm »
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The answer is 5/72






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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3742 on: August 23, 2018, 07:43:43 pm »
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for this question is the answer for c 3/5



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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3743 on: August 23, 2018, 07:45:37 pm »
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The answer is 5/72
Plug it in the calculator it is 5/72... I don't really know how to do it the 2U way... You basically chose 2 dice to be the value you want out of the 3.. hence 3 choose 2 (look for nCr button in the calculator, press shift then divide to get the c, 3C2)... you power the number of possibility that is 1/6 by two and the remaining that is NOT 2 by 1 in this case
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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3744 on: August 23, 2018, 08:11:40 pm »
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How do you do b for this question



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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3745 on: August 23, 2018, 08:40:58 pm »
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Plug it in the calculator it is 5/72... I don't really know how to do it the 2U way... You basically chose 2 dice to be the value you want out of the 3.. hence 3 choose 2 (look for nCr button in the calculator, press shift then divide to get the c, 3C2)... you power the number of possibility that is 1/6 by two and the remaining that is NOT 2 by 1 in this case
They don't do nCr in 2U mathematics.

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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3746 on: August 23, 2018, 09:09:26 pm »
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how do you do b for this question
Plug it in the calculator it is 5/72... I don't really know how to do it the 2U way... You basically chose 2 dice to be the value you want out of the 3.. hence 3 choose 2 (look for nCr button in the calculator, press shift then divide to get the c, 3C2)... you power the number of possibility that is 1/6 by two and the remaining that is NOT 2 by 1 in this case

The 2U way is to just analyse the chances indivdually.
So you have the chance of rolling a 6 as 1 in 6, the chance of not rolling a 6 is 5 in 6. You need two sixes, and one non-six, so you have
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But the dice that isn't a six can be the first, second or third die, so you have 3 different forms of that, so you multiply that by 3 and you get your 5/72.

for this question is the answer for c 3/5

No, the answer is not 3/5 because you have restrictions on the selections you can place.
If you picked one card, yeah the probability would be 3/5 because you can't pick A & D, but when you pick two cards without replacement, restricting two cards the second selection has a probability of 2/4. tbh you could list out all the possibilities, since there are 20 (10, and their reverses, see which don't have A and/or D) and you'd still get the same answer. FYI the answer is for that is 3/10.

How do you do b for this question
If you've drawn your Venn diagram correctly, you'll have 12 doing music only, 7 doing music and sports, 2 doing nothing and 9 doing sports only.
Since you're picking two different people, its without replacement ie your answer will be
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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3747 on: August 23, 2018, 09:18:10 pm »
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Thanks!

also how do you do this






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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3748 on: August 23, 2018, 10:02:15 pm »
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a) Just the chance of getting two heads and a double six multiplied together.

b) Same sort of thing.

c) Is just asking how likely it is you will score exactly 13.
There are a only a few ways to do this, namely 5,5,3 (or some variant of that) 5,4,4 (or some variant of that). Each of those has 3 variants, including the listed variant.
Essentially it's just this, using the results from before.

d) Is just asking how likely it is you will score 14 or 15.
There are only 2 ways to do this, namely 5,5,4 (or some variant of that) and 5,5,5.

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Re: Mathematics Question Thread
« Reply #3749 on: August 23, 2018, 10:39:42 pm »
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how do you do
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