SOCR EduMaterials Activities Discrete Probability examples
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- Description: You can access the applets for the distributions at http://www.socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Distributions.html .
- Example 1:
Find the probability that 3 out of 8 plants will survive a frost, given that any such plant will survive a frost with probability of 0.30. Also, find the probability that at least 1 out of 8 will survive a frost. What is the expected value and standard deviation of the number of plants that survive the frost?
- Answer:
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Below you can see SOCR snapshots for this example:
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- Example 2:
If the probabilities of having a male or female offspring are both 0.50, find the probability that a familiy's fifth child is their first son.
- Answer:
- P(X = 5) = 0.505 = 0.03125
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- Example 3:
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- Example 4:
- P(X = 5) = 0.740.3 = 0.07203 where X represents the number of trials.
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- Example 5:
- Example 6:
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- b. P(X = 0) = .001,0.001 = 0.1nn = 3In the first snapshot below, n=2, and P(X\ge1)=0.99, which is too small. In the second snapshot, we can see that when n is increased to 3, P(X\ge1) increases to nearly 1.
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- Example 7: