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A bag contains 8 marbles: 3 red, 3 blue, and 2 green. A game involves drawing marbles without replacement until either two marbles of the same color are drawn consecutively or all marbles are drawn. Let be the number of draws when the game ends.
Find the probability that the first two draws yield marbles of the same color.
Find the probability that the game ends on the third draw due to drawing two consecutive marbles of the same color.
Construct the probability distribution of for , given that the game ends on or before the fourth draw due to drawing two consecutive marbles of the same color.
Calculate the expected value of given this distribution.
A store sells three types of drinks: cola (C), juice (J), and water (W). A survey of 80 customers shows that 45 buy cola, 40 buy juice, 30 buy water, 20 buy both cola and juice, 15 buy both cola and water, 10 buy both juice and water, and 5 buy all three.
Find the probability that a randomly chosen customer buys at least two types of drinks.
Find the expected number of customers buying only juice in a sample of 25 customers.
A box contains 10 marbles: 4 red (R), 3 blue (B), and 3 green (G). Two marbles are drawn randomly without replacement.
Write down the probability that the first marble drawn is red.
Find the probability that the second marble drawn is blue, given that the first marble drawn was green.
Find the probability that both marbles drawn are of the same color.
A bag contains 12 cards labeled with the numbers 1 to 12. Three cards are drawn randomly without replacement.
Find the probability that the first card drawn is even-numbered.
Find the probability that the second card drawn is odd-numbered given that the first card was even-numbered.
Find the probability that all three cards drawn are even-numbered.
A travel agency organizes trips to three destinations: Paris (P), Tokyo (T), and New York (N). A survey of 150 clients shows:
In a raffle, a client receives per destination visited; if they visited none, they pay a fee. Let be the prize amount.
Draw a Venn diagram for the destinations visited.
Show that the number of clients who visited none of the destinations is .
Construct the probability distribution table for .
Calculate the expected value of .
Find the probability that a client visited Tokyo given they visited at least two destinations.