STA104/MTH135: Probability

Homework #1: Intro & Combinatorial Analysis

Due: Thursday, Sep 7

Text Problems are from Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability (5th edn).

• Problems (pp. 16ff)
  

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• Exercises (pp. 19ff)

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• Another Problem
  Congratulations! Your new job is monitoring spills from two North Carolina hog farms (Ackerby Farms and Baker Hog Works) and two municipal water treatment plants (Cabarrus County and Durham County). Each of these might experience a spill, or might not, in 1997. We will treat these as random events.
  1. Give a Sample Space with each of the possible outcomes. How many possible outcomes are there?
  2. Does an equally-likely probability assignment seem appropriate? Why or why not?

Good Luck!