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A First Course In Probability, 9th Edition, Indian Version, Sheldon Ross, Chapter 3, Problems, 17.
The probability of 2 children to be twins is given as 2% and the probability of them being identical twins is 0.16%. If both genders are equally likely and identical twin...
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A First Course In Probability, 9th Edition, Indian Version, Sheldon Ross, Chapter 3, Problems, 33.
The meteorology department predicts the rain correctly with a probability of 4/5. When rain is predicted Amit travels by his car. When rain is not forecasted, he travels ...
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A First Course In Probability, 9th Edition, Indian Version, Sheldon Ross, Chapter 2, Problems, 18.
A deck consists of 52 playing cards which is well shuffled. Draw 6 cards. Find the probability that among the cards there will be a representative of all suits?can someon...
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Sheldon Ross Chapter-2 Question-15b
If it is assumed that all $\binom{52}{5}$ poker hands are equally likely, what is the probability of being dealt two pairs? (This occurs when the cards have denominations...
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Sheldon Ross Example-5n
Compute the probability that if 10 married couples are seated at random at a round table, then no wife sits next to her husband1 wife sits next to her husband. pick one o...
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Sheldon Ross, Chapter# 4 RANDOM VARIABLES, Q.51 (9th edition page#167)
If a student copies his assignments from his friend he would get 80 marks. If he had done the assignments independently he would have scored 50 marks out of 100 and if th...
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A FIRST COURSE IN PROBABILITY (SHELDON ROSS),CHAPTER 4 RANDOM VARIABLES, QUESTION#43
A carnival swing ride swings to the left with probability 0.4 and to the right with probability. If the ride stops after 10 swings, what is the probability that it is exa...
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Sheldon Ross, Chapter #4, Question #13
An airline operates a flight having 50 seats. As they expect some passenger to not show up, they overbook the flight by selling 51 tickets. The probability that an indivi...
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A first course in probability by Sheldon Ross
What are the relevant chapter of probability by sheldon ross to study for gate?I think whole syllabus is within chapter 5,Should i study everything upto chapter 5 or ther...
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SHELDON AND ROSS
Twelve percent of all US households are in California. A total of 3.3 percent of all US households earn over 250000 per year, while a total of 6.3 percent California hous...
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Expected length Sheldon Ross
This is an example in the book (A First Course in Probability by Sheldon Ross).A stick of length 1 is split at a point U that is uniformly distributed over (0,1). Determi...
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Probability-Sheldon Ross(Self Doubt)
I was reading probability from Sheldon Ross and found below example.A purchaser of electrical components buys them in lots of size 10. It is his policy to inspect 3 compo...
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Probability-Sheldon Ross
An ordinary deck of 52 playing cards is randomly divided into 4 piles of 13 cards each. Compute the probability that each pile has exactly 1 ace.
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Sheldon ross -Conditional probability
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A First Course in Probability 8th Edition: Axioms of Probability Example 5k
The question in the book is as follows:A football team consist s of 20 offensive and 20 defensive players. The players are to be paired in groups of 2 for the purpose of ...
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Sheldon Ross- A first course in Probability
An urn contains 6 white and 9 black balls. If 4 balls are to be randomly selected without replacement, what is the probability that the first 2 selected are white and the...
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Sheldon Ross 3.13
Balls are randomly removed from an urn that initially contains 20 red and 10 blue balls.(a) What is the probability that all of the red balls are removed before all of th...
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Sheldon Ross
From 10 married couples, we want to select group of 6 that is not allowed to contain a married couple. How many choices are there?
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Sheldon Ross
Prove$\binom{m+n}{r}$ = $\binom{n}{0}\binom{m}{r}+\binom{n}{1}\binom{m}{r-1}+... +\binom{n}{r}\binom{m}{0}$
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Determine the number of vectors $\{x_{1}...x_{n}\}$, such that each $x_{i}$ is either $0$ or $1$ and$\displaystyle{\sum_{i=1}^{n}x_{i}\geq k}$
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Sheldon Ross Normal Variable
In the below question my query is for (a) partWhen we are calculating $P\left \{ \frac{-1}{3}< Z< \frac{2}{3} \right \}$I know that the normal variable X is converted to ...
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Sheldon Ross Example 3.7f
A plane is missing and it is presumed that it was equally likely to havegone down in any of three possible regions. Let 1 − αi denote the probability the planewill be fou...
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