SOLUTION: Please help! i keep getting the wrong answer. i seriously dont understand Three daily newspapers are published in a large city. Suppose we have the following facts about the peop

Question 677478: Please help! i keep getting the wrong answer. i seriously dont understand
Three daily newspapers are published in a large city. Suppose we have the following facts about the people in the city:

40% read Newspaper A.
36% read Newspaper C.
61% read Newspaper A or Newspaper B.
14% read Newspaper A and B.
9% read Newspaper A and C.
15% read Newspaper B and C.
3% read all three newspapers.
(a) We randomly select one person in the city. The outcome of interest is which (if any) of the newspapers the person reads. How many outcomes are contained in the sample space?
(b) If we randomly select a person in the city, what is the probability that she reads Newspaper A or Newspaper C?
(c) If we randomly select a person in the city, what is the probability that she reads Newspaper B?
(d) Without doing any calculations, what is the probability that a person reads Newspaper A if we know she reads Newspaper B?
(e) What is the probability that a randomly selected person reads Newspaper C but not Newspaper B?
(f) What is the probability that a randomly selected person reads Newspaper C if we know she does not read Newspaper B?
(g) What is the probability that a randomly selected person reads exactly two of the three newspapers?
(h) What is the probability that a person reads Newspaper A if we know she reads Newspaper C?
(i) If we randomly select seven people in the city, what is the probability that exactly four of them read Newspaper A?
(j) If we randomly select ten people in the city, what is the probability that at least two of them read Newspaper C?
Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Make a 3 circle Venn diagram to understand this. 24% don't read any of the 3 newspapers.
a)8
b)(.20+.11)+(.15+.12)=.58
c).09+.11+.03+.12=.35
d).14
e).15+.06=.21
f)
1.00-.35=.65 don't read B
(.15+.06)/65 = 21/65
g).11+.12+.06=.29
h)(.06+.03)/.36 = 9/36 = 1/4
i)
x=.4, y=.6
7C4*x^4y^3 Binomial formula for exactly 4 of 7.
=35*.00553
=.1935
j)
x=.36, y=.64
y^10+10y^9x Binomial formula for all don't read plus only one reads C.
=.0115+.0649
=.0764
1-.0764=.9236 the probability that at least two of them read Newspaper C.
.
Ed

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