document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=295226>Question 295226</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> This is probability and I just don't get it.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A box contains 8 blue cards, 4 yellow and 2 pink.  2 cards are taken at random from the box, one at a time and then put back.  Find each probability:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1. blue, then pink<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2. yellow, then blue<BR>\n" );
document.write( "3.yellow, then pink<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4. pink, then yellow<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5. blue, then yellow<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6. pink, then blue<BR>\n" );
document.write( "7. both yellow<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8. both blue\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thanks!!! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "A box contains 8 blue cards, 4 yellow and 2 pink. 2 cards are taken at random from the box, one at a time and then put back. Find each probability:<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since you are placing the 1st draw results, the probabilites<BR>\n" );
document.write( "of the separate draws are independent. (That means the 2nd <BR>\n" );
document.write( "draw results don't depend on what happens in the 1st draw.)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1. P(blue, then pink) = P(blue)*P(pink) = (8/16)(2/16) = 1/2*1/8 = 1/16<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2. P(yellow, then blue) = P(yellow)*P(blue) = (4/16)(8/16) = (1/4)(1/2) = 1/8<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Can you do the rest?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3.yellow, then pink<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4. pink, then yellow<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5. blue, then yellow<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6. pink, then blue<BR>\n" );
document.write( "7. both yellow<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8. both blue<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H.<BR>\n" );
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