review questions Stats

neighbor has bought a lottery ticket once a week for the last 10 years, chance of winning on next ticket he buys is _____ the first one he ever bought

the same as

The property which states that for independent? trials, as the number of trials? increases, the long run relative frequency of an outcome gets closer to the true probability is called the ? __________.

law of large numbers

Every? morning, my neighbor goes out walking. I observe that? 20% of the time she walks with her? beagle, 70% of the time she walks with her golden? retriever, and? 30% of the time she walks alone. If these events are all? disjoint, is this an example of

this is not a valid probability distribution

Yogi Berra has? said, "Baseball is? 90% mental. The other half is? physical." Is this a valid probability? distribution?

no, would be over 100%

There is a traffic light at College and Main. It is known that ?P(green)equals0.35. Is there enough information to find? P(red)?

no

You wake up from a nightmare in which? you've completely forgotten about the final exam in your stats class. Since you? haven't studied, you estimate that there is an? 80% chance of answering any individual problem correctly. Determine the chance that you

20%

You wake up from a nightmare in which? you've completely forgotten about the final exam in your stats class. Since you? haven't studied, you estimate that there is an? 80% chance of answering any individual problem correctly. The test is 5 questions long.

0.2 times 0.2 times 0.2 times 0.2 times 0.2

When I feed my parrot breakfast in the? morning, he either grunts happily and eats? it, screams petulantly and eats? it, or screams and flings it out of the cage. These events are disjoint. Are they also? independent?

no