Probability

1. Probability What Are the Chances?

2. The Basics of Probability Theory 13.1 • Calculate probabilities by counting outcomes in a sample space. • Use counting formulas to compute probabilities. • Understand the relationship between probability and odds.

3. Sample Space and Events Random phenomenaare occurrences that vary from day-to-day and case-to-case. Although we never know exactly how a random phenomenon will turn out, we can often calculate a number called a probabilitythat it will occur in a certain way.

4. Sample Space and Events • Example: Determine a sample space for the experiment of selecting an iPhone from a production line and determining whether it is defective. • Solution: This sample space is • {defective, nondefective}.

5. Sample Space and Events • Example: Determine the sample space for the experiment. • Three children are born to a family and • we note the birth order with respect to gender. (continued on next slide)

6. Sample Space and Events • Solution: We use the tree diagram to find the sample space: • {bbb, bbg, bgb, bgg, gbb, gbg, ggb, ggg}.

7. Sample Space and Events • Example: Determine the sample space for the experiment. • We roll two dice and observe the pair of numbers showing on the top faces.

8. Sample Space and Events • Example: Determine the sample space for the experiment. • We roll two dice and observe the pair of numbers showing on the top faces. • Solution: The solution space consists of the 36 listed pairs.

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10. Sample Space and Events • Example: Write each event as a subset of the sample space. a) A head occurs when we flip a single coin. b) Two girls and one boy are born to a family. c) A sum of five occurs on a pair of dice.

11. Sample Space and Events • Example: Write each event as a subset of the sample space. a) A head occurs when we flip a single coin. b) Two girls and one boy are born to a family. c) A sum of five occurs on a pair of dice. • Solution: a) The set {head} is the event. b) The event is {bgg, gbg, ggb}. c) The event is {(1, 4), (2, 3), (3, 2), (4, 1)}.

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13. Sample Space and Events • Example: A pharmaceutical company is testing a new drug. The company injected 100 patients and obtained the information shown. Based on the table, if a person is injected with this drug, what is the probability that the patient will develop severe side effects? (continued on next slide)

14. Sample Space and Events • Solution: We obtain the following probability based on previous observations.

15. Sample Space and Events • Example: The table summarizes the marital status of men and women (in thousands) in the United States in 2006. If we randomly pick a male, what is the probability that he is divorced? (continued on next slide)

16. Sample Space and Events • Solution: We are only interested in males, so we consider our sample space to be the • 60,955 + 2,908 + 10,818 + 2,210 + 39,435 = 116,326 males. • The event, call it D, is the set of 10,818 men who are divorced. Therefore, the probability that we would select a divorced male is

17. Counting and Probability Probabilities may based on empirical information. For example, the result of experimental data. Probabilities may based on theoretical information, namely, combination formulas.

18. Counting and Probability • Example: We flip three fair coins. What is the probability of each outcome in this sample space?

19. Counting and Probability • Example: We flip three fair coins. What is the probability of each outcome in this sample space? • Solution: Eight equally likely outcomes are shown below. Each has a probability of .

20. Counting and Probability • Example: We draw a 5-card hand randomly from a standard 52-card deck. What is the probability that we draw one particular hand?

21. Counting and Probability • Example: We draw a 5-card hand randomly from a standard 52-card deck. What is the probability that we draw one particular hand? • Solution: In Chapter 13, we found that there are C(52, 5) = 2,598,960 different ways to choose 5 cards from a deck of 52. Each hand has the same chance of being drawn, so the probability of any particular hand is

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24. Counting and Probability • Example: What is the probability in a family with three children that two of the children are girls?

25. Counting and Probability • Example: What is the probability in a family with three children that two of the children are girls? • Solution: We saw earlier that there are eight outcomes in this sample space. We denote the event that two of the children are girls by the set G = {bgg, gbg, ggb}.

26. Counting and Probability • Example: What is the probability that a total of four shows when we roll two fair dice?

27. Counting and Probability • Example: What is the probability that a total of four shows when we roll two fair dice? • Solution: The sample space for rolling two dice has 36 ordered pairs of numbers. We will represent the event “rolling a four” by F. Then F = {(1, 3), (2, 2), (3, 1)}.

28. Counting and Probability • Example: If we draw a 5-card hand from a standard 52-card deck, what is the probability that all 5 cards are hearts?

29. Counting and Probability • Example: If we draw a 5-card hand from a standard 52-card deck, what is the probability that all 5 cards are hearts? • Solution: We know that there are C(52, 5) ways to select a 5-card hand from a 52-card deck. If we want to draw only hearts, then we are selecting 5 hearts from the 13 available, which can be done in C(13, 5) ways.

30. Counting and Probability • Example: Four friends belong to a 10-member club. Two members of the club will be chosen to attend a conference. What is the probability that two of the four friends will be selected?

31. Counting and Probability • Example: Four friends belong to a 10-member club. Two members of the club will be chosen to attend a conference. What is the probability that two of the four friends will be selected? • Solution: We can choose 2 of the 10 members in • Event E, choosing 2 of the 4 friends, can be done in C(4, 2) = 6 ways.

32. Odds • Example: A roulette wheel has 38 equal-size compartments. Thirty-six of the compartments are numbered 1 to 36 with half of them colored red and the other half black. The remaining 2 compartments are green and numbered 0 and 00. A small ball is placed on the spinning wheel and when the wheel stops, the ball rests in one of the compartments. What are the odds against the ball landing on red? (continued on next slide)

33. Odds • Example: A roulette wheel has 38 equal-size compartments. Thirty-six of the compartments are numbered 1 to 36 with half of them colored red and the other half black. The remaining 2 compartments are green and numbered 0 and 00. A small ball is placed on the spinning wheel and when the wheel stops, the ball rests in one of the compartments. What are the odds against the ball landing on red? (continued on next slide)

34. Odds • Solution: • There are 38 equally likely outcomes. 18 are in favor of the event “the ball lands on red” and 20 are against the event. • The odds against red are 20 to 18 or 20:18, which we reduce to 10:9.

35. Odds If the probability of E is 0.3, then the odds against E are We may write this as 70:30 or 7:3.

36. Odds • Example: If the probability of Green Bay winning the Super Bowl is 0.35. What are the odds against Green Bay winning the Super Bowl?

37. Odds • Example: If the probability of Green Bay winning the Super Bowl is 0.35. What are the odds against Green Bay winning the Super Bowl? • Solution: From the diagram we compute • That is, the odds against are 13 to 7.

38. Odds • Example:What is the probability a total of nine shows when we roll two fair dice? What is the odds against the given event?

39. Odds • What is the probability a total of nine shows when we roll two fair dice? What is the odds against the given event?

40. Odds • Example:What is the probability we draw a heart when we select 1 card randomly from a standard 52 card deck? What is the odd against drawing a heart?

41. Odds • What is the probability we draw a heart when we select 1 card randomly from a standard 52 card deck? What is the odd against drawing a heart?