Midterm 1 practice, Math 170a - Lec 3, Fall 2012 Instructor: Toni Antunovi c c Name and student ID:

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1. (a) (6 points) If = A B, P(A B c ) = 0.6, P(Ac B) = 0.2 nd the probabilities of A and B.

(b) (6 points) A palindrome is a word which is symmetric (it is read equally in either direction, either from left to right or from right to left). Find the number of 5-letter palindromes you can form with letters in the English alphabet (there are 26 letters in the English alphabet and you can use any letter as many times as you want).

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2. (10 points) Eleven cards are on the desk face down. Five of them have number 1 written on them, three of them have number 2 written, three of them number 3. You are told to select a card at random and look at the number on this card. Then you select that many cards at random from the cards which are left over. What is the probability that none of the cards are equal to 3? Simplify your answer.

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3. (10 points) It is known that 40% of all laptop issues are related screen problems, 30% to hard drive problems and 30% to other problems (we assume that the issue cant be related to more than cause - for example you cant have both screen and hard drive problem). Since the prices of repairs vary according to the problem, customers dont always send their laptop for repair. It is estimated that if a customer has screen problem (s)he sends the laptop to repair store with probability 0.3, if the problem is with the hard drive with probability 0.8, and for other problems with probability 0.4. If a laptop is sent to your repair store, what is the probability the issue is related to a screen problem. Simplify your answer.

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4. (10 points) You roll two standard fair dice independently. The dice are dierent, one is red and the other is blue. Describe the sample space for this experiment. Show that the the following three events are independent: A = {The numbers that came up are equal} B = {The number on the red one is 1, 2, or 3} C = {The sum of the numbers is divisible by 3}.

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5. (a) (2 points) If A and B are independent events write down the probability P(A B) in terms of P(A) and P(B).

(b) (2 points) If is a sample space what is P()?

(c) (2 points) If A is an event with a strictly positive probability what is P(A|A)?

(d) (2 points) In how many ways can one choose a k-element subset of a set with n elements?

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