Statistics
By: Isabella Hagen
Definitions:
-Independent Event: Is when one event has no effect on the other event.
-Dependent Event: Is when the outcome of first event effects the outcome of the second event.
Examples:
-Independent Events:
- You flip a coin and get heads and you flip a second coin and get tails.
- The probability of a pop quiz today and the probability of rain today.
- The chance that you are hungry and the chance that you are eating right now.
- You draw a black card from a deck of cards and then draw a second black card without replacing the first card.
Example Problems:
-Independent Event:
- At a high school, 50% of students are on the honor roll and 10% of students have a part time job. If one student is selected at random, find P(honor roll and part time job).
- To solve this problem you would multiply 50/100 by 10/100 to get 500/1000 or 1/2. So your answer to this problem is 1/2.
- A box contains 3 red buttons and 7 blue buttons. What is the probability of drawing 2 red buttons and 3 blue buttons in succession, if you so not replace the buttons after they are drawn.
- To solve this problem you would multiply 3/10*2/9*6/8*5/7*4/6 to get 720/30240 or 1/42. So your answer to this problem is 1/42.