6. If someone randomly chose there entrée and side, what is the probability they are/not having a mashed potatoes?

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**Probability Example #2:**

At a restaurant, you get to choose an entrée and a side for your meal. Your entrée choices are fried chicken, beef roast, grilled fish, or vegetable pasta. Your side choices are mashed potatoes, wild rice, or a salad.

1. **How many possible entrée and side combinations do you have to choose from?**
   - Total combinations: 12 (as calculated: 4 entrées x 3 sides)

2. **List the sample space of all possible meal combinations:**
   - Grilled Fish, Mashed Potatoes
   - Grilled Fish, Wild Rice
   - Grilled Fish, Salad
   - Beef Roast, Mashed Potatoes
   - Beef Roast, Wild Rice
   - Beef Roast, Salad
   - Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes
   - Fried Chicken, Wild Rice
   - Fried Chicken, Salad
   - Veggie Pasta, Mashed Potatoes
   - Veggie Pasta, Wild Rice
   - Veggie Pasta, Salad

3. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are having grilled fish and wild rice?**
   - Probability: \( \frac{1}{12} \)

4. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are having fried chicken as their entrée?**
   - Probability: \( \frac{4}{12} = 0.3333 \)

5. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are having beef roast or a salad?**
   - Probability for beef roast or salad: \( \frac{7}{12} = 0.5833 \)

6. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are not having mashed potatoes?**
   - Probability: Calculation needed. 

This example helps illustrate basic probability concepts using a real-world problem involving meal choices.
Transcribed Image Text:**Probability Example #2:** At a restaurant, you get to choose an entrée and a side for your meal. Your entrée choices are fried chicken, beef roast, grilled fish, or vegetable pasta. Your side choices are mashed potatoes, wild rice, or a salad. 1. **How many possible entrée and side combinations do you have to choose from?** - Total combinations: 12 (as calculated: 4 entrées x 3 sides) 2. **List the sample space of all possible meal combinations:** - Grilled Fish, Mashed Potatoes - Grilled Fish, Wild Rice - Grilled Fish, Salad - Beef Roast, Mashed Potatoes - Beef Roast, Wild Rice - Beef Roast, Salad - Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes - Fried Chicken, Wild Rice - Fried Chicken, Salad - Veggie Pasta, Mashed Potatoes - Veggie Pasta, Wild Rice - Veggie Pasta, Salad 3. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are having grilled fish and wild rice?** - Probability: \( \frac{1}{12} \) 4. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are having fried chicken as their entrée?** - Probability: \( \frac{4}{12} = 0.3333 \) 5. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are having beef roast or a salad?** - Probability for beef roast or salad: \( \frac{7}{12} = 0.5833 \) 6. **If someone randomly chooses their entrée and side, what is the probability they are not having mashed potatoes?** - Probability: Calculation needed. This example helps illustrate basic probability concepts using a real-world problem involving meal choices.
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Combination:

Combination is nothing but the number of ways to choose r distinct objects from n(>r) distinct objects such that the sequence in which a selection is made does not matter. It is given by the formula nr=n!(n-r)!r!.

Probability:

For any event A, the classical definition of probability defines the probability of its occurrence, denoted by P(A), as the ratio n(A)N, where N denotes the number of elementary events in the sample space and n(A) denotes the number of elementary events favorable to event A.

 

 

 

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