“My favorite fast-food restaurant sponsored a scratch-off bingo game. The odds in favor of winning a free order of fries was 3:47. Guess what? I won a free order of fries!” Compute the probability that the event described happened by chance.

“My favorite fast-food restaurant sponsored a scratch-off bingo game. The odds in favor of winning a free order of fries was 3:47. Guess what? I won a free order of fries!” Compute the probability that the event described happened by chance.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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“My favorite fast-food restaurant sponsored a scratch-off bingo
game. The odds in favor of winning a free order of fries was 3:47. Guess
what? I won a free order of fries!”
Compute the probability that the event described happened by chance.

“I didn’t study for my statistics quiz, so I randomly guessed on
three multiple-choice questions with five choices each and two True-False
questions. I got 100%”
Compute the probability that the event described happened by chance.
You decide that if the probability of an event occurring by random chance is
less than 0.05 to disbelieve Riddley. Mind you, choosing not to disbelieve
him does not mean that you believe him. It just means that there’s some
middle ground for “maybe, maybe not.”
Which of Riddley’s claims do we flat-out disbelieve?

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