Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780321997838
Author: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 69CP
Choices for lunch For the set lunch at Amelia’s Restaurant, customers can select one meat dish, one vegetable, one beverage, and one dessert. The menu offers two meats (beef and chicken), three vegetables (corn, green beans, or potatoes), three beverages (cola, ice tea, or coffee), and one dessert (Amelia’s apple pie).
- a. Use a tree diagram to list the possible meals and to determine how many there are.
- b. In practice, would it be sensible to treat all the outcomes in the
sample space as equally likely for the customer selections we’d observe? Why or why not?
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