Problem 1MS: Black or white? Your friend chooses his sartorial color scheme by putting all of his black and white... Problem 2MS: Eleven cents. You have a dime and a penny. Flip them both, noting whether each coin lands heads up... Problem 3MS: Yummm. You have a small bag of candy-coated chocolates that melt in your mouth; three are red, four... Problem 4MS: Rubber duckies. A game at a carnival has 75 rubber ducks floating in water. The ducks are numbered 1... Problem 5MS: Legally large. What does the Law of Large Numbers assert? Problem 6MS: Lincoln takes a hit. On your wall is a poster containing equal-sized pictures of each of the... Problem 7MS: Giving orders. Order the following events in tenns of likelihood. Start with the least likely event... Problem 8MS: Two heads are better. Simultaneously flip a dime and a quarter. If you see two tails, ignore that... Problem 9MS: Tacky probabilities. Before doing the following experiment, think a bit, and then guess the... Problem 10MS: BURGER AND STARBIRD. Suppose you randomly select a letter from BURGER AND STARBIRD. Imagine writing... Problem 11MS: Monty Hall. Read and rework the Lets Make a Deal scenario from Chapter 1, Fun and Games. Work... Problem 12MS: 7 or 11 (S). What is the probability of rollign a sum of 7 or 11with two fair dice? Problem 13MS: D and D. You simultaneously flip a dime and roll a die. Make a table of all the possible outcomes.... Problem 14MS: The top 10 (ExH). Suppose you have 10 marbles. They are marked with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6,... Problem 15MS: One five and dime (II). Someone simultaneously flips a penny, a nickel, and a dime. Make a list of... Problem 16MS: Five flip. Someone flips five coins, but you dont see the outcome. The pers on reports that no tails... Problem 17MS: Flipped out. We take a coin and flip it 10,000,000 times (okay, we have a lot of time on our hands).... Problem 18MS: Spinning wheel. A roulette wheel has 36 spaces marked from 1 to 36, half of which are marked red and... Problem 19MS: December 9. Choose two people at random. What is the probability that they were both born on Decmber... Problem 20MS: High roller (H). Using two fair dice, what is the prbability of rolling a sum that exceeds 4? Problem 21MS: Double dice. You roll two fair dice. What is the probability you will roll a double (two 1s, two 2s,... Problem 22MS: Sifly puzzle. After a professor explains the Birthday Question to her class of 20, she points out... Problem 23MS: Just do it. Find groups of roughly 35 people together (in a class, dorm, or dining hail) and have... Problem 24MS: No matches (S). Suppose 40 people are in a room. What is the probability that no two people share... Problem 25MS: Spinner winner. If you were to spin the wheel illustrated to the right, it is equally likely to stop... Problem 26MS: Flip side (S). Someone flips three coins behind a screen and says, I flipped at least two heads.... Problem 27MS: Other flip side. Someone flips three coins behind a screen and says, I didnt flip all tails. What is... Problem 28MS: Blackjack. From a regular deck of 52 playing cards, you turn over a 5 and then a 6. What is the... Problem 29MS: Be rational (ExH). Suppose someone has randomly selected two numbers from the set of the first one... Problem 30MS: Well red (H). Someone shows you three cards. One is red on both sides, another is blue on both... Problem 31MS: Regular dice. Dungeons and Dragons players use dice in the shape of each of the regular solids (see... Problem 32MS: Take your seat. You decide to fly to California on EconoJet Airlines. You are randomly assigned a... Problem 33MS: Eight flips. What is the probability of flipping a half dollar eight times and a head appearing at... Problem 34MS: Lottery (S). The lottery in an extremely small state consists of picking two different numbers from... Problem 35MS: Making the grade. What is wrong with the following statement? The way I figure, the probability I... Problem 37MS: Dont squeeze. Five shoppers buy Charmin toilet paper. One Charmin out of 10 in this batch is... Problem 38MS: Birthday cards. Using a regular deck of 52 playing cards, select a card at rand om, record it, and... Problem 39MS: Too many boys. Long, long ago and far, far away, an emperor believed that there were too, too many... Problem 40MS: Three paradox (H). The correct probability of tossing three coins and having all three landing the... Problem 45MS: Whats the big event? The section defines the probability of the event E as follows. If T equals the... Problem 46MS: Tallying totals. For each given probability below, find the total number of outcomes T.... Problem 47MS: Algebra roulette. Your math instructor has created a special roulette wheel. It has 32 spaces marked... Problem 48MS: Probability beans. The jellybean jar on your math instructors desk has 60 jellybeans in it — each... Problem 49MS: Picking up the tab (H). Ed and Mike go out to lunch and decide to roll dice to determine who will... format_list_bulleted