HW2. MA 3160. Due 09/13

Exercise 1. Suppose that A and B are pairwise disjoint events for which P(A) = 0.3 and P(B) = 0.5.

  1.   What is the probability that B occurs but A does not?
  2.   What is the probability that neither A nor B occurs?

Exercise 2. Forty percent of the students at a certain college are members neither of an academic club nor a Greek organization. Fifty percent are members of an academic club and thirty percent are members of a Greek organization. What is the probability that a randomly chosen student is

  1.  member of an academic club or a Greek organization?
  2.  member of an academic club and of a Greek organization?

Exercise 3. In a seminar attended by 14 students, what is the probability that at least two of them have birthday in the same month?

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