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Probability
The probability of a certain event is a number expressing the likelihood that a specific event will occur, expressed as the ratio of the number of actual occurrences to the number of possible occurrences. In mathematics, it is a measure of how often an event will happen and is the basis of statistics.
14,643 Questions
Describe using word the probability of winning the the lottery?
The probability of winning a lottery depends on the lottery. The probability of winning the jackpot is extremely small, though the probability of winning something is not quite as tiny.
The probability is: 55/200 or 11/40
Why cannot a probability not be less than 0?
0 means there is no chance of something happening. You cannot have less than no chance of something happening. So a probability cannot be less than 0.
What is the probability of being dealt the two of spades?
The answer depends on how many cards you are dealt!
Which steps occurs last in the initiation phase of translation?
The large ribosomal subunit joins the complex.
How many ways can a jury of 7 men and 4 women be selected from 11 men and 16 women?
600600
First, find how many different combinations of men can there be, which is 330; and how many different combinations of women can there be, which is 1820.
Then, multiply them together and you get 600600
What is the probability of getting number three when you toss a cube of 1 through 6?
1/6 or (16 and 2/3)%
What is the probability of a vowel being picked at randoms from the word probability?
The word 'probability' has 11 letters and 5 of them are vowels (including the 'y'). Therefore the probability of picking a vowel is 5/11.
A random variable that is 2.5 times the standard error less than the mean.
What is the probability of selecting a black card?
total cards=52
balck cards=26
So
P(Black)=total balck/total cards
P(Black)=26/52=1/2
There is only one even number over 4, which is 6, so when rolling the number cube, the chances of it coming up are 1/6.
Is it possible to grow from 5 ft 8 in to 6 ft or even 6 ft 2 in?
I know lots of people who are over 6ft tall and I'm pretty sure they were 5' 8" at some point...
What does probability of paternity means?
Probability of paternity (POP) means how likely the man is to be the father. If the result is a 99% (or anything over 64, haha) POP I would say that he's the daddy.
What does probability have to do with heredity?
There is a chance of what u will recieve from ur parents genes.
When may the sampling distribution of x̅ be considered to be approximately normal?
the standard deviation of the population(sigma)/square root of sampling mean(n)
What is the probability of rain 5 percent?
It means there is a 5% chance of rain for the given day. If you were presented with 100 days of equivalent conditions, you would expect it to rain for 5 of them
8 nPr 2
= 56%
What is the probability of rolling an even number on a number cube labeled 1 through 6?
1/2 - you have a 50-50 chance of rolling an even number (or an odd number for that matter !)
What is the probability of rolling an even number or prime number on a number cube?
The probability of rolling an even number on a die is 3 in 6 or 1 in 2. The probability of rolling a prime on a die is 3 in 6 or 1 in 2, but one of those primes is also even. Simply add the probabilities and you find that the probability of rolling an even number or a prime on a die is 5 in 6.
How many ways to arrange abcdef?
Any 6 different items can be arranged in 6! (6 factorial) ways.
6! = 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 720.
