Determining the probability from a given situation.

For a certain animal species, the probability that a female will have a certain number of offspring in a given year is given in the table below. Find the expected number of offspring per year. Number of Offspring: 0 Probability: 0.31 Number of Offspring: 1 Probability: 0.21 Number of Offspring: 2 Probability: 0.19 ...continues

Determining the probability from a given dice situation.

What is the probability that the roll of a die will show a number less than 3?

Probability from a given poker game situation.

Find the probability of drawing a straight flush in poker. A straight flush is 5 in a row in a single suit, but not a royal flush.

Probability from a given dice situation.

Find the probability that a "two" will appear on the 6th roll of a single fair die.

Probability from a given playing card situation.

If one card is drawn from a standard 52-card deck, find the probability of drawing a red ace.

Lottery probability

A lottery game contains 29 balls numbered 1 through 29. What is the probability of choosing a ball numbered 30?

Probability

Suppose 6 people sit at a circular table. Find the probability that 2 particular people are sitting next to each other.

Probability genes

Assume that a trait is determined by a single pair of genes where one allele is dominant and the other is recessive. In a population, 30% of the females are pure dominant, 60% are hybrid, and 10% are pure recessive. If a pure recessive male mates with a random female and their first offspring has the dominant trait, what is th ...continues

Card probability

In a 2-card hand, what is the probability of holding only face cards? (Aces are not face cards)

Determining the probability from a given situation.

Find that probability that a battery will be found to be defective, given that the defective rate of the batteries is 0.03.