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    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

    Probability

    If 3 boys and 2 girls are to be arranged in a row, what is the Probability that the first person in the row will be a boy?

    Finding the probability from a given situation.

    In a certain college, 33% of the physics majors belong to ethnic minorities. Find the probability of the event that, from a random sample of 10 students who are physics majors, 2 or less belong to an ethnic minority.

    Find the probability

    At the first tri-city meeting, there were 8 people from town A, 7 people from town B, and 5 people from town C. If the council consists of 5 people, find the probability of 3 from town A and 2 from town B.

    Find the probability of Random Tickets

    The Gray Stone Rock Band will give 10 performances this season.Four of these will be only songs from the 70s. If Tony gets to pick two tickets at random, what is the probability that he will get both 70s tickets?

    Probability and Statistics College Project

    We were supposed to find all these stats on colleges such as # who applied and # who got accepted, then it says to find the mean mode and median for all the info and I don't know what it means...of all five colleges...of just one...can someone help me find these averages please...I'm desperate.

    Resigning Probabilities

    A company finds that on average 20% of all new employees resign during their first year of employment. Find the probability that, among the next 30 employees hired, exactly five will resign during their first year of employment.

    Calculating Probabilities for the Total Discount Rate

    A manufacturer has two plants that produce the same product...Plant A and Plant B...Plant A has 60% of the total production and has a 5% defective rate...Plant B has 40% of the total production with a 7.5% defective rate... 1. What is the total defect rate? I came up with 6%...???? 2. A randomly selected product was defec