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Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions

Question 1
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If a fair die is rolled five times, what is the probability that a "6" will appear exactly twice?

Question 2
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A basketball player has a free throw success rate of 70%; what is the probability that she will make at least one free throw out of five attempts?

Question 3
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What's the standard deviation for number of heads when flipping a fair coin ten times?

Question 4
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1 mark

In determining whether a new drug successfully treats more than half its patients, researchers are concerned with Type I error; if they set α\alphaα to be extremely small to protect against this error, what unintended consequence might occur?

Question 5
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1 mark

If a survey consists of five yes-or-no questions, each answered independently, what is the probability that exactly three questions will be answered with yes if the probability of saying yes is each time?

Question 6
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1 mark

A student guesses on each of 20 multiple choice questions with five choices each; what is the probability that the student gets more than 16 correct?

Question 7
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For a basketball player with a free throw success rate of 80%, calculate the likelihood that he makes at most two free throws out of ten attempts.

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Question 8
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1 mark

After implementing a new training program, a team's win probability rises from 50% to 65%, how many games must they play to be highly confident (between two standard deviations above original mean) that improvement is not due to chance?

Question 9
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1 mark

The probability of success in a binomial setting is 0.8. What is the probability of failure?

Question 10
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In a binomial distribution where n = 20 and p = 0.6, approximately what is the probability of having exactly 15 successes?