Essay
Job Applicants Narrative
Five applicants apply for two jobs. Applicants A and B are male; applicants C, D, and E are female. The personnel officer selects two applicants at random to fill the two jobs.
-A sample space S consists of five simple events with the following probabilities:
P( ) = P(
) = 0.20, P(
) = 0.45, and P(
) = 2P(
).
a. Find the probabilities for simple events and
.
b. Find the probabilities for these two events: A: ,
,
and B:
,
.
c. List the simple events that are in either event A or event B or both.
d. List the simple events that are in both event A and event B.
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, then P(
) + P(
) = 1 - (0....View Answer
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