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MAT 1460- Homework Section 8.3 Support your answer by showing your work. 1. An e

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Question

MAT 1460- Homework Section 8.3 Support your answer by showing your work. 1. An experiment consists of tossing a coin and picking a day of the week. Write the sample space of the experiment. 2. Greg is painting a room. He can use either a flat or semi-gloss paint. he can choose either a grey, purple, or blue color. For each type of paint, a) Write out the sample space. b) What is the probability that he picks a c) What is the probability that he picks a grey color or semi-gloss paint? flat paint? 3. A jelly bean is randomly taken from a bag that contains 5 red, 9 white, and 2 blue jelly beans. Find the probability of the following: a) The jelly bean is blue. b) The jelly bean is not red. c) The jelly bean is red or blue. d) The jelly bean is neither red nor blue.

Explanation / Answer

As per the Chegg policy, we are advised to do one question at a time so i am attempting the 1st one.

1. Let H represents Head, T represents Tail, M for Monday, Tu for Tuesday, W for Wednesday, Th for Thursday, F for Friday, S for Saturday and Su for Sunday.

Sample space for tossing a coin and picking a day of the week will be:

{(H,M), (H, Tu), (H, W), (H, Th), (H, F), (H, S), (H, Su), (T,M), (T, Tu), (T, W), (T, Th), (T, F), (T, S), (T, Su)}