At the College of Warm & Fuzzy, Good Grades in Math

question 40

Essay

At the College of Warm & Fuzzy, good grades in math are very easy to come by. The grade distribution is given in the table below: Suppose three students are to be selected at random. As each is selected their math grades are written down and they are replaced back into the population of students. Three possible outcomes of this experiment are listed below. Calculate the probabilities of these sequences appearing.
a) BAC
b) CFF
c) ABA

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