At Beth & Mary's Ice Cream Emporium Customers May Choose

question 27

Essay

At Beth & Mary's Ice Cream Emporium customers may choose to sprinkle toppings on their ice cream. The toppings are classified as either candy (C) or fruit (F) toppings. Consider the chance experiment where the choice of toppings--(C) or (F)--is recorded for each of the next two customers who order ice cream.
a)List all the events in the sample space.
b)Using your sample space in part (a), list the outcomes for each of the following events
A = the event that both customers pick candy
B = the event that both customers pick the same type of topping
C = the event that at least one customer picks a candy topping
A:
B:
C:

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Definitions:

Exponentially Distributed

A type of probability distribution that describes the time between events in a process where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.

Random Variable

A variable, the value of which hinges on the happenings related to a chance occurrence.

Exponential Distribution

A probability distribution used to model the time between events in a Poisson process, characterized by its constant rate.

Parameter

A numerical characteristic of a population, such as its mean or standard deviation, that is usually unknown and estimated from sample data.