Let's Assume You Are Having a Party and Have Stocked

question 61

Multiple Choice

Let's assume you are having a party and have stocked your refrigerator with beverages. You have 12 bottles of Coors beer, 24 bottles of Rainier beer, 24 bottles of Schlitz light beer, 12 bottles of Hamms beer, 2 bottles of Heineken dark beer and 6 bottles of Pepsi soda. You go to the refrigerator to get beverages for your friends. In answering the following question assume you are randomly sampling without replacement. What is the probability the first bottle selected is a Coors beer?

• A) 0.0750
• B) 0.1500
• C) 0.3000
• D) 0.1622

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Definitions:

Probability Function

A function that associates a probability with each outcome in the sample space of a stochastic experiment.

Poisson Probability

A distribution showing the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space.

Distribution

The way in which data points are spread out or distributed across various values.

Discrete

Refers to a type of quantitative variable that can assume a countable number of distinct values, often representing categories or counts.