Solutions


Please note that the steps show rounded numbers, but that the final answers to the problems are calculated without rounding.

Problem Part Solution
1 - No probability can be greater than 1 or less than 0

The probilities of all possible events must add up to exactly 1

The probability of an event not happening is equal to 1 minus the probability that it does happen.
2 - 38.3%
The fact that all of the probabilities had to add up to 1 and that the chance of something happening is equal to 1 minus the chance that it does not happen.
3 - 15.8%
4 - 78.1%
The third rule (the chance of something happening is equal to 1 minus the chance that it does not happen).
5 - 81.4%
6 - It is not possible to answer this question using the data given. There may or may not be students from Texas, but we can’t tell how many just from this data.
7 - 0.14
8 - 0.46
9 - 0
10 - It is more likely to go up.