Out of a bag of 64 beads, 8 of them are purple. Express the possibility of selecting a purple bead as a decimal number.

Bill, George, and Ross, in order, roll a die. The first one to roll an even number wins and the game is ended. What is the proba

hram777 [196]

Answer: $0.5714\frac{1}{15}$

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that Bill, George, and Ross, in order, roll a die.

The first one to roll an even number wins and the game is ended.

Since Bill starts the game he can win by throwing even number or lose by throwing odd number

P(win) = 0.5, otherwise, the die will go to George. For Bill to win, both George and Ross should throw an odd number so that Bill again gets the chance with game non ending.

Thus we have Prob of Bill winning =P of Bill winning in I throw +P of Bill winning in his II chance of throw +....infinitely

To get back the dice once he loses probability

= p both throws odd = $0.5(0.5) = 0.25$

Thus Prob for Bill winning

= $0.5+0.25(0.5)^2+0.25(0.5)^3(0.25)+...$

This is an infinite geometric series with I term 0.5 and common ratio 0.125<1

Sum = $\frac{a}{1-r} =\frac{0.5}{1-0.125} =0.5714$

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2 years ago

Part B

Troyanec [42]

Answer:

Part A) The length of a straight line between the school and the Fire Station is $4.6\ miles$

Part B) The length of a straight line between the school and the hospital is $2.1\ miles$

Step-by-step explanation:

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Let

The positive x-coordinates ----> East

The positive y-coordinates ----> North

The negative x-coordinates ----> West

The negative y-coordinates ----> South

take the point A (0,0) as the Middle School (reference point)

Part A) we have

Town Hall is located 4.3 miles directly east of the Middle School

so

The coordinates of Town Hall are B(4.3,0)

The Fire Station is located 1.7 miles directly North of Town Hall

so

The coordinates of Fire Station are C(4.3,1.7)

What is the length of a straight line between the school and the Fire Station?

Remember that

the formula to calculate the distance between two points is equal to

$d=\sqrt{(y2-y1)^{2}+(x2-x1)^{2}}$

we have

A(0,0) and C(4.3,1.7)

substitute

$d=\sqrt{(1.7-0)^{2}+(4.3-0)^{2}}$

$d=\sqrt{(1.7)^{2}+(4.3)^{2}}$

$d=4.6\ miles$

Part B) we have that

The hospital is 3.1 miles west of the fire station

so

The coordinates of the hospital are D(4.3-3.1,1.7)

D(1.2,1.7)

What is the length of a straight line between the school and the hospital?

Remember that

the formula to calculate the distance between two points is equal to

$d=\sqrt{(y2-y1)^{2}+(x2-x1)^{2}}$

we have

A(0,0) and D(1.2,1.7)

substitute

$d=\sqrt{(1.7-0)^{2}+(1.2-0)^{2}}$

$d=\sqrt{(1.7)^{2}+(1.2)^{2}}$

$d=2.1\ miles$

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2 years ago

A farmer plants corn in 1/4 of his field. He plants white corn in 3/5 of the corn

bija089 [108]

Answer:

$\frac{3}{20}$

Step-by-step explanation:

Fraction of the total that is for corn (TC - Total corn):

$TC=\frac{1}{4}$

fraction of the corn section that is for white corn (WC - white corn in the corn seccion):

$WC=\frac{3}{5}$

we need to find the fraction of the whole field that is for the white corn.

For this we need to find how much is $\frac{3}{5}$ out of the $\frac{1}{4}$ destinated to corn, and this will be the fraction of the total that is for white corn. We find this fraction by multiplying the fraction of corn ( $\frac{1}{4}$ ) by the fraction of white corn in the corn section ( $\frac{3}{5}$ ).