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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 questions assume you are randomly sampling without replacement.


Refer to Exhibit 8-2. What is the probability the first four bottles you select will be a Coors, a Schlitz, a Rainier, and a Coors in that order?
     Student Response     Feedback
1.     0.0019     
2.     0.0022     
3.     0.0020     
4.     0.8875

Submitted: 146 days and 6 hours ago.
Category: Math
Value: $9
Status: CLOSED

Accepted Answer

Hi again,

Coors: 12
Rainier: 24
Schlitz: 24
Hamms: 12
Heineken: 2
Pepsi: 6
Total: 80

Probability = (12/80)(24/79)(24/78)(11/77)

= 0.0020

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Expert: abozer
Pos. Feedback: 99.9 %
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Answered: 6/29/2009

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