AMS 5 Midterm: AMS5 Midterm 2009 Spring Solutions

• School: UCSC
• Department: Applied Math and Statistics
• Course: AMS 5
• Professor: All

Document Summary

A normal table is on the last page of this exam. You must explain all answers and/or show working for full credit. Instead of driving from palo alto to santa cruz, i now take the vanpool. The vanpool has two drivers, a primary and a backup. The primary driver is available to drive with probability. 0. 95, and the backup driver is available with chance 0. 92. being available? (a) what is the chance that, on any given day, the van will not run, due to neither driver. Aside from the driver"s seat, there are 11 passenger seats in the van. There are 14 people signed up to ride as passengers. The chance that any given passenger shows up on a particular day is 0. 8. (c) what is the chance that exactly 11 passengers show up to ride the van on a particular day? (y~ (