Question

The table gives a set of outcomes and their probabilities. Let A be the event "the outcome is less than 8". Find P(A). Outcome Probability 1 0.12 2 0.11 3 0.4 4 0.02 5 0.04 6 0.17 7 0.02 00 0.09 9 0.03

Answer 1

We want to calculate the probability of this event A: "the outcome is less than 8". To calculate this probability, we should first note that we have a total of 9 outcomes. So, we will first identify out of this outcomes cause the event A to happen.

Since the event A is saying that the outcome is less than 8, then the outcomes that would make the event A to happen would be the numbers from 1 to 7. However, to calculate this probabilty, we will use this property of probability.

Given an event A, we have the