Question

An Internet company located in Southern California has season tickets to the Los Angeles Lakers basketball games. The company president always invites one of the seven vice presidents to attend games with him, and claims he selects the person to attend at random. One of the seven vice presidents has not been invited to attend any of the last four Lakers home games. What is the likelihood this could be due to chance

Answer 1

0.5398

Explanation:

Given that :

Total possible numbers vice presidents invited = 7

Required number of vice presidents invited = 1

Probability that a certain vice president is invited ;

P(a certain V. P is invited) = required outcome / Total possible outcomes

P(a certain V. P is invited) = 1/ 7

P(1 of the V. P's hasn't been invited to attend any of the last 4 games)

Then ; it means any of the remaining (7 - 1) = 6 has been invited ;

Hence,

P(1 of the V. P's hasn't been invited to attend any of the last 4 games) = ((7-1) / 7)^4

Likelihood that it could be due to chance :

(6/7)^4 = 0.5397750

= 0.5398