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 six vice presidents to attend games with him, and claims he selects the person to attend at random. One of the six vice presidents has not been invited to attend any of the last seven Lakers home games.

Required:
What is the likelihood this could be due to chance?

Answer 1

27.91%

Step-by-step explanation:

We are told that the company president invites one of the six vice presidents to attend the games with him. Thus, probability of a vice president getting invited is;

P(vice president invited) = 1/6

Now, we are told that One of the six vice presidents was not invited to attend any of the last seven Lakers home games.

Thus, the likelihood this could be due to chance is;

(1 - 1/6)^(7) = (5/6)^(7)

This gives; 0.2791 or 27.91%