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Many websites have ads whose appearance is based onprobability. Advertisers pay the website based on the number of timesthe ad appears.a. The probability that an ad appears when a particular website isloaded is 0.2. The website gets 2000 hits a day. About how manytimes does the ad appear?b. The probability that an ad appears when a particular website isloaded is 0.05. About how many hits must the website have for thead to appear 1000 times?

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Answer:

A. How many times the ad appear:

= 400 times

B. How many hits the website must have for thread to appear 1000 times with 0.05 probability that an ad appears when the website is loaded.

= 20,000 hits

Explanation:

A. The probability that an ad appears when a particular website is loaded = 0.2

When the website gets 2,000 hits a day, the ad appears

= 2,000 x 0.2

= 400 times

B. When the probability that an ad appears when the website is loaded is 0.05.

Therefore, the website must have 20,000 hits for thread to appear 1,000 times

= 1,000/0.05

= 20,000 times

The probability of an ad appearing when a website is loaded is the chance that the event happens (i.e. the ad appears) from the many events that can happen.

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