1. Four students leave umbrellas on the umbrella-stand of the university library. Absent-mindedly, they pick umbrellas at random when they leave. Show that the chance that no one gets his own umbrella is 3/8.
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2. A pair of fair dice is tossed. Find the probability that the maximum of the two numbers is greater than 4.
(Ans. 5/9)
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3. A table of random numbers is built up from the digits 0 to 9 =, each digit being chosen at random. Find the probability that
a) the digit 4 appears exactly once in a two-digit number
b) the digit 4 appears exactly once in a three-digit number
c) only two zeros appear in a three-digit number
( Ans for
a = 0.18
b = 0.243
c = 0.027)