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11 April, 20:32

Suppose you wanted to evaluate the performance of the three judges in Smallville, Texas: Judge Adams, Judge Brown, and Judge Carter. Over a three-year period in Smallville, Judge Adams saw 27% of the cases, Judge Brown saw 31% of the cases, and Judge Carter saw the remainder of the cases. 5% of Judge Adams' cases were appealed, 7% of Judge Brown's cases were appealed, and 9% of Judge Carter's cases were appealed. (See the case problem on pages 216-218 of your textbook for a similar problem.) Given a case from this three-year period was not appealed, what is the probability the judge in the case was not Judge Brown? Question 1 Of 46 bank accounts at a small bank, 25 accounts have values of less than $1,000 and the rest have values of at least $1,000. Suppose 4 accounts are randomly sampled (See exercise 9 on page 184 of your textbook for a similar problem.) What is the probability that exactly 3 of the 4 accounts have values of at least $1,000?

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  1. 11 April, 21:18
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    Answer 1: Given that the case from this three-year period was not appealed, the probability that the judge was not Judge Brown is 0.689.

    Answer 2: Probability that exactly 3 of the 4 accounts have values of at least $1000 is 0.2068.

    Step-by-step explanation:

    Answer 1:

    Probabilities that each of the judges saw the cases are:

    P (Judge Adams) = 0.27

    P (Judge Brown) = 0.31

    P (Judge Carter) = 1 - (0.27 + 0.31)

    P (Judge Carter) = 0.42

    Probabilities that the cases of each of the judges were appealed (A) can be represented as a conditional probability:

    P (A | Judge Adams) = 0.05

    P (A | Judge Brown) = 0.07

    P (A | Judge Carter) = 0.09

    Hence we can find the probabilities that the cases of each of the judges were not appealed:

    P (Not A | Judge Adams) = 1 - 0.05 = 0.95

    P (Not A | Judge Brown) = 1 - 0.07 = 0.93

    P (Not A | Judge Carter) = 1 - 0.09 = 0.91

    We need to find the probability P (Judge Brown | Not A). For this we will use the Baye's Theorem:

    P (Ai|B) = [P (Ai) P (B|Ai) ]/[P (A1) P (B|A1) + P (A2) P (B|A2) + P (A3) P (B|A3) ]

    P (Judge Brown | Not A) = [P (Judge Brown) * P (Not A | Judge Brown) ]/[P (Judge Adams) * P (Not A | Judge Adams) + P (Judge Brown) * P (Not A | Judge Brown) + P (Judge Carter) * P (Not A | Judge Carter) ]

    P (Judge Brown | Not A) = [0.31*0.93]/[ (0.27*0.95) + (0.31*0.93) + (0.42*0.91) ]

    = 0.2883 / (0.2565 + 0.2883 + 0.3822)

    = 0.2883/0.927

    P (Judge Brown | Not A) = 0.311

    P (Not Judge Brown | Not A) = 1 - 0.311 = 0.689

    Given a case from this three-year period was not appealed, the probability the judge in the case was not Judge Brown is 0.689

    Answer 2:

    We will use the binomial distribution formula to find out the probability that exactly 3 of the 4 accounts have values of at least $1000. The binomial distribution formula is:

    P (X=x) = ⁿCₓ pˣ qⁿ⁻ˣ

    Where n = no. of trials

    x = no. of successful trials

    p = probability of success

    q = probability of failure = 1-p

    We have,

    n = 46

    x = 4

    p = (46-25) / 46 = 21/46

    q = 25/46

    P (X=3) = ⁴C₃ (21/46) ³ (25/46) ⁴⁻³

    = 4 * (21/46) ³ (25/46) ¹

    P (X=3) = 0.2068
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