Blog

Although he really heard about Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player LeBron James’s broken hand from talking to his neighbor Marty, Pat was absolutely convinced that he heard about it on WTAM sports talk radio program. This is an example of a false memory due to:

Sperling’s classic experiment in which he briefly flashed three rows of letters on a screen immediately followed by a tone demonstrated that:

Dawn is systematically recording behaviors at a nursery school, making sure that she doesn’t interfere with the behaviors. Dawn is engaged in:

The hotter the weather, the more muggings tend to occur. This means that:

.  Suppose an experiment is to spin the following spinner and then draw a ball from the bag with the number landed on.  Bag 1 contains 1 red ball and 9 white balls.  Bag 2 contains 2 red balls and 8 white balls.  Bag 3 contains 15 red balls and 1 white ball.  Bag 4 contains 19 red balls and 1 white ball. Find the probability that the selected ball was from Bag 4 and it was white. 

An experiment consists of spinning the following spinner and then flipping a fair coin.  Determine the event where the spinner lands on a vowel.  

In a certain town in Texas, 55% of the population are men.  Also, 12% of the population are unemployed.  If 63% of the population are either men or unemployed, determine the following probabilities.  Determine the probability that someone from that town is both unemployed and a women.

Suppose that the odds against the Astros winning the World Series are 30 to 1.  Determine the probability that the Astros will win the World Series.  

A game consists of paying $5 to roll two dice.  If you roll a double, you are paid back $15.  If you roll a sum of seven, you are paid back $2.  If any other roll occurs you are paid back nothing.  What are your expected winnings for the game?   

A survey was asked to 130 students at Blinn College.  44 students were men 54 students spoke Spanish 62 students were engineering majors 23 students were engineering majors and spoke Spanish 30 students were men and could not speak Spanish 33 students were women and engineering majors 4 students were men and engineering majors and spoke Spanish How many of those surveyed were men or engineering majors?