Interactive practice questions
At the beginning of the year, a teacher seats his students alphabetically to learn their names quickly.
Can we use a probability distribution to model where a particular child will sit in the class?
No
Yes, a discrete probability distribution
Yes, a continuous probability distribution
Which of the following explains why a probability distribution doesn’t exist for this situation?
The outcomes are not random.
The outcomes are not variable.
A manager randomly selects four people from his Sales team and two people from his Development team to attend a leadership conference.
A manager randomly selects three of his staff to attend a leadership conference. He randomly selects people from his Sales team and his Development team.
The traffic signal at a particular pedestrian crossing remains red for $3$3 minutes.
Frank arrives at the pedestrian crossing to find that the light is currently red.