A community swim team has 150 members. Seventy-five of the members are advanced swimmers. Forty-seven of the members are intermediate swimmers. The remainder are novice swimmers. Forty of the advanced swimmers practice four times a week. Thirty of the intermediate swimmers practice four times a week. Ten of the novice swimmers practice four times a week. Suppose one member of the swim team is chosen randomly.
- What is the probability that the member is a novice swimmer?
- What is the probability that the member practices four times a week?
- What is the probability that the member is an advanced swimmer and practices four times a week?
- What is the probability that a member is an advanced swimmer and an intermediate swimmer? Are being an advanced swimmer and an intermediate swimmer mutually exclusive? Why or why not?
- Are being a novice swimmer and practicing four times a week independent events? Why or why not?
OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 3.3 Two Basic Rules of Probability, exercise 4