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On his drive to work, Leo listens to one of three radio stations A, B, or C. He first turns to A. If A is playing a song he likes, he listens to it; if not, he turns to B. If B is playing a song he likes, he listens to it; if not, he turns to C. If C is playing a song he likes, he listens to it; if not, he turns off the radio. For each station, the probability is 0.30 that any given moment the station is playing a song he likes. On his drive to work, what is the probability that Leo will hear a song he likes?

2006-11-20 03:20:47 · 3 answers · asked by ThinkProb 1 in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

3 answers

Take the probability of liking song A: .30
Add it to the probability of both listening to song B and then liking it: (1 - .30) (.30)
Add that to the probability of listening to song C and liking it:
(1 - (.30 + (1 - .30)(.30))) (.30)

Or, more simply,
The chance that Leo will like song A is 30%
Of the 70% of the time that he switches to station B, he will like the song 30% of the time. Thirty percent of 70% is 21%.
Of the 49% (100% - 30% - 21%) of the time Leo switches to station C, he will like the song 30% of the time. Thirty percent of 49% is 14.7%.
30% + 21% + 14.7 = 65.7% chance Leo will be boogie-ing to the tunes in his ride.

2006-11-20 03:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by bgdddymtty 3 · 0 0

It's just like 3 tosses of a loaded die. The probabilities are independent of each other, so the prob. that he finds no station to his liking is 0.7^3. (He must go through all 3 stations to do this.) Thus the prob. that he finds what he wants is 1-0.7^3=0.657.

2006-11-20 11:32:35 · answer #2 · answered by kirchwey 7 · 0 0

.3 + (1-.3)*.3 + (1-(1-.3)*.3)*.3

2006-11-20 11:25:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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