Probability plays a crucial and important role in many things: industries, recre

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Probability plays a crucial and important role in many things: industries, recreation, etc. Let's see how many we can think of. I know that we will all be amazed at how much our every day life is influenced by probability.






Identify at least one example of probability encountered in everyday life which has not previously been mentioned.




Explain how probability is used in that situation.




Identify the type of probability your example best fits by explaining whether it is an independent event or dependent upon something else.

Explanation / Answer

1) Probability of a bus being on time at your stop. 2) We can use normal distribution to approximate the probabilities of the bus taking less or more than what is expected. It is normal distribution because there is population information about the average of time it takes and the standard deviation. 3) The event is dependent. The fact of a bus arriving on time depends on the traffic, the green lights, on the driving being slow or fast, etc.

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