Aretail shop accepts only cash or checks suppose that 45% of its customers carry cash 44% carry checks and 31% carry both cash and checks what is the probability that a randomly chosen customer at the top of the shop is carrying cash or checks are both

Apublic library wants to place 4 magazines and 9 books on each display shelf. the expression 4s+9s represents the total number of items that will be displayed on s shelves. simplify the expression

At 6 1/2 cents per pound of string beans how much does 7 pounds cost

Aprisoner is trapped in a cell containing three doors. the first door leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after two days of travel. the second leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after three days of travel. the third door leads immediately to freedom. (a) assuming that the prisoner will always select doors 1, 2 and 3 with probabili- ties 0.5,0.3,0.2 (respectively), what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (b) assuming that the prisoner is always equally likely to choose among those doors that he has not used, what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (in this version, if the prisoner initially tries door 1, for example, then when he returns to the cell, he will now select only from doors 2 and 3.) (c) for parts (a) and (b), find the variance of the number of days until the prisoner reaches freedom. hint for part (b): define ni to be the number of additional days the prisoner spends after initially choosing door i and returning to his cell.