Match the scenarios with the most appropriate model in the word bank.
1) A gambler places 50/50 bets on 16 football games and wants to know how many bets he won.
2) A basketball player shoots a free-throw and if he makes it he gets to try a second one; each is
worth point. Does he score two points?
3) A subcommittee of 4 men and 4 women is to be chosen from a committee of 6 men and 6
women. What is the probability that a randomly selected 8-person group qualifies?
4) There are 100,000 lightbulbs at the XYZ Refinery. Each bulb has a 2% chance of burning out
during the year. How many light bulbs will need to be replaced in July?
5) A pollster interviews people by randomly dialing phone numbers. He stops work after the tenth
answered call. How likely is it that he makes more than 15 calls in total?
WORD BANK: Bernoulli Trial, Binomial Random Variable, Negative Binomial Random Variable, Poisson Random Variable, Geometric Random Variable, Hypergeometric Random Variable
1) Binomial Random Variable
2) Binomial Random Variable
3) Hypergeometric Random Variable
4) Binomial Random Variable
5) Negative Binomial Random Variable (getting fixed number of success)
Match the scenarios with the most appropriate model in the word bank. 1) A gambler places...