Directions: Solve the following problems. All written work must be your own. See the course syllabus for
detailed rules.
- [3.1.11] How any numbers in
are divisible by
and contain the digit ?
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You choose a positive integer less than or equal to
at random. What is the probability that your chosen integer:
- has all distinct digits?
- [3.2.4] has exactly one
and one ?
- has at least one
and at least one ?
(Hints: Count the complement. Let ,
let
be the set of
that have no ,
and let
be the set of
that have no .
Use that .)
- A fair coin is tossed
times. Find the probability that the flips form a palindromic sequence (e.g. HHTTHTTHH).
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[3.2.8] Ten soccer players are standing in a circle and randomly passing a ball. When a player gets
the ball, they can pass the ball to anyone except to the player who just passed them the
ball.
- If player
starts the exercise, what is the probability that
receives the third pass?
- If player
does not start the exercise, what is the probability that
receives the third pass?
- [4.1.3] A standard deck of playing cards has one card for each suit/rank pair, where the
suits are spades, hearts,
diamonds, and clubs and the
ranks are ace, 2 through 10, jack, queen, king. How many ways are there to order a deck of cards so
that all cards with the same suit are next to each other? (The cards within each suit need not be in
order.)
- [4.1.10] You order 10 different books online, 3 of which are for your sister. The books arrive
randomly, one by one. What is the probability that the books for your sister arrive
consecutively?