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Health at Stake There has been a recent event where the House of Republicans defunded an organization for one whole year, which can save many lives. People rely heavily on Planned Parenthood, being the nation’s health care provider, as it provides them with reproductive health benefits. These benefits include, but are not limited to, access to contraception, cancer screenings, and basic preventative care. However, there are numerous amounts of people who concur with the decision to defund this

Question 1: Sample space: a list of all possible outcomes of the random experiment Event: a collection or set of one or more simple events in a sample space Probability of an event: the sum of the probabilities of the simple events Random experiment: an action or process that leads to one of several possible outcomes The first step in the process of assigning probabilities is to produce a list of the outcomes. The list of outcomes must be exhaustive, which means all possible outcomes must be

According to the Investopedia, “When an individual erroneously believes that the onset of a certain random event is less likely to happen following an event or a series of events. This line of thinking is incorrect because past events do not change the probability that certain events will occur in the future.” Gambler’s Fallacy is about our incorrect thinking of predicting what will happen next by the events happened before or the previous probability. For example, I did a coin toss for 10 times and I got

cause chaos. Another reason why people might say that America is an improbable idea is because, the idea of numerous groups of people coming together into one country might be thought of as disorder but in reality, America succeeds through devastating events of terrorism and common religious beliefs, for the majority of the people, despite being an “improbable idea.” America succeeds through common religious beliefs of citizens. In Lincoln’s second inaugural address, he states that the majority of American

and it is important to ask the rate of false positives for diagnostic tests. People must know how false positive rate compares to the true prevalence of disease, and when assessing test results need to know if u, r in a high-risk group. From the event, it is obvious that the fallacy ignores false positive rate.

Investigating and Expanding the Monty Hall Problem ___________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 Page 3 Introduction _____________________________________________________________________ Chapter 2 Page 5 Analyzing the problem _____________________________________________________________________

Rainfall induced landslide probability mapping for central province 1Edward H. Waithaka, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Geomatic Engineering & Geospatial Information Systems. P.o. Box 62000-00200, Nairobi, Kenya Email: hunja@eng.jkuat.ac.ke 2 Thomas G. Ngigi Email: tomngigi@hotmail.com 3Mercy W. Mwaniki, Email: mercimwaniki@yahoo.com Abstract Rainfall induced landslide hazards in Kenya represents a major challenge and remain an important issue in disaster

DICE AND PROBABILITY LAB Learning outcome: Upon completion, students will be able to… * Compute experimental and theoretical probabilities using basic laws of probability. Scoring/Grading Rubric: * Part 1: 5 points * Part 2: 5 points * Part 3: 22 points (2 per sum of 2-12) * Part 4: 5 points * Part 5: 5 points * Part 6: 38 points (4 per sum of 4-12, 2 per sum of 3) * Part 7: 10 points * Part 8: 10 points Introduction: While it is fairly simple to understand

Introduction- Probability is the measure of the likeliness that an event will occur. Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability, the analysis of random phenomena. The central objects of probability theory are random variables, stochastic processes, and events. If an individual coin toss or the roll of dice is considered to be a random event, then if repeated many times the sequence of random events will exhibit certain patterns, which can be studied and predicted.

because the questions are independent of each other. 6. Explain the difference between independent and dependent events. Dependent events are linked to another event, while independent events are single events. 7. Provide an example of experimental probability and explain why it is considered experimental. Experimental probability of an event is the ratio of the number of times the event occurs to the total number of trials. Example: Patrick flipped a number cube 40 times. A 5 appeared 10 times