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Transcribed Image Text:c. Use the sample space to determine the exact probability that
• Nobody gets the correct phone.
• Exactly one person gets the correct phone.
• Exactly two people get the correct phone.
• All three people get the correct phone.
• At least one person gets the correct phone.
d. If this situation were to befall a group of five people, vou could calculate the probability that nobody gets the correct phone as 11/30, Explain in vour own words what this probability means about

Transcribed Image Text:Random Cell Phones
Suppose that three executives bump into each other in an elevator and drop their identical cellular phones as the doors are closing, leaving them with no alternative but to pick up a phone at
random.
a. Describe in detail how you could conduct a simulation of this situation to produce empirical estimates of the probabilities involved.
Write the names of the three executives on
3
3 +
index cards of the same size. Shuffle the cards well and deal them onto a sheet of paper on which you have drawn
boxes - labeled with the names of the executives. Count how
many matches you have between names on the index cards and names in the boxes. Record this value. Then reshuffle the cards and deal again. Repeat many times. The empirical estimate of the
probability of one person getting their correct phone would be equal to the proportion of the times one match occurred divided by how many trials were run. Continuing this way we can form
estimates for zero matches, two matches, and three matches.
b. List all the possible outcomes in the sample space for this situation. For example, let 123 mean that the first cell phone went to the first executive, the second cell phone to the second executive,
and the third cell phone to the third executive. In this case all three executives got their correct phone back. There are five other outcomes.
123, 132, 223, 232, 323, 332
123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321
123, 133, 213, 233, 312, 322
123, 122, 211, 231, 322, 311
c. Use the sample space to determine the exact probability that
Nobody gets the correct phone.
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