Suppose there are three desks, each with two drawers. One desk contains a gold medal in each drawer, one contains a silver medal in each drawer, and one contains one of each, but you don’t know which desk is which. The question is this: If you open a drawer and find a gold medal, what are the chances that the other drawer in that desk also contains gold?

Mrs. Hiatt puts the names of all 15 of her second period students on popsicle sticks and places them in a jar. When she wants to call on someone, she chooses a popsicle stick. She always replaces the popsicle stick before she draws another name. If Mrs. Hiatt chooses two students, what is the probability that Emily will not be one of them?

A person must pay $$5 to play a certain game at the casino. Each player has a probability of 0.14 of winning $$14, for a net gain of $$9 (the net gain is the amount won 14 minus the cost of playing 5).Each player has a probability of 0.86 of losing the game, for a net loss of $$5 (the net loss is simply the cost of playing since nothing else is lost).What is the Expected Value for the player (that is, the mean of the probabiltiy distribution)? If the Expected Value is negative, be sure to include the "-" sign with the answer. Express the answer with two decimal places.Expected Value = $ If a person plays this game a very large number of times over the years, do we expect him/her to come out financially ahead or behind? behind ahead

Luella has a bag with three Hershey Kisses, two Reese's Cups, five York Peppermint Patties, and one Jolly Rancher. What is the probability that Luella will pull out a Hershey's Kiss, eat it, and then pull out a York Peppermint Patty?