<u><em>Answer:</em></u>
a. He will have to read half an article per night
b. Fraction of the reading assignment read each night =
<u><em>Explanation:</em></u>
<u>Part a:</u>
<u>We are given that:</u>
number of articles to read = 4 articles
number of nights = 8 nights
To get the number of articles that he should read per night, we will simply divide the the number of articles by the number of nights
<u>Therefore:</u>
number of articles to read per night = articles per night
<u>Part b:</u>
Now, we know that he will read half an article each night from a total of 4 articles
To get the fraction of the reading assignment read each night, we will divide the number of articles read each night by the total number of assignments
<u>Therefore:</u>
Fraction of the reading assignment read each night =
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In order to determine if the events are independent or not we need to find the conditional probabilities.
The conditional probability of event A, given event B is denoted as P(A|B)
P(A*B) indicates P(A and B)
Using the values, we get:
Since P(A|B) is not equal to P(A) this indicates that occurrence of event B has an impact on the occurrence of event A. This shows that the two events are dependent.
Therefore, the correct option is the second one.2. A and B are not independent events because P(A∣∣B)≠P(A)
Since in this equation we are dividing 17/2 by 1/4, we can think of this as multiplying 17/2 with 4/1 (or 4).
17 4
---- X ----- = 34
2 1
Our final answer is 34 days.
10*5+10*5*1 I think this is the right way