Question

This year June 1 is a Friday, and June has 30 days. If there will be exactly one hail storm in June, but we have no idea on which day it will happen, what is the probability it will happenon a Saturday, and ruin your day off?

Answer 1

Answer:

The probability that the hail storm will happen on a Saturday is 0.1667.

Step-by-step explanation:

The month of June started on Friday.

Then June 2 is a Saturday.

Remaining 28 days.

Each week has 7 days.

There will be 4 full weeks for the month of June.

So there will be 4 more Saturdays.

Thus, there are a total of 5 Saturdays in the month of June.

Compute the probability that the hail storm will happen on a Saturday as follows:

$P(hail-storm)=\frac{n(Saturdays)}{Total\ no.\ of\ days} =\frac{5}{30}= 0.1667$

Thus, the probability that the hail storm will happen on a Saturday is 0.1667.