A die is rolled three times. What is the probability of
obtaining at least one four?
2.
A green and a red dice are rolled once. The number showing in
the green die is the x-intercept of a line and the number showing
in the red die is the y-intercept of the same line.
a)
What is the probability that the line is parallel to the line x+ y/3 = 1?
b)
What is the probability that the line is perpendicular to the
line y = x + 1?
c)
Suppose that the dice are rolled once more.
What is the probability that the second line is parallel to the
first one?
3.
Returning to the extinction problem from our previous symposium.
There it was stated that the probability of extinction for a given
vertebrate species over a period T = 5,000,000 years as equal
to 0.1. Denoting by P{T=k} the probability that
the species becomes extinct during the k-th period, we define the
expected extinction time E as: