Re: st: probability question

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Prob(rain) = 7/120
Prob(no rain) = 113/120

X=days it rains on hat

Prob(X=3)=c(4,3)*(7/120)^3*(113/120)^1
         =4*0.0001985*0.94
         =0.0007477


not much chance!


Richard Goldstein wrote:
> it's been a long time since I thought about questions like this, but, as
> a lead-in to a study, a client has asked the following question which he
> thinks he understands and says is related to where he wants to go:
>
> during a consecutive period of 120 days, if it rains on 7 days and my
> client wears a hat on 4 days (these are independent of any knowledge of
> the weather), what is the probability that it will rain on 3 of the days
> on which he is wearing a hat?
>
> my client swears that this is not a homework problem for him or his wife
> or one of their kids!
>
> Rich
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