# probabilities

1. ### Percentage and probability

I have this problem I am trying to solve and I am not sure how. Lets say 70% of the demography is white people. Now if I randomly pick 100 people from the same demography, how do I calculate what is the probability there are exactly 70 white people? or more general question, how do I calculate...
2. ### Help with the statistics solving

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3. ### Help regarding z-scores and probabilities?

Can you help me understand how to do these 3 problems? Be specific, please. Here is my homework, word for word: Here we are given the probability, say .9 and we find the values of the random variable (-a and a) that determine a probability of .9 on a standard normal distribution...
4. ### Proof the sum of two CDF's is a CDF.

This is a question my instructor asked in the last midterm exam but nobody was able to solve and he's suggesting it may come out again in the finals: If F(x) and G(X) are two CDF's, prove that H(X) is also a CDF if H(X) = F(X)+G(X)-F(x)G(X) He said something about right...
5. ### help for final dissertation in finance- very easy stat - URGENT! :-)

Hi I am about finishing my thesis in finance but I don't remember anything about statistics and I need your help!! here is my issue: the topic of the thesis is "exit strategies of private equity funds in luxury goods company". The hypothesis is that, given 3 possible types of exits (trade...
6. ### Calculate Probability of a value greater than knowing the Mean, St Deviation...?

I need to Calculate the probability of get 20000 or more with the following statistics; Statistics: Forecast values Trials 5,000 Base Case 0.00 Mean 14,755.75 Median 10,993.67 Mode --- Standard Deviation 10,519.67 Variance 110,663,505.00 Skewness 1.45 Kurtosis 4.40 Coeff. of...
7. ### An interesting probability calculation problem

Hello all! I'll be really glad if you respond to this question. I am working with an interesting probability calculation problem. In my problem there are ratings for 32 chess players. They are divided into two groups to form two chess teams in such a way that each team contains all types of...
8. ### Decisions: probabilities and preferences

Hello everybody. I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following problem. I need to decide between three options: a) spend my holiday in London; b) spend my holiday in Norwich; c) stay at home. My decision depends on two independent variables: 1. the chances that it will rain...
9. ### Need help here on probabilities

Hi, I'm trying to create a template in excel which will give me the probabilities of winning a tennis match. I've done some research already, and tried using the concept of markov chains. I want to know, are there any other concept in statistics that would give the same results? Something...