1. Americans can be quite suspicious, especially when it comes to government conspiracies. On the question of whether the U.S. Air Force has hidden proof of the existence of intelligent life on other planets, the proportions of Americans with varying opinions are given in the table.

Opinion Proportion

Highly likely 0.24

Unlikely 0 .24

Unlikely 0.40

Other 0.12

Suppose an American is selected and their review is recorded.

a) What are the simple events for this experiment?

b) Are all the simple events you gave in subparagraph a equally likely? If not,

What are the probabilities that should be assigned to each?

c) What is the probability that the selected person will find at least an unlikely that the Air Force is hiding information about intelligent life on other planets?

2. Professor Veronica identifies that of 40 times she arrives at the first traffic light on her way to work, 5 is green, what is the probability that the next time she will reach the following at that traffic light? Use the empirical approach.

3.What is the probability that today will be Thursday? What is the complementary event of the event "today is Tuesday"?