About 20% of movies coming out of Hollywood are comedies, Warner Bros has been the lead studio
Question:
About 20% of movies coming out of Hollywood are comedies, Warner Bros has been the lead studio for about 9% of recent movies, and about 2% of recent movies are comedies from Warner Bros. Let C denote the event a movie is a comedy and W denote the event a movie is produced by Warner Bros.
(a) Write probability expressions for each of the three facts given in the first sentence of the exercise.
(b) What is the probability that a movie is either a comedy or produced by Warner Bros?
(c) What is the probability that a Warner Bros movie is a comedy?
(d) What is the probability that a comedy has Warner Bros as its producer?
(e) What is the probability that a movie coming out of Hollywood is not a comedy?
(f) In terms of movies, what would it mean to say that C and W are disjoint events? Are they disjoint events?
(g) In terms of movies, what would it mean to say that C and W are independent events? Are they independent events?
Step by Step Answer:
a We are told that PC 020 PW 009 and PC and W 002 b We use the additive rule for find the probabilit...View the full answer
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