1.Suppose that you want to find the probability that event A or event B will occur. If these two events are not mutually exclusive, explain how you would proceed.
2.Is the number of passengers who show up for a particu-lar commercial airline flight a discrete or a continuous random variable? Is the time between flight arrivals at a major airport a discrete or a continuous random vari-able? Explain your answers.
3.Suppose that officials in the federal government are trying to determine the likelihood of a major small-pox epidemic in the United States within the next 12 months. Is this an example of an objective probability or a subjective probability? How might the officials assess this probability?
