California is hit every year by approximately 500 earthquakes that are large enough to be felt. however, those of destructive magnitude occur, on average, once a year. find a) probability that at least 3 months elapse before the first earthquake of destructive magnitude occurs. b) probability that at least 7 months elapsed before the first earthquake of destructive magnitude occurs knowing that 3 months have already elapsed.
expert answer

a) The probability that at least 3 months elapse before the first earthquake of destructive magnitude occurs is P=0.7788

b) The probability that at least 7 months elapsed before the first earthquake of destructive magnitude occurs knowing that 3 months have already elapsed is P=0.7165

Step-by-step explanation:

Tha most appropiate distribution to model the probability of this events is the exponential distribution.

The cumulative distribution function of the exponential distribution is given by:

The destructive earthquakes happen in average once a year. This can be expressed by the parameter λ=1/year.

We can express the probability of having a 3 month period (t=3/12=0.25) without destructive earthquakes as:

Applying the memory-less property of the exponential distribution, in which the past events don't affect the future probabilities, the probability of having at least 7 months (t=0.58)  elapsed before the first earthquake given that 3 months have already elapsed, is the same as the probability of having 4 months elapsed before an earthquake.

option c) graph of line going through 1, 4 and 3, 10

step-by-step explanation:

let y equal to margo's coin collection

let x equal to number of years

at the begining x=0, y=1 → point=(x,y)→point=(0,1)

she adds 3 coins per year, then y=1+3x

at x=1, y=1+3(1)=1+3→y=4→point=(x,y)→point=(1,4)

at x=3, y=1+3(3)=1+9→y=10→point=(x,y)→point=(3,10)

the graph of line going through (1, 4) and (3, 10), then the option c is the correct.

step-by-step explanation:

given expression is .

now we need to simplify the given expression .

we know that square root is equivalent to the power 1/2. so that means we can take half of the exponents to get the square root of given expression.

expanding that will give a very very large number so let's keep answer in exponent form.