In: Statistics and Probability
A production facility employs 15 workers on the day shift, 9
workers on the swing shift, and 6 workers on the graveyard shift. A
quality control consultant is to select 5 of these workers at
random for in-depth interviews. |
(a) | Find the number of outcomes in the event that all 5 of the selected workers come from the same shift. |
(b) | Find the number of outcomes in the event that the sample of 5 workers contains at least one worker from each shift. |
There are a total of workers. 5 workers can be selected from all the 30 workers in ways.
a) All 5 workers on the day shift in ways.
All 5 workers on the swing shift in ways.
All 5 workers on the graveyard shift in ways.
The required number of ways is
b)
We select 5 workers from day shift + swing shift in ways.
We select 5 workers from day shift + graveyard shift in ways.
We select 5 workers from graveyard shift + swing shift in ways.
And using part (a), number of ways of selecting (only from 2 shits and only from 1 shit) is
The number of ways of selecting the sample of 5 workers contains at least one worker from each shift is