Question 2.3 [1, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2]
Dr Clohessy drives to work every day, and she passes 11 traffic lights. If each traffic light works
independently from each other and each have a probability of being green when DR Clohessy drives
up to the light of 0.25. Use this information to answer the following questions.
a) Define the random variable X of the experiment.
b) What is the probability that at least two lights will be green on her morning drive through the
11 traffic lights?
c) What is the probability that at least two lights will be green, given that at least one has already
been green?
d) What is the probability that three lights will be red through the 11 traffic lights?
e) Determine the mean of X and standard deviation of X of the number of green traffic lights.
f) Now suppose you are interested in the first traffic light that turns
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