Question 17.29

17.29 Poor service.

In the food service industry, some argue tipping encourages servers to provide discriminate service. If the server expects a good tip, he or she may provide better service. In one survey, 193 servers were surveyed and asked if they ever provided poor service because they did not expect a good tip. Ninety-six replied yes.10

  1. What proportion of the servers have provided poor service because of an expected bad tip?
  2. What are the odds that a server will have provided bad service given an expected bad tip?
  3. What proportion of the servers did not provide bad service?
  4. What are the odds that a server will not have provided bad service ?
  5. How are your answers to parts (b) and (d) related?

17.29

(a) 0.4974. (b) . (c) 0.5026. (d) . (e) They are reciprocals.