EXAMPLE 4.8 Favorite Vehicle Colors

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What is your favorite color for a vehicle? Our preferences can be related to our personality, our moods, or particular objects. Here is a probability model for color preferences.2

Color White Black Silver Gray
Probability 0.24 0.19 0.16 0.15
Color Red Blue Brown Other
Probability 0.10 0.07 0.05 0.04

Each probability is between 0 and 1. The probabilities add to 1 because these outcomes together make up the sample space . Our probability model corresponds to selecting a person at random and asking him or her about a favorite color.