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ADAMSON UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

SPECIAL TOPICS 2 - POST TEST


PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

NAME: _____________________________________ DATE: ________________

1. It is the character of a population which is 9. Suppose that the probability of a person believing a
measureable. tale about ECE board exam leakage is 0.7. What is the
A. Sample C. Frequency probability that the fifth person to hear this tale is the
B. Distribution D. Parameter third one to believe it?
A. 0.185 C. 0.110
2. What is a frequency curve which is composed of a B. 0.139 D. 0.142
series of rectangles connected with the steps as the
base and the frequency as the height? 10. Allen picked 10 differently-colored beads. How many
A. Histogram C. Ogive different bracelets can he make if he is going to use
B. Bar graph D. Kurtosis only 6 of the 10 beads per bracelet?
A. 12200 C. 12600
3. The quartile deviation is a measure of ___________. B. 12500 D. 12700
A. division C. certainty
B. dispersion D. central tendency 11. A student received grades of 83, 94, 78, and 84.
Determine the arithmetic mean of the grades.
4. From six history books and eight economics books, in A. 85 C. 83
how many ways can a person select two history B. 86 D. 84
books and three economics books and arrange them
on a shelf? 12. What is the geometric mean of the numbers 2, 4, 4, 5,
A. 100,800 C. 120,000 6, 9, 13, and 11?
B. 130,400 D. 108,000 A. 8.55 C. 3.11
B. 5.77 D. 4.99
5. In rolling two fair dice, what is the probability of
obtaining equal numbers or numbers with and even 13. What is the harmonic mean of the numbers 5, 6, 6, 7,
product? and 9?
A. 0.44 C. 0.833 A. 8.76 C. 6.35
B. 0.167 D. 0.333 B. 3.89 D. 2.89

6. Compute the median of the sample: 53, 55, 70, 58, 14. Find the mode of the given set of numbers: 5, 6, 6, 7,
64, 57, 53, 69, 57, 68, 53, and 59. 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, and 13.
A. 57.5 C. 58 A. 6 and 7 C. 7 and 8
B. 64 D. 57 B. 7 and 9 D. 9 and 10

7. If we inspect by drawing 5 sheets without 15. Supposed a die is rolled three times. What is the
replacement from every batch of 500, what is the probability that all three rolls are the same?
probability of getting 5 clean sheets although 2% of A. 1/36 C. 5/36
the sheets contain spots? B. 1/216 D. 5/216
A. 0.1035 C. 0.8835
B. 0.7635 D. 0.9035 16. Of a lot of 10 items, 2 are defective, find the number
of samples of 4 containing 1 defective.
8. The probability that an examinee passes the board A. 112 C. 114
examination is 0.8. Find the probability that the B. 113 D. 115
examinee will pass the examination on the fourth try. 17. Determine the number of different bridge hands. A
A. 3/625 C. 8/625 bridge hand consists of 13 cards selected from a full
B. 4/625 D. 9/625 deck of 52 cards.
A. 635,013,955,600 C. 635,013,559,600
B. 635,613,559,600 D. 635,310,559,600
25. Find the probability of getting a prime number thrice
18. In a restaurant’s menu, column A has 10 dishes and by tossing a die 5 times.
column B has 20 dishes. A family wants to share 5 A. 0.3125 C. 0.3421
dishes from column A and another 5 dishes from B. 0.3156 D. 0.3879
column B. How many different combinations can the
family have to choose if none of the dishes in column 26. An urn contains four black balls and six white balls.
A is found in column B? What is the probability of getting one black ball and
A. 2,907,600 C. 50,305 one white ball in two consecutive draws from the
B. 3,907,008 D. 10,520 run?
A. 0.34 C. 0.53
19. A card is chosen at random from a deck of 52 cards. It B. 0.33 D. 0.12
is then replaced, the deck reshuffled and a second
card is chosen. What is the probability of getting a 27. A box contains 4 black marbles, 3 red marbles, and 2
jack and an eight? white marbles. What is the probability that a black
A. 2/169 C. 1/16 marble, then a red marble, then a white marble is
B. 3/52 D. 1/4 drawn without replacement?
A. 3/21 C. 2/21
20. According to a veterinarian, a certain cross of B. 1/21 D. 4/21
hamsters will result in brown, black, and white
offspring in the ratio 8:4:4. Find the probability that 28. If two dice are cast, what is the probability that the
among 8 offspring, 5 will be brown, 2 black, and 1 sum will be less than 5?
white. A. 1/6 C. 5/14
A. 23/256 C. 27/256 B. 2/3 D. 2/13
B. 21/256 D. 29/256
29. A coin is tossed 3 times, 2 heads and 1 tail fall. What
21. To avoid arrest, a syndicate places 7 narcotic tablets is the probability that the first toss was head?
in a bottle containing 10 vitamin pills that are similar A. 2/3 C. 1/4
in appearance. If the customs official selects 3 of the B. 3/4 D. 1/2
tablets at random for analysis, what is the probability
that the traveler will be arrested for the illegal 30. If Marlon has 8 pairs of socks (4 white, two black, one
possession of narcotics? blue and one red), what is the probability that he
A. 13/17 C. 14/17 randomly chooses two pairs of white socks to wear
B. 11/17 D. 15/17 on consecutive days.
A. 3/13 C. 3/11
22. How many different signals, each consisting of eight B. 3/15 D. 3/14
flags hung one above the other, can be formed from
a set of three indistinguishable red flags, two 31. Find the number of ways 2 balls, 4 dolls and 6 toy
indistinguishable blue flags, two indistinguishable guns can be given to 12 children if each child gets a
white flags and one black flag? toy.
A. 1390 C. 1200 A. 13,860 C. 14,200
B. 1680 D. 1900 B. 12,657 D. 11,890

23. If 15 people won prizes in the state lottery (assuming 32. In a basketball game, there are 10 participating
that there are no ties), how many ways can these 15 teams. If all teams play in a single round robin so that
people win first, second, third, fourth, and fifth each team can play once against each team, what is
prizes? the total number of games played in all?
A. 340,360 C. 360,360 A. 42 C. 45
B. 360,306 D. 304,340 B. 43 D. 44

24. In how many ways can the letters in the word 33. If the probability of an event occurring is 3/7, what
MONDAY be arranged? are the odds that it will not occur?
A. 560 C. 450 A. 3:4 C. 3:7
B. 234 D. 720 B. 4:3 D. 7:3
34. Three screws are drawn at random from a lot of 100
screws, 10 of which are defective. Find the probability
that the screws drawn will be non-defective in
drawing without replacement.
A. 0.6275 C. 0.4567
B. 0.7265 D. 0.5067

35. A quiz consists of 24 multiple choice questions. Each


question has 5 possible answers, only one of which is
correct. If you answer the questions completely
based on guessing, what is the probability that you
will answer exactly 4 incorrectly?
A. almost zero C. 0.12
B. 0.009 D. 0.367

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