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College of Engineering and Architecture

SET A

1. How many four letter words beginning 6. In how many ways can 6 distinct books be
and ending with a vowel without any arranged in a bookshelf?
letter repeated can be formed from the a. 720
word “personnel”? b. 120
a. 40 c. 360
b. 480 d. 180
c. 20
d. 312 7. What is the number of permutations of the
letters in the word BANANA?
2. Five different mathematics books, 4 a. 36
different electronics books and 2 b. 60
different communications books are to c. 52
be placed in a shelf with the books of d. 42
the same subject together. Find the
number of ways in which the books can 8. In how many ways can a PSME Chapter
be placed. with 15 directors choose a President, a
a. 292 Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer
b. 5760 and an Auditor, if no member can hold
c. 34560 more than one position
d. 12870 a. 360,360
b. 32,760
3. The number of ways can 3 nurses and 4 c. 3,003
engineers be seated on a bench with the d. 3,603,600
nurses seated together is
a. 144 9. There are four balls of four different
b. 258 colors. Two balls are taken at a time and
c. 720 arranged in definite order. For example,
d. 450 if a white and red balls are taken, one
definite arrangement is white first, red
4. How many 4 digits numbers can be second, and another arrangement is red
formed without repeating any digit from first, white second. How many such
the following digits: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6? arrangements are possible?
a. 120 a. 24
b. 130 b. 6
c. 140 c. 12
d. 150 d. 36

5. How many permutations are there if the 10. There are four balls of different colors.
letters PNRCSE are taken six at a time? Two balls at a time are taken and
a. 1440 arranged any way. How many such
b. 480 combinations are possible?
c. 720 a. 36
d. 360 b. 3
 c. 6 16. How many committees can be formed
d. 12 by choosing 4 men from an organization
11. How many 6-number combinations can of a membership of 15 men?
be generated from numbers from 1 to 42 a. 1390
inclusive, without repetition and with no b. 1240
regards to the order of the numbers? c. 1435
a. 850,668 d. 1365
b. 5,245,786
c. 188,848,296 17. A semiconductor company will hire 7
d. 31,474,716 men and 4 women. In how many ways
can the company choose from 9 men
12. Find the total number of combinations of and 6 women who qualified for the
three letters, J, R, T taken 1, 2, 3 at a position?
time. a. 680
a. 7 b. 540
b. 8 c. 480
c. 9 d. 840
d. 10
18. There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which
13. In how many ways can you invite one or there is a first and second prize. What is
more of your five friends in a party? the probability of a man drawing a prize
a. 15 if he owns 5 tickets?
b. 31 a. 50%
c. 36 b. 25%
d. 25 c. 20%
d. 40%
14. In how many ways can a committee of
three consisting of two chemical 19. Roll a pair of dice. What is the
engineers and on mechanical engineer probability that the sum of two numbers
can be formed from four chemical is 11?
engineers and three mechanical a. 1/36
engineers? b. 1/9
a. 18 c. 1/18
b. 64 d. 1/20
c. 32
d. None of these 20. Roll two dice once. What is the
probability that the sum is 7?
15. In mathematics examination, a student a. 1/6
may select 7 problems from a set of 10 b. 1/8
problems. In how many ways can he c. 1/4
make his choice? d. 1/7
a. 120
b. 530 21. A fair of coin is tossed three times. What
c. 720 is the probability of getting either 3
d. 320 heads or 3 tails?
a. 1/8
b. ¼
c. 3/8
 d. 1/2 d. 1/3

22. Determine the probability of drawing 28. There are 3 questions in a test. For each
either a king or a diamond in a single question 1 point is awarded for a correct
draw from a pack of 52 playing cards answer and none for the wrong answer.
a. 2/13 If the probability that Janine correctly
b. 3/13 answers a question in the test is 2/3,
c. 4/13 determine the probability that she gets
d. 1/13 zero in the test.
a. 8/27
23. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 b. 4/9
playing cards. Find the probability of c. 1/30
drawing a king or a red card. d. 1/27
a. 0.5835
b. 0.5385 29. In the CE Board examinations, the
c. 0.3585 probability that an examinee will pass
d. 0.8535 each subject is 0.8. what is the
probability that an examinee will pass at
24. A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the least two subjects out of the three board
probability of getting 3 tails up? subjects?
a. 1/8 a. 70.9%
b. 1/16 b. 80.9%
c. 1/4 c. 85.9%
d. 7/8 d. 89.6%

25. The probability of getting at least 2 30. From a box containing 6 red balls, 8
heads when coin is tossed four times is, white balls and 10 blue balls, one ball is
a. 11/16 drawn at random. Determine the
b. 13/16 probability that it is red or white.
c. 1/4 a. 1/3
d. 3/8 b. 7/12
c. 5/12
26. A fair coin is tossed three times. What is d. 1/4
the probability of getting either 3 heads
or 3 tail? 31. A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls.
a. 1/8 If two balls are drawn in succession
b. 3/8 without replacement, what is the
c. 1/4 probability that both balls are black?
d. 1/2 a. 5/16
b. 5/28
27. The probability of getting a credit in an c. 5/32
examination is 1/3. If three students are d.5/14
selected at random, what is the
probability that at least one of them got 32. An urn contain 4 black balls and 6 white
a credit? balls. What is the probability of getting
a. 19/27 1 black and 1 white ball in two
b. 8/27 consecutive draws from the urn?
c. 2/3 a. 0.24
 b. 0.27 a. 1/6
c. 0.53 b. 1/4
d. 0.04 c. 1/2
d. 1/8
33. From a bag containing 4 black balls and
5 white balls, two balls are drawn one at 35. A hand soap manufacturer introduced a
a time. Find the probability that one ball new liquid, lotion-enriched antibacterial
is white and one ball is black. Assume soap and conducted an extensive
that the first ball is returned before the consumer survey to help judge the
second ball is drawn. success of the new product. The survey
a. 16/81 showed 40% of the consumers had seen
b. 25/81 an advertisement for the new soap, 20%
c. 20/81 has tried the new soap, 15% had both
d. 40/81 seen an advertisement and tried the new
soap. If a randomly selected consumer
34. A group of 3 people enter a theater after has seen an advertisement for the new
the lights had dimmed. They are shown soap, what is the probability that this
to the correct group of 3 seats by the consumer tried the new soap?
usher. Each person holds a number sub. a. 72%
What is the probability that each is in b. 40%
the correct seat according to the c. 25%
numbers on seat and stub? d. 37.5%