Probability and Stats
Probability and Stats
2. If seven fair coins are simultaneously tossed in the air, what is the
probability that at least one will land heads up?
3. The scores of a student in six examinations were 70, 84, 81, 79, 88, 92.
Find the median.
6. A bag contains 5 red balls and 6 white balls. If 4 balls are drawn in
succession without replacement, find the probability that the balls
drawn are all o fte same color.
8. For the frequency distribution at the right, the relative frequency for 17
is
9. There are three candidates A,B and C for mayor of a certain town. If
the odds that A will win are 7:5 and those of B are 1:3, what is the
probability that candidate C will win?
10. For boys, the average number of absences in the first grade is 15
with a standard deviation of 7; for girls, the average number of
absences is 10 with a standard deviation of 6. In a nationwide survey,
suppose 100 boys and 50 girls are sampled. What is the probability
that the male sample will have at most three more days of absences
than the female sample?
11. In how many ways can you line up 5 persons to get up a bus
when person A and B will not follow each other?
12. The average of six scores is 38. If the highest score is removed,
the average of the remaining scores is 18.2. Find the highest score.
17. How many different ways can you arrange the letters X, Y, and
Z?
18. The number of permulation of n distinct objects arranged in a
circle is:
21. The odds for the occurrence of an event are s:f. This ratio means
that for every s favorable outcomes, there are f unfavorable outcomes.
What is the probability value equivalent to an odd ratio of 5:3?
24. From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white balls, two balls
are drawn one at a time. Find the probability that both balls are white.
Assume that the first balls is returned before the second ball is drawn.
27. Three bolts and three nuts are put in a box. If two parts are
chosen at random, find the probability that one is a bolt and one is a
nut
28. The distribution of a normal random variable with mean zero and
variance one.
30. One box contains 5 marbles and 2 blocks and a second box
contains 1 marbles and 3 blocks. If an object is taken from one of two
boxes at random, what is the probability that it is a block?
33. Find the root mean square of 2.7, 3.8, 3.2 and 4.3.
34. If the sum of the square of 5 numbers is 130 and their standard
deviation is equal to the square root of 2.96, find their arithmetic
mean.
36. Four fair coins are tossed at once. What is the probability of
obtaining three heads and one tail?
37. For the following given data: 12, 0, 45, 16, 31, 45, 45, 22, 25, 27,
and 28 the median is
39. Below, the cumulative frequency plot shows height (in inches) of
college basketball players.
40. In a dice game, one fair dice is used. The player wins P20 if he
rolls either 1 or 6. He loses P10 if he turns up any other face. What is
the expected winning for one roll of the dice?
42. This year is considered the worst year for Tiger woods. His score
for the ten tournaments he joined were: 70 72 68 75 69 70 71 75 70 67
What is his average score this year?
49. A bag contains 100 balls numbered 1 to 100. One ball is drawn
from the bag. What is the probability that the number on the ball
selected will be odd or greater tha 80?
51. A batch of computer chips includes two that are defective and
four that are acceptable. If two of these chips are randomly selected
without replacement, find the probability that both are defective.
52. How many different outcomes can occur when a coin is flipped 4
times?
53. The odds that a new product will succeed are estimated as being
5:3. Find the probability that the product will succeed.
56. One shot is fired from each of three guns, the probability of a hit
being 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 respectively. Find the probability of making at
least one hit.
58. If 15 people won prizes in the state lottery (assuming that there
are no ties), how many ways can these 15 people win first, second,
third, fourth and fifth prizes?
59. A sample consists of the values 10,18,34 and 22. Find average
deviation.
62. A cat has a litter of seven kittens. If the probability is 0.52 that a
kitten will be female, what is the probability that exactly two of the
seven will be male?
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70. The probability that a basketball team will win the championship
is assessed as being 1/3. Find the odds that the team will win.
71. What is the probability on a single roll of the die, that the number
is either even or a 3?
75. What is the sample variance of the following data? 0.50, 0.80,
0.75, 0.52, 0.60
The four major golf tournaments are the Master's, PGA, U.S. Open, and
British Open. The dotplot below shows how many of these tournaments
Tiger Woods won in the first decade of his professional career.
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Which of the following statements is true?
80. The ages of all females from the freshmen students in Mapua
Institute of Technology are a
83. What is the probability of picking an orange ball and a white ball
out of a bag containing seven orange ball, eight green balls, and two
white balls?
86. The probability that a certain ball player will get a hit in one time
is 0.30. Find the probability that in 4 times at bat, he will make exactly
one hit.
95. In how many ways can 4 boys and 4 girls be seated alternately in
a row of 8 seats?
99. Jose is taking two final exams in English and in Math. The
probability that he will pass the English exam is 0.75 and the
probability that he will pass either the English or the Math exam is
0.90. What is the probability that he will pass both exams?
102. On a vacation trip, a family travels 500 km each day. If the trip
lasts 3 days and the family averages 80 kilometers per hour the first
day, 93 kilometers per hour on the second day and 87 kilometers per
hoyr the third day, find the average speed of the entire trip.
103. An urn contains 6 red marbles and 4 black marbles. Two marbles
are drawn without replacement from the urn. What is the probability
that both of the marbles are black?
110. A group of 3 people enter a theater after the lights had dimmed.
They are shown to the correct group of 3 seats by the usher. Each
person holds a number stub. What is the probability that each is in the
correct seat according to the number on seat and stub?
112. Find the variance of 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 22.
114. If median = 57.22 and the mean = 55.78, find the mode by using
the empirical formula.
119. If six coins are tossed together, find the probability of tossing at
most two heads.
125. The water content of soil from a borrow site is normally ditributed
with a mean of 14.2% and a standard deviation of 2.3%. What is the
probability that a sample taken from the site will have a water content
above 16% or below 12%?
126. In a group of 10 boys and 15 girls, how many selections of a students are possible
if it is composed of 2 boys and 4 girls?
128. There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which there is a first prize and
a second prize. What is te probability of a man drawing a prize if the
owns 5 tickets?
129. A student goes to the library. The probability that she checks out
(a) a work of fiction is 0.40, (b) a work of non-fiction is 0.30, , and (c)
both fiction and non-fiction is 0.20. What is the probability that the
student checks out a work of fiction, non-fiction, or both?
130. The odds that a reviewee will not pass a board exam are 1:4.
Find the probability that the will pass the exam.
132. The distribution of a normal random variable with mean zero and
variance one.
134. Find the number of ways in which 4 boys and 4 girls can be
seated in a row if the boys and girls are to have alternate seats?
135. Five discs in a bag are numbered 1,2,3,4 and 5. What is the
probability that the sum of the numbers on 3 discs is greater than 10?
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140. The Acme Battery Company has developed a new cell phone
battery. On average, the battery lasts 60 minutes on a single charge.
The standard deviation is 4 minutes. Suppose the manufacturing
department runs a quality control test. They randomly select 7
batteries. The standard deviation of the selected batteries is 6
minutes. What would be the chi-square statistic represented by this
test?
141. Two dice are rolled. Find the probability that the sum of the
numbers on the dice is odd and the first die shows an even number.
145. From a box containing 6 red balls, 8 white balls and 10 blue balls,
one ball is drawn at random. Determine the probability that it is red, or
white.
150. How many permutations can be made from the letters A,B,C if all
letters are taken at a time?
154. The probablility that a Filipino boxer will win a silver medal is
0.40. Find the probability that out of 5 Filipino boxers, at least one will
win the silver.
155. Which of the following is said to be an unbiased estimator of the
population mean.
156. I. One college student read seven books. II. The college median is
equal to the high school median. III. The mean is greater than the
median in both groups.
158. Four friends take an IQ test. Their scores are 96, 100, 106, 114.
Which of the following statements is true?
following statements is true?
161. The stemplot below shows the number of hot dogs eaten by
contestants in a recent hot dog eating contest
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165. David attempts to shoot two free throws after being fouled in a
basketball game. The probability that the first attempt is successful
0.70. The probability that David is successful on the second attempt is
0.45. If David is successful on the first attempt, what is the probability
that he makes the second attempt?
170. A bag contains 10 red balls, 30 white balls, 20 black balls and 15
yellow balls. If two balls are drawn, replacement being made after each
drawing, find the probability that only one is a red ball.
173. Out of a sample of 10,000 men, the probability that a man picked
at random weighs over 86 kg is 0.25. The probability that a man
weighs less than 61 kg. Is 0.15. What is the probability that a man
picked at random weighs between 61 and 86 kg.
175. What are the odds in favor of obtaining at least 4 heads when a
coin is tossed 5 times?
178. For the data shown at the right, what is the average passing
percentage of CE Board Exam last year?
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