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Practice Exam Probability

The document contains practice questions for an exam, including multiple-choice and multi-step problems related to probability, statistics, and basic combinatorial calculations. It covers various scenarios such as area codes, family compositions, and game outcomes, providing specific questions and answer choices. Additionally, it includes problems requiring detailed calculations and explanations, aimed at assessing students' understanding of the topics.

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Practice Exam Probability

The document contains practice questions for an exam, including multiple-choice and multi-step problems related to probability, statistics, and basic combinatorial calculations. It covers various scenarios such as area codes, family compositions, and game outcomes, providing specific questions and answer choices. Additionally, it includes problems requiring detailed calculations and explanations, aimed at assessing students' understanding of the topics.

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Practice Questions Exam 1 Fall 2013

Part I Multiple choice. Write the correct letter in the box to the left of the
problem.

1. In a new plan for three-digit area codes, the first number can be any digit
from the numbers 2 – 9, the second number can be a 0, 1, or 2, and the
A third number can be any of the ten possible digits. How many area codes
are possible with this plan?

A. 240 B. 216 C. 210 D. 160

2. Assuming that all possibilities for three children are equally likely to occur,
what is the probability of selecting a family with three children that has at
least two girls?
B
A. 1/2 B. 3/8 C. 1/4 D. 1/8

3. Ten chickens are numbered 1 – 10. If you select three chickens


randomly, what is the probability that you will get all even numbered
chickens?
C A. 1/10 B. 3/10 C. 1/12
D. 1/3024

4. Suppose that you guess randomly on this particular multiple choice


question. What are the odds that you guess correctly?
D A. 1 to 3 B. 3 to 1 C. 4 to 1 D. 1 to 4

5. There are 6 babies in the nursery. There are three girls ages 1, 3, and 5
months. There are 3 boys ages 2, 4, and 6 months. If you randomly
select a baby, what is the probability that the baby is a boy OR is less than
5 months old?

A A. 5/6 B. 1/2 C. 1/3 D. 1/6

6. A coin is tossed and one person is selected from a group of 6 people


consisting of 1 male and 5 females. What is the probability that the coin is
a head AND the person selected is a male?
D
A. 1/2 B. 1/4 C. 1/8 D. 1/12
7. Consider the following data taken from one semester of MATH 120
students.
Passed the Didn’t Pass Total
course
Never missed 137 2 139
class
Missed class 131 30 161
Total 268 32 300

According to this data, what is the probability of passing GIVEN that the
student never missed class?

C A. 268/300 B. 137/268 C. 137/139 D. 139/300

8. A game is played that has 6 equally likely outcomes. If the first outcome is
obtained, then the player wins $4. If any other outcome is obtained, then
the player wins nothing. If there is a charge of $1 to play the game, what
C is the game’s expected value (from the player’s perspective)?

A. -$1.00 B. -$0.67 C. -$0.33 D. -$0.17

Part II Multi-step Problems. Show your work on each problem. Parts of


problems that are completely correct receive full credit and those with minor
mistakes may receive half credit. Each problem is worth 12 points.

9. A street vendor is selling ice cream cones. The following flavors are offered:
chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, mint. The following types of cones are
available: sugar cone, waffle cone. The purchaser must also decide whether
to order one scoop, two scoops, or three scoops. Anne is going to order an
ice cream cone. How many ways can she order an ice cream cone if an
order consists of a selection of cone, flavor, and number of scoops?

__________________
4,096 ways
10. Use the spinner to answer the following questions.

a) If you spin twice, how many outcomes are


possible?

Blue 6 ways, if order matters


b) Are the outcomes equally likely?
Green
No
Yellow
c) Make a probability distribution for the
outcomes on the spinner.

11. At a certain university there are 15 women faculty members and 45 men
faculty members. If a 3 person committee is to be elected, how many ways
can it be formed if the members are:

a. all males __________


14190

b. 2 females and 1 male __________


150
12. In a survey, 100 seniors at a high school were asked these questions:
• Do you favor a rule that allows only seniors to drive to school?

• Do you drive to school?

Does Not Drive


Drives to School Total
to School
Favors Rule 40 30 70
Opposes Rule 20 10 30
Total 60 40 100

A. Based on this survey, what is the probability that a senior chosen at


random favors the rule?
7/10
B. What is the probability that a senior chosen at random drives to school
and favors the rule?
4/10
C. What is the probability that a senior chosen at random drives to school
or opposes the rule?
7/10

13. On the SAT, there are five possible answers for each question. If you get
a problem correct, you are awarded 1 point. If you miss a problem that
you guessed on, you lose ¼ of a point.

a) What is the probability of guessing the answer correctly?

1/5
b) What is the probability of guessing the answer incorrectly?

4/5
c) What is the expected value of randomly guessing on a single
question? (Don’t’ forget to make your probability distribution first.)

4/15

d) What are the odds for randomly guessing a answer correctly?

1:4
e) What are the odds against randomly guessing the answer correctly?

4:1

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