PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS REFRESHER SET

1.

How many 11-letter code can be made from the word MATHEMATICS?
a. 120
b. 24
c. 11!

d. 126

2.

How many committees can be formed of 3 students can be formed from the group of 4 students?
a. 6
b. 4
c. 12
d. 24

3.

Mr and Mrs Zeta want to name their baby Zeta so that its monogram (First, Middle, Last initials)
will be in alphabetical order with no letters required. How many such monograms are possible?
a. 500
b. 425
c. 300
d. 150

4.

Find the standard deviation of the following distribution:

4
a. 16

5.

b. 4

8
c. 0

12
d. 8

It refers to each member of the population has an equal likely chance of being selected. The
members of the sample are chosen independently of each other.
a. convenience sample b. random sample
c. stratified sample d. cluster sample

SITUATION 1: If two coins are tossed,

6.
7.
8.

What is the probability obtaining at least one tail?

a. 0.5
b. 0.75
c. 0.33

d. 0.25

What is the probability obtaining at most one head?

a. 0.5
b. 0.75
c. 0.33

d. 0.25

How many bishops can one put on a standard chessboard such that no two bishops can hit each
other?
a. 64
b. 32
c. 14
d. 7

SITUATION 2: Two dice are thrown simultaneously.

9.

Find the probability that the number of spots uppermost is 4.

a. 1/12
b. 2/3
c. 1/4

d. 4/9

10. Find the probability that the number of spots uppermost is 9 or more.
a. 2/3
b. 5/18
c. 7/36
d. 8/9
11. Find the probability that the number of spots uppermost is either 7 or 11.
a. 1/9
b, 2/3
c. 3/4
d. 2/9
12. Table shows how 10 students arranged in alphabetical order were ranked according to their
achievements on both laboratory and lecture sections of Surveying course. Find the coefficient
of rank correlation.

Hint : Spearmans correlation coefficient is given by

a. 0.7822

b. 0.8109

c. 0.8545

13. Find the range of this set: 12,6,7,3,15,10,18,5.

a. 12
b. 2
c. 15

d. 0.9237
d. 7

14. The boat travels 25 km. at 25 kph, at 50 kph, and 75 kph. Find the harmonic mean of the three
velocities.

a. 50 kph

b. 40.9

c. 25

d. 31.2

SITUATION 3: Determine the following probability problems.

15. A king, ace, jack of clubs, or queen of diamonds appears in drawing a single card from a well
shuffled ordinary or deck of cards.
a. 5/26
b. 7/8
c. 0.98
d. 2/9
16. A non-defective bolt will be found if our 600 bolts, 12 are defective.
a. 5/26
b. 7/8
c. 0.98
d. 2/9
17. At least one head appears in three tosses of a fair coin.
a. 5/26
b. 7/8
c. 0.98

d. 2/9

18. A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls. If two balls are drawn in replacement, what is the
probability that both balls are black?
a. 5/14
b. 10/14
c. 25/196
d. 25/64
19. A classroom in a review center contains 71 students, 10 of them are Kapampangans, 24 are
Bulakenyos and 37 are Manilenos. If three students are randomly asked to get out of the room,
one after one another, what is the probability that all 3 students are Kapampangans?
a. 0.0064
b. 0.0037
c. 0.0021
d. 0.0008
20. The number of events associated with a sample space having n outcomes is:
a. n!
b. n
c.2^n
d. n^2
21. Data was collected about four type of drug dependents who were killed in operation tokhang. The
number of reported by PNP is displayed below:
Drug Dependents
Users/Pushers
Dealers
with Crimes
other Causes

Frequency
30
25
7
5

What is the probability that one of the recorded kills is a pusher?

a. 25/77
b.30/67
c. 40/51
d. 38/82
22. A restaurant is giving away 3 different toys with each childs meal. What is the probability of
getting all three toys when purchasing 5 meals?
a. 0.6173
b. 0.8204
c. 0.7916
d. 0.5713
23. If the standard deviation of the mean for the sampling distribution of random samples of size 36
from a large or infinite population is 2, how large must the size of the sample become if the
standard deviation is to be reduced to 1.2?
a. 150
b. 110
c. 100
d. 96
24. A shelf contains 3 timber books, 4 steel books, and 5 concrete books. In how many different
orders can they be arranged if all books of the same color must be kept?
a. 112,799
b. 103,680
c. 146,255
d. 181761
SITUATION 4: A student taking a true-false test consisting of 10 questions guesses at the answers.
Assuming that he is equally likely to make a correct or incorrect guess on the answers,
25. Find the probability that he will get a perfect score.
a. 1/32768
b. 6435/32768
c. 15/32768

d. 10/32768

26. Find the probability that he will get 8 correct answers.

a. 1/32768
b. 6435/32768
c. 15/32768

d. 10/32768

27. Find the probability that he will get 9 correct answers.

a. 1/32768
b. 6435/32768
c. 15/32768

d. 10/32768

28. In lifetime, in weeks, of a certain type of transistor is known to follow a gamma distribution
with mean 10 weeks and standard deviation of 50 weeks. What is the probability that the
transistor will last is at most 50 weeks? Use gamma distribution of probability.
Hint:

a. 0.9245

b. 0.9995

c. 0.9826

d. 0.9376

29. Kahwi Leonard, NBAs best defensive prospects averages 2 steals per game. What is the
probability that he will have 4 steals in the next game versus the Clippers? Use Poissons
probability distribution.
a. 0.0894
b. 0.1010
c. 0.1266
d. 0.1429
30. Given the frequency distribution below, calculate P sub 10.
Scores in Statics
Class Interval
60-62
57-59
54-56
51-53
48-50
45-47
42-44
39-41
36-38
33-35
N
a. 38.4

b. 41.5

Frequency
2
2
4
5
11
8
4
2
1
1
40

c. 44.7

d. 48.6

31. In testing hypothesis, the maximum probability with which we would be willing to risk a Type I
error is called:
a. Decision Rules
b. Significance Level c. Normal Distribution d. Errors
32. If a man purchases a raffle ticket, he can win a first prize of P 5000 or a second prize of P
2000 with probabilities of 0.001 and 0.003 respectively. What should be a fair price to pay the
ticket?
a. P 20
b. P 15
c. P 11
d. P 10
33. Find the variance of the following numbers: -14,-4,-10,-12,5,-1.
a. 47.84
b. 46.59
c. 45.02

d. 44.33

34. DeAndre Jordan improve his free throw shooting that he averages 70%. What is the probability
that he will hit the 3rd free throw on the fifth attempt?
a. 0.1852
b. 0.3087
c. 0.2646
d. 0.0794
35. Telephone numbers in the province start with 451. If the end and beginning of the next four
numbers cannot be zero, how many possible numbers can be formed?
a. 7290
b. 6561
c. 10000
d. 6561
36. A certain lotto game consists of 30 different balls. If 5 balls were drawn in any order, how
many possible combinations can be made?
a. 142,506
b. 142560
c. 17,100,702
d. 17,100,720
37. How many 4 digit numbers can be formed without repeating any digit from the following digits
1,2,3,4 and 6.
a. 150
b. 120
c. 140
d. 130
38. In a dice game, one fair is used. The player wins P 20 if he rolls either 1 or 6. He loses P 10
if the others turn up. What is the expected winning for one roll of the die?
a. 40
b. 0
c. 20
d. 10
39. A class of 40 took examination in Hydrology and Transportation Engineering. If 30 passed in
Hydrology , 36 passed in Transportation Engineering, and 2 failed in both subjects, the number
of students who passed the two subjects is:

a. 2

b. 8

c. 28

d. 25

40. How many permutations can be made out of the letters in the word ISLAND taking four letters at a
time?
a. 360
b. 720
c. 120
d. 24
41. The Cleveland Cavaliers has a .75 winning when playing any of the other four teams in its
division. If the games are independent, what is the probability the team clinches division title
assume only 1 game is allowed against each other?
a. 0.2175
b. 0.4215
c. 0.4706
d. 0.3164
42. A balanced coin is tossed three times. Find the probability that exactly two of the three will
result in tails.
a. 1/4
b. 3/8
c. 3/4
d.
43. If probability A = B = 0.15 , C = 0.4, and D = 2E , find the probability of D.
a. 0.2
b. 0.1
c. 0.05
d. 0.15
44. A machine operation produces bearing with diameters such that are normally distributed with mean
3.0005 in and standard deviation of 0.0010 inch. Specifications require bearing diameters to lie
in the interval 3.0000.0020 inches. Those outside the interval are considered scrap and must be
repaired. What should the mean diameter in order to that the fraction of bearings scrapped be
minimized?
a. 3.001
b. 3.005
c. 3
d. 2.995
45. The time taken by a terminal fee collector to collect terminal fees from NAIA has an exponential
distribution with a mean of 23 seconds. Find the probability that the random passenger will be
processed in 25 seconds or higher?
a. 0.294
b. 0.337
c. 0.405
d. 0.519
46. Find the range of the following set of numbers: 159,285,490,392,375,298
a. 331
b. 475
c. 289
d. 301
47. A bag contains 200 marbles. There are 60 red ones, 60 blue ones, and the remaining 20 consist of
yellow and white ones. If marbles are chosen from the bag without looking, what is the smallest
number of marbles one must pick in order to ensure that, among the chosen marbles, at least 20
are of the same color? Hint: Use Pigeonhole Principle. Assume the each color has picked one on
20 of the same color.
a. 75
b. 78
c. 81
d. 84
48. The probability that Nicole studies and passes her Design test is 0.45. If the probability that
she studies is 0.80, what is probability that she passes Design test, given that she has
studied?
a. 0.60
b. 0.44
c. 0.74
d. 0.56
49. The arrangement of data in a particular manner is called:
a. Ogive
b. Array
c. Frequency

d. Range

50. Two urns contain the same total number of balls, some blacks and some whites in each. From each
urn are drawn n 3 balls with replacement. Find the number of drawings and the composition of
the two urns so that the probability that all white balls are drawn from the first urn is equal
to the probability that the drawing from the second is either all whites or all blacks. Use
Fermats conjecture. The impossible number of draws is less than:

a. 1500

b. 2000

c. 3500

d. 500

51. It is the numerical value in the central region of a distribution of values.

a. Variation
b. Regression
c. Central Tendency
d. Deviation