MATH 245 QUIZ 1 NAME_________________

SPRING 2017 ID #____________

DUE: Thursday, Feb. 9 12:45 P.M.

Show all work and indicate all solutions on separate paper and attach this sheet to your work.
Each problem is worth 4 pts.

For problems 1-3, a fair coin is tossed 4 times.

1. Let HHTT be the outcome that the first two tosses are heads and the next two are tails. List all
the possible outcomes in the sample space.

2. Find the probability that a toss has at least 3 heads.

3. Find the probability that no toss has a tail.

4. How many integers that are multiples of 4 are between 1 and 1002?

5. What is the probability that a randomly chosen positive two-digit integer between 1 and 1002 is
a multiple of four?

6. In the first ever discrete Olympics, 25 students enter the million mile race. In how many ways
can first, second and third place be awarded?

7. In the NBA finals, the first team to win four games wins the championship. Suppose the
Lakers win the first 2 games. In how many ways can the series be completed. Hint: draw a
tree.

8. In another state, all license plates consist of 6 symbols chosen from the 26 letters of the
alphabet and the digits 0-9. How many license plates are possible if there must be exactly 3
letters and 3 numbers with no repititions (letters followed by numbers)?

9. A pair of fair dice are rolled. Find the probability of rolling a sum that is a multiple of 3 or a
multiple of 4.

10. At Apathy U, the three most popular majors are study hall, finger painting, and dot-to-dot. Of
the 1000 students attending the university, 297 were majoring in study hall, 285 were majoring
in finger painting, 312 were majoring in dot-to-dot, 106 were majoring in both study hall and
finger painting, 93 were majoring in both study hall and dot-to-dot, 127 were majoring in both
finger painting and dot-to-dot, and 41 were majoring in all three. How many students weren't
majoring in any of the three?