LECTURE PROBLEMS:

Three lottery tickets are drawn from 40 for first, second

and third prizes. Find the number of sample points in S
for awarding the three prizes if no contestant can win
more than one prize.

A certain college campus, 250 of the 3500 coed

enrolled are over 5 ft, 6 inches in height. Find the
probability that a coed chosen at random from the
group of 3500 has a height of less than 5 ft, 6 inches.
Four married couples have bought 8 seats in a row for
concert. In how many different ways can they be
seated, if all the men sit together to the right of all
women?

How many 3 digit numbers can be formed the digit

0,1,2,3,4,5, and 6 if each digit can be used only once
and greater than 330?
Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up then a ticket is
drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket
drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?

How many subsets of one or more elements can be

formed from a set containing 12 elements?

In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three

students are selected at random. The probability that 1
girl and 2 boys are selected is:
 no defective articles are found in the sample. Find the
probability that a box will be passed if it contains 2
defectives.

What is the probability that a coin will turn up heads

twice in 6 tosses of the coin?

A dice is used in a dice games. The player wins P10 if

he rolls either a 1 or 6 and losses P5 if he turns up any
other face. What is the expected winning for one roll of
the die?

Certain manufactured articles are sold in boxes of 25

each. They are inspected by taking a random sample of
5 from each box and passing the box as satisfactory if

Pre-Test and Post Test laboratory from a local supplier. The supplier has 10
computers in stock of which 4 foreign made. How many
1. A high school wants to buy 6 computers for its ways are there to buy 6 computers from the supplier? If
4 domestic and 2 foreign?
2. From 4 red, 5 green , and 6 yellow apples, how many
selections of 9 apples are possible if 3 of each color are
to be selected?
3. A baseball player has a batting average of 0.2.
Assuming that this may be used as the probability that
he will get a hit, find the a.) get exactly 2 hits in 4 times
b.) at most 1 hit in 5 times.
4. On a multiple choice test 1 has 4 choices and
problem 2 has 3 choices. Each problem has only one
correct answer. What is the probability of randomly
guessing the correct answer to 60th problems.
5. A stockist has 20 items in a lot. Out of which 12 are
non defective and 8 defective. A customer selects 3
items from the 20 lot. What is the probability that out of
these 3 items, three items are non-defective and
defective.