STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

1. 10 letters were addressed to 10 different women. What is the probability that the
persons and the corresponding committee will have at most 2 men?
envelopes are prepared. The letters are
a. 59/143 b. 84/143
put into the envelopes at random. What
is the probability that no letter is in its c. 140/429 d. 37/429
proper envelope? 7. How many permutations can be made
out of the letters in the word ISLAND
a. 1/e b. 0.552 taking four letters at a time?
c. 0.3788 d. 0.333
a. 360 b. 720
2. Let Qn denote the probability that in n
tosses of a fair coin no 3 consecutive c. 120 d. 24
heads appear. Find the exact value of 8. How many ways can 5 people line up to
Q6. pay their electric bills if two particular
persons refuse to follow each other?
a. 3/64 b. 11/16
c. 5/8 d. 3/7 a. 120 b. 72
3. A student receives his grades as follows: c. 90 d. 140
9. How many ways can 7 people be seated
Subject Grad Unit at a round table?
e s
Algebra 1.5 5 a. 5040 b. 120
English 1.75 3 c. 720 d. 840
Philosoph 1.25 2 10. Which of the following cannot be a
y probability?
Chemistry 2.5 4
Drawing 1.0 2 a. 1 b. 0
What is the student's weighted average? c. 1/e d. 0.434343
11. The probability that both stages of a
a. 1.6 b. 1.7
two-stage rocket to function correctly is
c. 1.75 d. 1.65 0.92. The reliability of the first stage is
4. Given S = {2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 15, 18, 20, 23, 0.97. The reliability of the second stage
46}. Calculate the 25th percentile is:
a. 2 b. 5 a. 0.948 b. 0.958
c. 3 d. 8 c. 0.968 d. 0.8924
5. An electrical firm manufactures light 12. A semiconductor company will hire 7
bulbs that have a life, before burn-out, men and 4 women. In how many ways
that is normally distributed with mean can the company choose from 9 men
equal to 800 hours and a standard and 6 women who qualified for the
deviation of 40 hours. Find the position?
probability that a bulb burns between
778 and 834. a. 680 b. 840
c. 480 d. 540
a. 0.5111 b. 0.6215
13. How many ways can you invite one or
c. 0.2546 d. 0.3615 more of five friends to a party?
6. A committee of 5 people is to be
selected from a group of 6 men and 7 a. 25 b. 15
 c. 31 d. 62 many will have a resistance exceeding
14. There are 10 defectives per 1000 items 43 ohms?
of a product in a long run. What is the
a. 34 b. 20
probability that there is one and only
c. 150 d. 90
one defective in a random lot of 100?
a. 0.3697 b. 0.3967
c. 0.3796 d. 0.3679
15. In a dice game, one fair die is used. The
player wins P 20.00 if he rolls either 1
or 6. He losses P 10.00 if he turns up
any other face. What is the expected
winning for one roll of the die?
a. P 40.00 b. P 0.00
c. P 20.00 d. P 10.00
16. A marksman hits 75% of all his targets.
What is the probability that he will hit
exactly 4 of his next 10 shots?
a. 0.01622 b. 0.4055
c. 0.004055 d. 0.001622
17. What is the variance of a standard
normal curve?
a. 1 b. 0
c. ½ d. -1/2
18. This states that if n items are put into m
containers, with n>m, then at least one
container must contain more than one
item.
a. Legendre's principle
b. Burnside lemma
c. Pigeonhole principle
d. Fubini's inequality
19. We flip a fair coin 10 times. What is the
probability that we get heads in at least
8 of the 10 flips?
a. 45/1024 b. 7/128
c. 47/1024 d. 5/128
20. A certain machine makes electrical
resistors having a mean resistance of 40
ohms and a standard deviation of 2
ohms. Assuming that the resistance
follows a normal distribution and can be
measured to any degree of accuracy, for
a total of 300 resistors made, about how
1 A
2 B
3 B
4 D
5 A
6 B
7 A
8 B
9 C
10 C
11 A
12 D
13 C
Answer Key
14 A
15 B
16 A
17 A
18 C
19 B
20 B