Rizal Technological University

Electronics Engineering Review

ECECOR1: Review in Mathematics

NAME: ________________________________________ DATE: __________ RATING: ______

PROBLEM SET 3: STATISTICS, SETS & PROBABILITY

DIRECTION: Answer the following problems in the space provided. Use the back of the page if solution space is not enough. NO ERASURES.

PROBLEMS SOLUTION ANSWER

1. A bag has 4 red marbles, 5 white marbles and 6
blue marbles. Three marbles are drawn from the
bag without replacement. What is the probability
that they are all the same color?

2. During an acquaintance party, each person shake

hands with all the other in the party. If there were a
total of 91 handshakes, how many persons attend
the party?

3. In a commercial survey involving 1000 persons and

brand reference, 120 were found to prefer brand X
only, 200 prefer brand Y only, 150 prefer brand Z
only, 370 prefer either brand X or Y but not Z, 450
prefer either brand Y or Z but not X, and 420 prefer
either Z or X but not Y. How many persons have no
brand preference satisfied with any of the three
brands?
a.
4. In drawing of two cards in a standard deck one at a
time without replacement, what is the probability
that you will not get an ace on the second draw if it
is given that you did not draw ace on the first draw?

5. What is the cardinality of the set of odd positive

integers less than 10?

6. In how many ways can 6 ladies be seated in a round

table if 2 particular ladies must not sit next to each
other?

7. During the given month, ten farmers sold 13, 17,

10, 18, 18, 9, 17, 13, 15, 14 sacks of rice
respectively. What is the mode of this group of
data?

8. What is the Cardinality of the Power set of the set

{0, 1, 2}.

9. On the first six tests, Jay’s scores were 95, 91, 92,
78, 92 and 86. If Jay took a seventh test and raised
his test’s mean by exactly +1, what was his score
on the seventh test?

10. A gardener plants three maple trees, four oaks and

five birch trees in a row. He plants in random order,
each arrangement being equally likely. Let m/n be
 the probability that no two birch trees are next to
one another. Find m + n.

11. In a guessing type of exam with 4 choices, what is

the probability that you will get at least 7 of the 10
items?

12. What is the probability that of 5 cards dealt from a

well-shuffled deck, 3 will be hearts and two
spades?

13. How many four-digit numbers can be performed

without repeating any digit, from the following
digit 1,2,3,4 and 6?

14. Find the quadratic mean of {1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.0, 1.1}

15. Meiko King travels 100 miles at the rate of 30 mph

and then on a free way travels the next 100 miles at
the rate of 55 mph. What is her average speed?

16. Find the probability of getting a sum of 7 on the

first of two dice and a sum of 4 on the second
throw.

17. The probability of throwing at least 3 aces in 5

throws of a die.

18. A committee of 5 people is to be selected from a

group of 6 men and 7 women. What is the
probability that the committee will have at least 3
men?

19. Twenty five of King Arthur's knights are seated at

their customary round table. Three of them are
chosen - all choices being equally likely - and are
sent of to slay a troublesome dragon. Let be the
probability that at least two of the three had been
sitting next to each other. If is written as a fraction
in lowest terms, what is the sum of the numerator
and the denominator?
20. The probability that it will rain on Saturday is 55%
and the probability that it will rain on Sunday is
30% . If there is a 15% chance of rain on both
Saturday and Sunday, what is the probability of
rain on either Saturday or Sunday?