10 MATH

TRIVIA/PUZZLE FOR
STATISTICS AND
PROBABILITY

Submitted By: Magboo, Kyle Lorenz L.

Submitted To: Joel Jizmundo
1. You have 4 coins. Three of the coins are normal, but one of
them is heads on both sides. You pick a coin at random
without looking. The coin you pick has heads on one side.
What are the odds that if you flip the coin over, the other
side will be tails?

2. There is a carnival game that requires you to roll two

standard 6-sided dice. If the sum of the dice rolls is a prime
number, then you win. What is the probability of winning?

3. I have 18 blue marbles, 16 green marbles and 22 red

marbles in a bag. What is the chance I will pick a green
marble if I pick a marble out at random (simplify the
answer)?

4. You run an office that employs 23 people. What is the

probability that two of your employees have the same
birthday? For the purposes of the problem, ignore February
29.

5. What is the probability you will get all 10 questions in this

quiz correct if you narrow the options down so you have 2
answers to choose between, and 1 of them is correct?
6. I choose two different numbers between 1 and 10 (1 and
10 are included). You try to guess the two numbers, in any
order. How much chance do you have to guess both numbers
correctly in one attempt?

7. A box contains one of each of the bills: $1, $5, $10, $20,
$50, and $100. If you randomly draw three bills, then what
are the odds that the three bills add to $75?

8. If you're randomly calling students of a university to get

the students' opinion on an increase on tuition costs, which
students would you miss if you were guilty of
undercoverage?

9. A bus is guaranteed to arrive at the bus stop between 8:00

am and 8:15 am. It is no more likely to arrive at any time
than any other time in this interval (i.e. the probability
density function is uniform). What is the probability that the
bus will arrive at 8:05 am?

10. I draw 1 card from a standard 52-card pack of cards. All

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the cards had an equal chance of being picked. What is the
MATHEMATICIANS
chance I did NOT pick a face card?
IN
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
 1. Aleksandr Mikhailovich
Lyapunov
Aleksandr Lyapunov was a Russian
mathematician best known for his development of
the stability theory of a dynamical system. He
also made contributions to mathematical physics
and probability theory.

2. Isaac Todhunter
is best known for his textbooks and his writing
on the history of mathematics.
 3. Anderson, Theodore Wilbur
Theodore Anderson, emeritus professor in
statistics and economics, was a leading authority
in Econometrics and was one of the first people at
Stanford to hold appointments in two
departments.

4. Oscar Kempthorne
was a British statistician and geneticist known for his
research on randomization-analysis and the design of
experiments, which had wide influence on research in
agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science.
 5. Wassily Hoeffding
Was one of the founding fathers of nonparametric
statistics, the science of analyzing data without
making unnecessarily restrictive assumptions about
their origin.

6. Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg

Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg was a Finnish
mathematician known for work on the central
limit theorem.

7. Frank Spitzer
was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made
fundamental contributions to probability theory, including
the theory of random walks, fluctuation theory, percolation
theory, the Wiener sausage, and especially the theory of
interacting particle systems.

8. Erich Leo Lehmann

was an American statistician, who made a major contribution
to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the
eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the
Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population.
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INSPIRATIONAL VERSE IN
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

9. David George Kendall

FRS was an English statistician and mathematician,
known for his work on probability, statistical shape
analysis, ley lines and queueing theory.

10. Richard Carl Jeffrey

Richard Carl Jeffrey was an American philosopher,
logician, and probability theorist.
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