I.

MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Listing the elements of subsets of a given set is an example of __________.
a. Combination
b. Differentiation
c. Integration
d. Permutation
2. Which of the following situations illustrate permutation?
a. Selecting 7 people to form a Student Affairs Committee
b. Choosing 5 questions to answer out of 10 questions in a test
c. Entering the PIN (Personal Identification Number) of your ATM Card
d. Forming triangles from 6 distinct points in which no 3 points are collinear
3. Which situation illustrates combination?
a. Assembling a jigsaw puzzle
b. Four people posing for pictures
c. Picking 6 balls from a basket of 13 balls
d. Determining the top three winners in a Science Quiz Bee
4. Two different arrangements of objects where some of them are identical are called
___________.
a. Distinguishable Permutations
b. Circular Combinations
c. Circular Permutations
d. Unique Combinations
5. A close friend invited Diane to her birthday party. Diane has 4 new blouses (stripes, with
ruffles, sleeveless and long sleeve) and 3 skirts (blue, white and black) in her closet
reserved for such occasions. How many blouse-and-skirt pairs are possible?
a. 6
b. 12
c. 24
d. 48
6. Suppose you secured your bike using a combination lock. Later, you realized that you
forgot the 4-digit code. You only remembered that the code contains the digits 1, 2, 5
and 9. How many possible codes are there?
a. 12
b. 24
c. 36
d. 48
7. If Joan has 12 blouses, 6 pairs of jeans and 3 pairs of sandals, how many possibilities can
she dress herself up for the day?
a. 54
b. 108
c. 216
 d. 432
8. How many ways can 6 people arrange themselves in a row for picture taking?
a. 120
b. 360
c. 720
d. 1440
9. If P(n, 3) = 504, what is n?
a. 5
b. 6
c. 8
d. 9
10. Given the 4-letter word LEAD. In how many ways can we arrange its letters, 3 at a time?
a. 6
b. 12
c. 24
d. 48
11. Find the number of permutations of the letters of the word EVEN.
a. 8
b. 12
c. 16
d. 24
12. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word CAREER.
a. 90
b. 180
c. 370
d. 720
13. In how many ways can 4 people be seated around a circular table?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 6
d. 8
14. If P(7,r) = 840, what is r?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
d. 6
15. What is P(8,6)?
a. 6 720
b. 10 080
c. 20 160
d. 40 320
16. A soloist is auditioning for a musical play. If she is required to sing any three of the 7
prepared songs, in how many ways can she make her choice?
17. At Kyla’s Pizza Parlor, there are six different toppings where a customer can order any
number of these toppings. If you dine at the said pizza parlor, with how many possible
toppings can you actually order your pizza?
18. In a dance contest, each participating group must perform 3 kinds of dance. If there are
5 choices for ballroom dance, 6 choices for foreign dance, and 4 choices of hip hop, in
how many possible ways can a dance group select their piece?
19. If there are 10 teams in a basketball tournament and each team must play every other
team in the eliminations, how many elimination games will there be?
20. If C(n, 2) = 78, what is n?
21. What is C(8, 5)?
22. If C(6, r) = 15, what is r?
23. A die is rolled once. What is the probability of obtaining an even number?
24. A box contains 3 red balls, 5 yellow balls and 2 blue balls. If a ball is picked at random
from the box, what is the probability that a ball picked is a blue ball?
25. Sofia likes to wear colored shirts. She has 20 shirts in her closet. Six of these are blue,
four are in different shades of red, two are black and the rest are of different colors.
What is the probability that she will wear a blue or a black shirt?
26. Carlo puts 28 marbles in a box in which 10 are red, 12 are blue and 6 are yellow. If Carlo
picks one marble at random, what is the probability that he selects a red marble or a
yellow marble?
27. A bowl contains 20 chips numbered 1 to 20. If a chip is drawn randomly from the bowl,
what is the probability that it is a number divisible by 3 or 4?
28. A restaurant serves a bowl of candies to their customers. The bowl of candies received
by Henry contains 12 chocolate candies, 10 coffee candies and 8 caramel candies. After
Henry chooses a candy, he eats it. What is the probability that Henry chooses a
chocolate or coffee flavoured candy?
29. Sherly has 20 red chips, 16 blue chips and 24 white chips. What is the probability that
Sherly randomly selects a blue chip or a white chip?
30. Of 100 students, 64 are on the honor roll, 37 are members of the varsity team, and 29
are in the honor roll and also members of the varsity team. What is the probability that
a randomly selected student is on the honor roll or is a member of the varsity team?
31. Jimmy’s basketball shooting records indicate that for any frame, the probability that he
will score in a two-point shoot is 35%, a three-point shoot, 50%, and neither, 15%. What
is the probability that Jimmy will score either in a two-point shoot or in a three-point
shoot?
32. Two men and three women are in a committee. Two of the five are to be chosen to
serve as officers. What is the probability that both officers will be women given that at
least one is a woman?
33. Carla, Shaira, Vivien, Xyra and Charice are competing for two roles in a drama play.
Assume that the two to get roles will be randomly chosen from the five girls. What is the
conditional probability that Xyra gets a role if we know that Shaira does not get a role?
34. Consider a box that contains 10 red balls, 6 blue balls, and 4 yellow balls. Suppose that
two balls are drawn one after the other without putting back the first ball. What is the
probability that both balls are blue?
35. Consider a box that contains 8 red balls, 7 blue balls and 5 yellow balls. A ball is drawn at
random and the color is noted and then put back inside the box. Then, another ball is
drawn at random. Find the probability that the first is red and the second is yellow.
36. A bag contains 4 black marbles, 7 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles and 6 green marbles. A
marble is randomly selected, replaced, and a second marble is randomly selected. FFind
the probability of selecting a blue marble, then a green marble.
37. A rental agency has 10 black cars, 6 gray cars, 7 red cars, and 3 blue cars for rent. Mr.
Cortex rents a car, returns it because the radio is broken, and gets another car. What is
the probability that Mr. Cortez is given a black car and then a blue car?
38. A box of chocolates contains 8 milk chocolates, 12 dark chocolates and 10 white
chocolates. Clarissa randomly chooses a chocolate, eats it, and then randomly chooses
another chocolate. What is the probability that Clarissa chose a milk chocolate, and
then, a dark chocolate?
39. A toy box contains 10 toys, 8 stuffed animals, and 6 board games. Cassandra randomly
chooses 2 toys for the child she is babysitting to play with. What is the probability that
she chose 2 stuffed animals as the first two choices?
40. A basket contains 6 apples, 4 bananas, 7 oranges and 3 guavas. Nathan randomly
chooses one piece of fruit, eats it, and chooses another piece of fruit. What is the
probability that he chose an apple and then a orange?
41. Bevan has 5 black pens, 3 blue pens and 2 red pens in his school bag. He randomly picks
two pens out of his school bag. What is the probability that he chose two black pens, if
he replaced the first pen back in his pocket before choosing a second pen?
II. MATCHING TYPE
A.
1. P(n, 4) = 3024
2. P(7, r) = 42
3. P(10, 7) =
4. P(12, r) = 1320
5. P(9, 4) =
B.
1. C(8,3) =
2. C(14, 10) =
3. C(n, 3) = 35
4. C(12, r) = 66
5. C(9, 9) =
III. TRUE OR FALSE
1. The probability of a compound event can be calculated of its outcomes are
equally likely. – true
2. When the sample space is finite, any subset of the sample space is an event –
true
3. In each event, a probability is assigned. – true
4. Events can be mutually exclusive or not mutually exclusive. – true
5. If two events, A and B, are mutually exclusive, then the probability that either A
or B occurs is the sum of their probabilities. – true
6. If two events, A and B, are not mutually exclusive then the probability that either
A or B occurs is the sum of their probabilities decreased by the probability of
both of them occurring. – True
7. The two events are independent if the events have no influence on each other. –
True
8. If two events are independent, then the probability of both events occurring is
the product of their probability. – true
9. Dependent events happen when the outcome of one event affects the outcome
of another effect. – true
10. Conditional probability of an event B given A is the probability that the event B
will occur given that an event A has already occurred. – true
11. Winning in a contest is an example of permutation. – true
12. Choosing a subset of a set is an example of a combination. – true
13. A situation or problem involves permutation if the order of the object is
important. – true
14. The product of the positive integer n and all the positive integers less than n is n-
Factorial. – true
15. Circular permutations of n objects refers to the different arrangements of the
objects when arranged in a circle. – true
16. There are 252 ways to select 5 problems to solve from a 10-item mathematics
problem solving test. – true
17. A situation or problem involves combination if the order of the object is not
important. – true
18. Two different arrangements of objects where some of them are identical are
called distinguishable permutations. – true
19. There are 5040 possible distinguishable permutations with all the letters of the
word ELLIPSIS. – true
20. Six family members can be seated around a circular table with six chairs in 120
ways. – true
IV. COMPLETION TYPE
1. Activities such as rolling a die, tossing a coin, or randomly choosing a ball from a
box which could be repeated over and over again and which have well-defined
results are called _______________.
2. The results of an experiment are called ___________.
3. The set of all outcomes in an experiment is called a ___________.
4. An event is a ___________ of the sample space.
5. The set of all outcomes that are not in the event is called _____________.
6. A composition of two or more simple events is called ____________.
7. Events that cannot occur at the same time is called _________________.
8. Two events are ____________ if the occurrence of one of the events gives us no
information about whether or not the other event will occur.
9. When the outcome of one event affects the outcome of another event, they are
________.
10. The set of possible outcomes resulting from a particular experiment is called
_________.
11. The set that contains all of the elements that are in both events is
____________.
12. The diagram that uses circles to represent sets in which the relations between
the sets are indicated by the arrangement of the circles is called _____________
13. Mutually exclusive events are also referred to as ____________.
14. The different possible arrangements of a set of objects is ____________.
15. Combination is the number of ways of selecting from a set when the
___________ is not important