Pangasinan State University

School of Advanced Studies

Urdaneta City

MM 212 – Probability and Statistics

Midterm Examinations

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Answer the following: Show your complete solutions including illustrations and box the
final answers. For answers that are not whole numbers, you may express your answers
using fraction or up to 4 decimal places.

1. Two cards are drawn successively from an ordinary deck of 52 well-shuffled cards.
Find the probability that (16pts)
a. the first card is not a ten of clubs or an ace;
b. the first card is an ace but the second is not;
c. at least one card is a diamond;
d. the cards are not of the same suit;
e. not more than 1 card is a picture card ( jack, queen, king);
f. the second card is not a picture card;
g. the second card is not a picture card given that the first was a picture card;
h. the cards are picture cards or spades or both.

2. Out of 800 families with 5 children each, how many would you expect to have (9pts)
a. 3 boys,
b. 5 girls,
c. either 2 or 3 boys?
Assume equal probabilities for boys and girls.

3. If the heights of 300 students are normally distributed with mean 68.0 inches and
standard deviation 3.0 inches, how many students have heights (12pts)
a. greater than 72 inches,
b. less than or equal to 64 inches,
c. between 65 and 71 inches inclusive,
d. equal to 68 inches?
Assume the measurements to be recorded to the nearest inch.

4. A box contains 5 red and 10 white marbles. If 8 marbles are to be chosen at random
(without replacement), determine the probability that (9pts)
a. 4 will be red,
b. all will be white,
c. at least one will be red.

5. In how many ways can 7 books be arranged on a shelf if (9pts)

a. any arrangement is possible,
b. 3 particular books must always stand together,
c. two particular books must occupy the ends?
6. In a study of 10 insurance sales representatives from a certain large city, the average
age of the group was 48.6 years and the standard deviation was 4.1 years. Assume the
variable is normally distributed. Find the 95% confidence interval of the population
mean age of all insurance sales representatives in that city. (6pts)

7. The mean weight of 15-year-old males is 142 pounds, and the standard deviation is
12.3 pounds. If a sample of thirty-six 15-yearold males is selected, find the
probability that the mean of the sample will be greater than 144.5 pounds. Assume
the variable is normally distributed. Based on your answer, would you consider the
group overweight? (5pts)

8. Construct a probability distribution for drawing a card from a deck of 40 cards

consisting of 10 cards numbered 1, 10 cards numbered 2, 15 cards numbered 3, and
5 cards numbered 4. Find the mean and standard deviation.(9pts)

9. Determine the value of c for which the function below will be a probability density
function. (5pts)
3 4
10. 𝑓(𝑥) = {𝑐(8𝑥 − 𝑥 ) 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒
if 0≤𝑥≤8
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Prepared by:

MICHAEL HOWARD D. MORADA, PhD