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1. A car plate is composed of 6 characters, the first three are letters from the 17. A chest contains 10 black marbles, 8 white marbles, 8 red marbles and 2
alphabet and the next three are numbers. How many different car plates yellow marbles. You are allowed to pull out a black marble from the box
are possible? and keep it, if you are to pull out another marble at random, what is the
a. 2684 c. 17576000 probability that you will pull out another black marble?
b. 5368 d. 11232000 a. 0.3571 c. 0.3333
2. In how many ways can 6 engineers and 5 architects be arranged in a b. 0.3214 d. 0.3704
bench if engineers and architects are alternate? 18. A batch of electronics part contain 16, which are within power tolerance
a. 1440 c. 86400 and 4 which are not. If 3 electronics are selected at random from the
b. 2880 d. 720 batch, compute the probabilities that all three are within power tolerance.
3. How many arrangements of the letters of the word LAWYER are possible if a. 0.0071 c. 0.3929
they don’t begin with LA? b. 0.4912 d. 0.3223
a. 24 c. 512 19. In a certain barangay, 80% of the population has cellphones. If two person
b. 720 d. 696 are selected at random from the population, find the probability that one
4. How many numbers greater than 5000 can be arranged from the digits of the two persons selected has one and the other has none.
3,4,5,6,7? a. 0.32 c. 0.64
a. 192 c. 360 b. 0.16 d. 0.48
b. 120 d. 72 20. In a common carnival game, a player tosses a penny from a distance of
5. Given the word PARALLEL. Find the number of different 8-letter about 5 feet onto the surface of a table rule in 1-inch squares. If the penny
arrangements that can be formed. (3/4 inch in diameter) falls entirely inside a square, the player gets his
a. 3360 c. 72 penny back. Otherwise he loses his penny. If the penny lands on the table,
b. 192 d. 360 determine his chance to win.
6. In a certain town in the Philippines, all seven-digit telephone numbers a. 3/8 c. 1/16
begin with 350. How many telephone numbers may be assigned to that b. 1/8 d. 1/4
town if the last four digits shout not begin or end with zero? 21. According to statistics 30% of smokers want to quit smoking in a random
a. 5832 c. 5184 of 12 smokers. What is the probability that the number of who want to
b. 8100 d. 9000 quit smoking is exactly 6?
7. How many ways can gold, silver and bronze medals be awarded in a quiz a. 0.0792 c. 0.0544
show with 12 participants? b. 0.0679 d. 0.0093
a. 220 c. 1728 22. A Quality Assurance Engineer’s job in a particular company is to test
b. 1320 d. 440 whether 95% of the company’s products conform to design plans and
8. In how many ways can a group of 14 people be seated on 4 chairs? specifications. In order to accomplish her job, a random batch of 16
a. 38416 c. 24024 products is selected. The production for the day is acceptable if no more
b. 2184 d. 1001
than 1 product fails to meet the plans and specifications. Find the
9. At testimonial dinner, 5 men and 5 women sit at a round table. Find the
probability that the engineer incorrectly passes a day’s production as
number of ways they can sit if men and women alternate.
acceptable if only 70% of the company’s production for the day actually
a. 5040 c. 576
conforms to the plans and specifications?
b. 120 d. 181440
a. 0.1382 c. 0.0635
10. A church choir is composed of 5 tenors, 4 altos, 3 sopranos with no bass
b. 0.3110 d. 0.0664
singers. If trios are to be formed from the group, each composing of one
23. A smartphone battery manufacturer knows that for large quantities, the
tenor, one alto and one soprano, find the number of unique trios that can
lifetime of the battery is normally distributed with an average lifetime of
be formed from the group.
500 days, and a standard deviation of 61 days. What percent of a huge
a. 12 c. 24
stock of batteries will have a lifetime greater than 561 days?
b. 60 d. 36
a. 18.67% c. 84.13%
11. A group of musicians is composed of 3 drummers, 4 trumpet players, and
b. 22.13% d. 15.87%
5 pianists. In how many ways can a trio be formed consisting of 1
24. The finishing time of tinners in a marathon is normally distributed with the
drummer, 1 trumpet player and 1 pianist?
mean of 72 minutes and standard deviation of 8 minutes. Find the
a. 12 c. 36
percentage of runners with the finishing time less than 80 minutes.
b. 60 d. 24
a. 0.8413 c. 0.7564
12. In a 10-pin bowling, how many ways in knocking down the pins will be
b. 0.7254 d. 0.7754
there if one ball throw is made?
25. A population has a mean of 84 and a standard deviation of 4. Find the
a. 10 c. 1023
probability that a certain sample is within 80 and 88.
b. 55 d. 1024
a. 0.6827 c. 0.7286
13. How many different 5 card hands can be dealt from a standard of 52
b. 0.6287 d. 0.7826
cards?
26. A manufacturer estimates that 0.25% of his output of a component are
a. 380204032 c. 2598960
defective. The components are marked in packets of 200. Determine the
b. 120 d. 311875200
probability of a packet that contains only 2 defective components.
14. A classroom contains 71 students. Of these students, 10 are Chinese, 24
a. 0.0733 c. 0.0638
are Japanese and 37 are Filipinos. If 3 students are randomly asked to get
b. 0.0758 d. 0.0673
out of the classroom, one after the other, find the probability that all
27. The number of cars passing in a certain stretch of road follows a Poisson
three students are Japanese.
distribution. If the average number of cars passing per minute is 12, find
a. 0.0433 c. 0.0339
the probability that there are 6 or fewer cars in one minute?
b. 0.0403 d. 0.0354
a. 0.0458 c. 0.0319
15. A box contains 100 washers, 24 of which are brass, 36 are copper, and the
b. 0.0381 d. 0.0258
remainder 40 are steel. If one washer is taken at random, retained, and a
28. One crash happens in the program for every 500 programs running, on the
second washer similarly drawn, find the probability that both washers are
average. If a company has 2000 of the programs running, what is the
steel.
probability that exactly 6 programs crashed?
a. 0.1616 c. 0.1560
a. 0.1177 c. 0.1042
b. 0.1576 d. 0.160
b. 0.1133 d. 0.1240
16. A box contains 100 washers, 24 of which are brass, 36 are copper, and the
29. In how many ways can 3 Americans, 4 Frenchmen, 4 Danes and 2 Italians
remainder 40 are steel. If one washer is taken at random, retained, and a
be seated in a row so that those of the same nationality sit together in a
second washer similarly drawn, find the probability that both the first one
circular chair?
is brass and the second copper.
a. 41472 c. 39745
a. 0.0848 c. 0.0864 b. 165888 d. 185327
b. 0.0840 d. 0.0873
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30. In how many ways a club with 12 members be partitioned into three 46. The exapansion plan of business firm requires the purchase of a parcel of
committees containing 5,4 and 3 members respectively? land on which to build a structure, which they will need 5 year hence. The
a. 32650 c. 12580 currest cost are: land, P1,000,000; Building, P3,500,000. Since these cost
b. 28780 d. 27720 are not needed immediately, the firms plans to defer the purchase of the
31. A woman has 11 close friends. In how many ways she can invite five of land and the construction of the building until they are needed. If the
them if two of them are not on speaking terms and will not attend value of the land and the cost of the building are expected to appreciate
together? at the rates of 20% and 8% per annum, respectively, what will be the total
a. 126 c. 252 cost of the land and structure 5 years hence?
b. 378 d. 326 a. P7,725,498.12 c. P7,517,423.12
32. A class contain 10 men and 20 women of which half the men and half the b. P7,630,968.27 d. P7,817,423.12
women have brown eyes. Find the probability that a person is chosen at 47. If P1000 becomes P1811.36 after 5 years when invested at an unknown
random is a man or has brown eyes. rate of interest compounded bimonthly, determine the unknown nominal
a. 2/3 c. 1/2 rate and the corresponding effective rate.
b. 5/6 d. 1/6 a. 11.39%; 11.94% c. 12%; 12.62%
33. We are given three boxes as follows: b. 12.62%; 12% d. 11.94%; 11.39%
Box I have 10 light bulbs of which 4 are defective. 48. Find the nominal rate compounded monthly which is equivalent to 12%
Box II has 6 light bulbs of which 1 is defective. compounded quarterly. What is the corresponding effective rate?
Box III has 8 light bulbs of which 3 are defective. a. 11.88%; 12.55% c. 11.55%; 12.18%
We select a box at random and then draw a bulb at random. What is the b. 12.55%; 11.88% d. 12.18%; 11.55%
probability that the bulb is defective? 49. An advertisement of an investment firm states that if you invest P500 in
a. 113/120 c. 3/5 thier firm today you will get P1,000 at the end of 4.5 years. What is the
b. 113/360 d. 1/3 effective rate of interest is compounded (a) quarterly? (b) monthly?.
34. Three machines A, B and C produce respectively 50%, 30% and 20% of the a. 16.65%; 15.50% c. 16.65%; 16.65%
total number of items of a factory. The percentages of defective output of b. 15.70%; 15.50% d. 15.50%; 16.65%
these machines are 3%, 4% and 5%. If an item is selected at random, find 50. P200,000 was placed in a time deposit at x% compounded quarterly was
the probability that the item is defective. free of taxes. After exactly 5 years the total interest earned was P120000.
a. 0.12 c. 0.15 What is the value of “x”.
b. 0.10 d. 0.037 a. 8.75% c. 9.51%
35. A class has 12 boys and 4 girls. If three students are selected at random b. 6.32% d. 10.25%
from the class, what is the probability that they are all boys? 51. What is the difference between the sums of an annuity due and an
a. 11/28 c. 15/16 ordinary annuity for the following data?
b. 3/4 d. 12/18 Periodic payment=P150,000
36. In a family of 4 children, what is the probability that there will be exactly Terms = 20 years
two boys? Payment intervals = 1 year
a. 3/4 c. 3/8 Interest rate = 12% compounded annually.
b. 1/4 d. 1/2 a. 1296943.96 c. 1294693.49
37. Harvey the waiter, drops on the average 2.50 dishes per hour. Determine b. 1296439.96 d. 1293469.49
the probability that Harvey drops 4 dishes. 52. It costs P50,000 at the end of each year to maintain a section of Kennon
a. 1/10 c. 0.134 road in Baguio City. If money is worth 10%. How much would it pay to
b. 3/7 d. 0.190 spend immediately to reduce the annual cost to P10,000?
38. Consider a production process of making ball bearings where the a. 40000 c. 4000000
probability of a defective bearing is 0.01. What is the probability of having b. 400000 d. 40000000
15 defective bearings out of 850? 53. The capitalized cost of a piece of equipment was found to be P142000.
a. 0.0136 c. 17/300 The rate of interest used in the computations was 12%, with a salvage
b. 0.15 d. 3/17000 value of P10,000 at the end of a service life of 8 years. Assuming that the
39. Given a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 for a set of cost of perpetual replacement remains constant, determine the original
measurements that is normally distributed, find the probability that a cost of the equipment.
randomly selected observation is between 50 and 55. a. 86887 c. 88678
a. 0.6915 c. 0.3085 b. 86878 d. 88687
b. 0.1915 d. 0.3045 54. Engr. Spirit Breaker is planning to buy a commercial lot in La Trinidad for
40. A dart is thrown at a target of radius 10. The bull’s-eye has radius 2. If you P150,000 cash. He wants a 10% after-tax rate of return over and above
hit the target at random, what is the chance of hitting the bull’s-eye? the 6% inflation rate. If the capital gains tax is 14% of his profit upon
a. 0.50 c. 0.25 selling the lot, at what price must he sell the lot at the end of 5 years?
b. 0.20 d. 0.04 a. 636784 c. 414874
41. Determine the ordinary simple interest on P10,000 for 9 months and 10 b. 642540 d. 351493
days if the rate of interest is 12%. 55. A building has a salvage value of P1M after 50 years. Annual depreciation
a. P928.33 c. P933.33 is P2M. Using straight line method of depreciation, how many years after
b. P920.55 d. P948.55 should you sell the building for P30M?
42. Determine the exact simple interest on P5000 for the time period from
a. 40.25 c. 32.25
January 15 to June 20, 1993, if the rate of simple interest is 14%. b. 35.5 d. 37.75
a. P299.18 c. P298.36 56. A Fuji Xerox Machine was purchased 5 years ago at a cost of P120000. The
b. P303.33 d. P402.54 estimated salvage value at the end of 10 years is P10,000. If it is sold now
43. A man borrows P6400 from loan association. In repaying this debt he has
for P30,000, determine the sunk cost using straight line method in
to pay P400 at the end of every 3 months on the principal and a simple
computing the depreciation.
interest of 16% on the prinicipal outstanding at that time. Determine the
a. 71111 c. 35000
total amount he has paid after paying all his debt. b. 65000 d. 41111
a. P9825 c. P9645 57. A product by Titay’s Rosquillos has a current selling price of P325. It is
b. P8576 d. P8433 expected to decline at the rate of 10% per annum because of obsolescene.
44. If the sum of P12,000 is deposited in an account earning interest at the
When will the price be worth only P139.90. If it will depreciate by
rate of 9% compounded quarterly, what will it become at the end of 8
declining balance method?
years?
a. 6.5 yrs c. 8 yrs
a. P23,847.11 c. P24,457.24 b. 7.0 yrs d. 7.5 yrs
b. P23,910.75 d. P25,687.33 58. A machine costs P100,000 with a salvage value of P20,000 at the end of its
45. A man possesses a promissory note, due 3 years hence, whose maturity
life of 8 years. Which of the following gives the depreciation at the 6th
value is P6700.48. If the rate of interest is 10% compounded semi-
year using Sinking Fund Method if money is worth 6% annually?
annually, what is the value of this note now?
a. 8083 c. 8075
a. P5,034.17 c. P5,000 b. 8080 d. 8094
b. P5,125.18 d. P4950
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59. An equipment used by Konami is worth P5000 and has an anticipated

slavage value of P500 at the end of its 5 year depreciable life. Compute
the depreciation of the equipment on the 3rd year using MACRS method.
a. 1600 c. 1500
b. 960 d. 1130
60. The cost of equipment is P500,000 and the cost of labor installation, taxes
and miscellaneous expenses is P30,000. If the salvage value is 10% of the
cost of equipment at the end of its life of 5 years, compute the book value
at the end of 3rd year using MACRS (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery
System) method.
a. 153640 c. 142460
b. 122640 d. 152640