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Math2052 Work Sheet
Chapter Two
1. A class has 10 male students and 8 female students. Find the number of ways the
class can elect:
a. a class representative c. a class president and vice president.
b. 2 class representatives, one male and one female
2. Suppose a code consists of five characters, two letters followed by three digits. Find
the number of:
a. Codes b. codes with distinct letter c. codes with the same
letters.
3. Find the number of ways 5 large books, 4 medium-size books, and 3 small books can
be placed on a shelf where:
a. there are no restrictions b. all books of the same size are
together.
4. Suppose repetitions are not permitted.
a. Find the number of three-digit numbers that can be formed from the six digits 2,
3, 5, 6, 7, and 9
b. How many of them are less than 400?
c. How many of them are even?
5. Find n if: a. 𝑃 (𝑛, 4) = 42𝑃 (𝑛, 2) b. 2𝑃 (𝑛, 2) + 50 = 𝑃 (2𝑛, 2).
6. Find the number of permutations that can be formed from all the letters of each word:
a. QUEUE c. COMMITTEE e. FOOTBALL
b. PROPOSITION d. BASEBALL. f. ENGINEERING
7. A box contains 12 lightbulbs. Find the number n of ordered samples of size 3:
a. with replacement b. without replacement.
8. A class contains 9 men and 3 women. Find the number of ways a teacher can select a
committee of 4 from the class where there is:
a. no restrictions; c. 2 men and 2 women;
b. exactly one woman; d. at least one man.
9. A woman has 11 close friends. Find the number of ways she can invite 5 of them to
dinner where:
a. There are no restrictions.
b. Two of the friends are married to each other and will not attend separately.
c. Two of the friends are not speaking with each other and will not attend
together.
10. Suppose 32 students are in an art class A and 24 students are in a biology class B,
and suppose 10 students are in both classes. Find the number of students who are:
a. in class A or in class B b. only in class A c. only in class B.
11. Consider all integers from 1 up to and including 300. Find the number of them that
are divisible by:
a. at least one of 3, 5, 7 c. by 5, but by neither 3 nor 7
b. 3 and 5 but not by 7 d. by none of the numbers 3, 5, 7.
12. Find the number m of elements in the union of sets A, B, C, D where: A, B, C, D
have 50, 60, 70, 80 elements, respectively. Each pair of sets has 20 elements in
 common. Each three of the sets has 10 elements in common. All four of the sets have
5 elements in common.
13. Find the minimum number of students needed to guarantee that 4 of them were
born:
a. on the same day of the week; b. in the same month.
14. Find the minimum number of students needed to guarantee that 3 of them:
a. have last names which begin with the same first letter;
b. were born on the same day of a month (with 31 days).
Chapter Three
15. A pair of dice is thrown. Let X denote the minimum of the two numbers which occur.
Find the distributions and expectation of X.
16. A fair coin is tossed four times. Let X denote the longest string of heads. Find the
distribution and expectation of X.
17. A coin is weighted so that P (H) = 3/ 4 and P (T) = 1/ 4. The coin is tossed three
times. Let X denote the number of heads that appear.
a. Find the distribution f of X. b. Find the expectation E(X).
18. A pair of fair dice is tossed. If the numbers appearing are different, find the
probability that:
a. the sum is even b. the sum exceeds nine.
19. Let A and B be events with P (A) = 1/3, P (B) = 1 /4, and P (A ∪ B) = 1 /2. Find
a. P (A|B) and P (B|A). b. Are A and B independent?
20. Let A and B be independent events with P (A) = 0.3 and P (B) = 0.4. Find P (A ∩ B),
P (A ∪ B) , P (A|B) and P (B|A).
21. In a country club, 60% of the women play tennis, 40% play golf, and 20% play both
tennis and golf. A woman is chosen at random.
a. Find the probability that she plays neither tennis nor golf.
b. If she plays tennis, find the probability that she plays golf.
c. If she plays golf, find the probability that she plays tennis.
22. Box A contains six red marbles and two blue marbles, and box B contains two red
and four blue. A marble is drawn at random from each box.
a. Find the probability p that both marbles are red.
b. Find the probability p that one is red and one is blue.
23. Three fair coins are tossed. Consider the events: A = {all heads or all tails}, B = {at
least two heads}, C = {at most two heads}. Of the pairs (A, B), (A, C), and (B, C), which
are independent? Which are dependent?
24. The probability that a woman hits a target is 𝑝 = 1/3. She fires 50 times. Find the
expected number µ of times she will hit the target and the standard deviation
25. Team A has probability 𝑝 = 0.8 of winning each time it plays. Let X denote the
number of times A will win in 𝑛 = 100 games. Find the mean µ, variance σ2, and
standard deviation σ of X.
26. An unprepared student takes a five-question true–false quiz and guesses every
answer. Find the probability that the student will pass the quiz if at least four correct
answers is the passing grade.