EMA EMITS COLLEGE PHILIPPINES

(Formerly: Eastern Mindoro Institute of Technology & Sciences)

Del Pilar St.; Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro

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PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY (MATH2)

Name: Date:
Year Level/Section: Score
NOTES OF GUIDANCE
On a separate sheet of paper, show your solution on the items that needs a solution.
Always round your answers to the nearest hundredths. Box your final answer.

A. Discrete and Continuous Variable

Direction: Write D if the given statement is a discrete variable and C if it is a continuous
variable.
_______ 1. Travel time going to school
_______ 2. Number of marriages last year
_______ 3. Total goals scored by the women’s hockey team
_______ 4. Speed of a bicycle
_______ 5. Age of employees in a certain company
_______ 6. Number of subjects offered and enrolled in per semester
_______ 7. Length of time of a telephone call
_______ 8. Annual income of an individual
_______ 9. Yearly profit of a company
_______ 10. Number of employees in a company

B. Binomial Distribution
11. Five friends attended the volleyball varsity team tryouts. Each of them has P(success) = 60%
and P(failure) = 40 %. What is the probability that (a. none, b. two, d. three) of them will be
selected?

C. Probability Density Function of a Continuous Random Variable

12. The probability density function of a certain continuous random variable is given by
3 x+ 4
y= where 0 ≤ x ≤ 8.
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A. Find the area between x = 2 and x = 7;
B. Find the probability of getting 5 or lower.

D. Mean and Variance of Discrete Random Variable

13. Solve for the mean, variance and standard deviation of the given data below.

Sample Points (x) 11 15 22 33 45

P(X=x) 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.3

EECP: BSED – SCIENCE PROGRAM Instructor: Renthel R. Cueto