PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG VALENZUELA
Tongco St., Maysan Valenzuela City
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Civil Engineering Department
ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS MIDTERM EXAM
I. EASY (2PTS EACH)
1. Given the sample space: one, two ... nine, ten. What
is the probability that if I choose randomly, the word
I'll pick starts or ends with the letter "e".
2. In how many ways a committee consisting of 5 men
and 3 women, can be chosen from 9 men and 12
women?
3. Mark has 5 pants and 7 shirts in his closet. He
wants to wear a different pant/shirt combination each
day without buying new clothes for as long as he can.
How many weeks can he do this for?
4. Twenty students enter a contest at school. The
contest offers a first, second, and third prize. How
many different ways of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place
winners can there be?
5. Two players, Sangeet and Rashmi, play a tennis
match. The probability of Sangeet winning the match
is 0.62. What is the probability that Rashmi will win
the match?
6. Find the probability that a person flipping a coin
gets 1st head on the 4th flip.
7. If the probability that a basketball player sinks the
basket at a 3-point range is 2/5, determine the
probability of shooting 5 out of the 8 attempts.
For items 8-10
In a hamster breeder's experience, the number X of
live pups in a litter of a female not over twelve
months in age who has not borne a litter in the past
six weeks has the probability distribution. Find the
value of A, B, & C if the expected value of this
distribution is 5.8. Another thing is that F(6) = 0.63.
8. Find the value of A.
9. Find the value of B.
10. Find the value of C.
II. VERY EASY (3PTS EACH)
1. What is the probability that in a room of 3 people,
all of them have the same birthday. Hint: Consider all
of them was born in a year without a leap year.
2. Designed length of a pre-fabricated girder is 30.00
meters. Upon surveying the girders at site, it is found
out that the lengths represent a normal distribution. If
the average length at site is 30.13 meters and the
acceptable length must be within +/- 200 mm of the
design. Find the probability that a random girder will
fail the inspection by falling short of the designed
length or pass the inspection by having a length
longer than the average. Standard deviation is σ = 100
mm.
3. The life span of a calculator manufactured by
Lenovo Corporation has a normal distribution with a
mean of 54 months and a standard deviation of 8
months. The company guarantees that any calculator
that starts malfunctioning within 36 months of the
purchase will be replaced by a new one. About what
percentage of such calculators made by this company
are expected to be replaced?
4. A stationery store has decided to accept a large
shipment of ball-point pens if an inspection of 20
randomly selected pens yields no more than two
defective pens. Find the probability that this shipment
is accepted if 5% of the total shipment is defective.
5. The local weather forecaster says “no rain” and his
record is 2/3 accuracy of prediction. But the Federal
Meteorological Service predicts rain and their record
is 3/4. With no other data available, what is the
chance of rain?
BONUS: Assume that a single depth charge has a
probability of 1/2 of sinking a submarine, 1/4 of
damage and 1/4 of missing. Assume also that two
damaging explosions sink the sub. What is the
probability that 4 depth charges will sink the sub?
3PTS