Question #1

In how many ways can a

committee of 7 be chosen from 5
teachers and 5 students if:

a.all are equally eligible

b.the committee must include 4

students and 3 teachers
Answer

a.10C7 = 120

b.5C4 x 5C3
= 50
Question #2

A student council has 8 seniors

and 7 juniors as members. In
how many ways can a 3-
member council committee be
formed if 2 of the members are
to be juniors?
Answer

168
Question #3

Six points lie on a circle. How

many inscribed triangles can be
constructed having any three of
these points as vertices?
Answer

20
Question #4
Two cards are drawn from a 52-card
bridge deck. Find the probability of
each event:

a.both are black

b.both are aces

c.either both are black or both are aces

Answer

a.25/102

b.1/221

c.26C2 + 4C2 – 2C2 /

52C2 = 55/221
Question #5
A bag contains two red, four yellow and
six blue marbles. Two marbles are
drawn at random. Find the probability of
each event:

a. both are red

b. both are yellow
c. neither is blue
d. one is red and one is yellow
Answer

a. 1/66
b. 1/11
c. 5/22
d. 4/33
Question #6

Ten points are on a plane, with

no three collinear. How many
triangles have these points as
vertices?
Answer

120
Question #7
A person bowls games of 182, 127,
161 and 155.

a. which measure of central

tendency is usually used to
describe bowling scores?

b. what is the measure for this

data?
Answer

a.mean

b.156.6
Question #8

a.Why is median income often

considered as a better indicator of
the wealth of the community than
mean income?

b.Why is the mode income not used

at all?
Answer

a.Few extreme values can

affect the mean but not the
median.

b.The most common income

will not reflect the wealth
of the community
Question #9

The larger the standard

equation of a data set, the
______ the numbers in the set
are.
Answer

more spread
out
Question #10

If a fair coin is tossed 10

times, what is the probability
of getting exactly 5 heads?
Answer

252/1024
Question #11

ACT scores range from 1 to 35

with a mean near 19 and a
standard deviation near 6. what
percent of students have an ACT
score above 25?
Answer

15.9%
Question #12

True or false. The probability

of getting exactly 25 heads in
50 tosses of a fair coin is less
than 1/10.
Answer

False
Question #13

A pizza restaurant menu

contains 15 possible ingredients for
pizza. You order three of them,
how many such combinations are
possible?
Answer

455
Question #14

90, 68, 75,80, 90,68, 99, 97… Find

the:

a.Mean

b. Median

c. mode
Answer

a. 82. 125
b. 83.5
c.90 or 68
Question #15

Assume a student takes a True-

False test with 10 questions and
the student guesses on each
question. Find the probability of
getting:

a.exactly 7 items are correct

b.7 or more items are correct

Answer

a.120/1024
b.170/1024