CAPITOL UNIVERSITY

College of Arts and Sciences

Math and Sciences Department

Math 24 Probability
PRELIM EXAMINATION

Name:__________________________________ Date:_______________________________
Permit Number:___________________________ Instructor:___________________________

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Students without official permit are not allowed to take the exam.
2. Only ball pen, calculator and test questionnaire on the top of the arm chair.
3. You are not allowed to use cell phone or gadget as your calculator.
4. Failure to follow any of the given instructions means POINT SYSTEM DEDUCTION.

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer from the box below:
a. Probability e. Events j. Subjective
b. Permutation f. Sample Space probability
c. Fundamental g. Elements k. Mutually exclusive
Principle of Counting h. Combination l. Relative frequency
d. Classical Probability i. Experiment occurrence
_______1. It is activity that generates a set of data.
_______2. The set of all possible outcomes in an experiment.
_______3. An outcome in a sample space
_______4. Also known as empirical method.
_______5. The probability that an event will happen.
_______6. The total number of orders or arrangement of objects where the order is not important.
_______7. The chance that something will happen.
_______8. Arrangement of objects with reference to order.
_______9. Two events are ____________ if the intersection is empty.
_______10. The making of probability assessment based on the belief of the person.

II. Solving: Show your solution neatly and completely.

1. A class contains 9 boys and 3 girls.
(a) In how many ways can a teacher choose a committee of 4?
(b) How many of them contain at least one girl?
(c) How many of them will contain exactly one girl?
2. Find the number of distinct permutations that can be found from the letters of the words below:
(a) ELEVEN
(b) PREPOSITION
3. Let a coin and a die be tossed; let the sample space S consist of the following twelve elements:
= {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6}
Let = { } = { }
=
Find: (), (), (), ( ), ( )
4. A pair of dice is tossed. Find the probability that the maximum of the two numbers is greater
than 4.
5. Use the binomial theorem to prove 24 = 16.
7 1 5
6. Let A and B be events with ( ) = 8 , ( ) = 4 and ( ) = 8.
Find: P(A), P(B) and P( )

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