STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

1. The following are the test scores of 12 7. Set A contains 17 elements, set B
reviewees, which are arranged in contains 20 elements and 6 elements
increasing orders: 53, 58, 68,73, 75, 76, are common to sets A and B. How many
79, 80, 85, 88, 91, 99 elements are in A ᴜ B?
Find the value of the 62nd percentile.
a. 14 c. 25
a. 82.5 c. 69.5 b. 22 d. 31
b. 79.5 d. 89.5 8. Sixty people were contacted and
2. Find the percentile rank for the score of responded to a movie survey. The
85. following information was obtained:
a. 6 people liked comedies, dramas,
a. 73.4 % c. 66.6% and science fiction
b. 69.6 % d. 70.4% b. 13 people liked comedies and
3. The following are the ages of nine dramas
employees of Ayala Corporation: 24, 28, c. 10 people liked comedies and
33, 37, 39, 47, 51, 99 science fiction
d. 11 people liked dramas and science
a. 35 c. 49 fiction
b. 42 d. 45 e. 26 people liked comedies
4. The data shown below was collected f. 21 people liked dramas
regarding the class size of the doctoral g. 25 people liked science fiction
courses offered at UP-D.
How many of these surveyed liked none
CLASS SIZE FREQUENCY
of these categories?
14 2
10 3 a. 16 c. 18
8 1 b. 12 d. 15
Compute the standard deviation of 9. If you are given the word PARALLEL,
these data. compute the number of different 8-
letter arrangements can be formed.
a. 2.24 c. 1.42
b. 3.69 d. 4.87 a. 2480 c. 3360
5. A faculty of NU gives the following b. 1890 d. 1185
scores to his students in statistics. 10. You are given the word “ABSOLUTE”.
Freq. 1 3 6 11 13 10 Calculate how many three letter
Score 35 45 55 65 75 85 arrangements can be formed out of the
Determine the value of the mode. letters in that word if each letter is used
a. 10 c. 6 only once.
b. 1 d. 13
6. All the elements of A= {1,3,5,7}, set B= a. 336 c. 540
{1,3,5,7,9,11}. What is the subset of set b. 890 d. 780
B? 11. A sandwich is made by putting cheese
and ham between two pieces of bread.
a. {1,3,9,11} c. {5,7,9,11} You are given five types of cheese, two
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bread. How many different sandwiches a. 1/3 c. 1/2

can you make? b. 2/3 d. 1/4
17. Using the basic concepts of
a. 25 c. 38 algebra/probabilities, determine the
b. 22 d. 30 probability of:
12. Fifteen boxes can each hold one object. an odd number appears in the toss of a
In how many ways can 10 identical fair dice.
objects be placed in the boxes?
a. 1/3 c. 1/2
a. 3323 c. 3003 b. 2/3 d. 1/4
b. 3378 d. 3976 18. The probability of event x happening is
13. Determine the probability that 1 or 3/5. The probability of another event y
more heads appear in the toss of 4 fair is 2/3. Find the probability that both
coins. events x and y will happen.

a. 3/4 c. 2/5 a. 1/5 c. 3/5

b. 4/5 d. 1/4
14. A dart target consists of three
concentric circles with different radii 1,
3, and 5 units. If a dart thrower always
hits the area of a 5 unit radius but hit
the area randomly, what is the
probability that a dart hits the area of
between the 1 unit radius circle and the
3 unit radius circle?
a. 12/25 c. 15/25
b. 10/25 d. 8/25
15. The probability that a randomly
selected student from a college and is a
senior is 0.30, and the joint probability
that the student is a computer science
major and a senior is 0.40. Find the
conditional probability that a student at
random is a computer science major
given that he or she is a senior.
a. 0.111 c. 0.133
b. 0.567 d. 0.599
16. A jar contains 2 red marbles, 3 blue
marbles, and 1 green marble. Find the
probability of randomly drawing the
given type of marble.
b. 2/5 d. 4/5
19. A bag of cookies contain 6 oatmeal
cookies, 5 pecan cookies and 1 peanut
butter cookies. Kathy selects 2 cookies
at random. What is the probability that
she selected 2 oatmeal cookies?
a. 6/13 c. 7/22
b. 5/13 d. 5/22
20. The probability that the schedule flight
of PAL departs on time is 0.82 and the
probability that it will arrive on time is
0.81 and the probability that it departs
and arrives on time is 0.76. Find the
probability that a plane arrives on time
given that it departed on time.
a. 1.2 c. 0.927
b. 1.8 d. 0.76
21. Three kids go to a restaurant and order
a sandwich. The menu has 10 types of
sandwiches and each one is equally
likely to order any type. What is the
probability that each one orders a
different type?
a. 0.72 c. 0.88
b. 0.76 d. 0.98

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22. The probability of obtaining a 3 27. The national mean on an exam was 48
upwards when rolling a fair dice is 1/6. and the standard deviation was 12.
Compute the expectation of getting a 3 Approximately what percentage of
upwards on four throws of a dice. those taking this test has scores
between 36 and 60?
a. 1/3 c. 1/4
b. 2/3 d. 3/4 a. 68.2% c. 99.7%
23. At the bank of BPI, past data show that b. 95.4% d. 100%
7% of all credit card holders default at 28. The number of people seeing a movie
some time in their lives. On one recent on a weeknight was normally
day, this bank issued 12 credit cards to distributed with a mean of 224 and a
new customers. Find the probability standard deviation of 17. If you
that of those 12 customers eventually, randomly choose 4 weeknights, what is
exactly 3 will default. the probability that the attendance is
below 207 for all 4 nights?
a. 0.0393 c. 0.4186
b. 0.3781 d. 0.5476 a. 0.00077 c. 0.00055
24. Rene Mercado, the chairman of the b. 0.00066 d. 0.00088
Metro Cebu Water District, reported 29. LED lamps are packages in boxes of 200.
that 64% of the Cebuanos think that the If the production line is known to
water supply is safe to drink. A certain produce 1.5% defective lamps on the
municipality in Cebu has a population of average, determine the probability that
625. Compute the mean value of a box chosen at random will contain no
Cebuanos thinking that the water defective LED lamps.
supply is safe to drink.
a. 0.0456 c. 0.0436
a. 200 c. 400 b. 0.0498 d. 0.0479
b. 300 d. 500 30. Probability that contains 2 defective
25. Compute the standard deviation in lamps.
problem 24.
a. 0.234 c. 0.224
a. 12 c. 10 b. 0.253 d. 0.264
b. 14 d. 16
26. The mean score of Mathematics,
Surveying, and Transportation
Engineering in a Civil Engineering Board
Exam was 60 and the standard
deviation was 15. If your score was
within 2 standard deviations of the
mean, what is the lowest score you
would have received?

a. 25 c. 45
b. 15 d. 30

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