COMBINATORICS & PROBABILITY (PROBLEM SOLVING)

D7. A certain club has 10 members, including Harry. One of the 10 members is to be
chosen at random to be the president, one of the remaining 9 members is to be chosen at
random to be the secretary, and one of the remaining 8 members is to be chosen at
random to be the treasurer. What is the possibility that Harry will be either the member
chosen to be the secretary or the member chosen to be the treasurer?
1
(A) 720
1
(B) 80
1
(C) 10
1
(D) 9
1
(E) 5

10. Raffle tickets numbered consecutively from 101 through 350 are placed in a box. What
is the probability that a ticket selected at random will have a number with a hundreds digit
of 2?
2
(A) 5
2
(B) 7
33
(C) 83
99
(D) 250
100
(E)
249

64. Two integers will be randomly selected from the sets above, one integer form set A
and one integer from set B. What is the probability that the sum of the two integers will
equal 9?

𝐴 = {2, 3, 4, 5}

𝐵 = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8}

(A) 0.15
(B) 0.20
(C) 0.25
(D) 0.30
(E) 0.33
121. There are 8 teams in a certain league and each team play each of the other teams
exactly once. If each game is played by 2 teams, what is the total number of games
played?

(A) 15
(B) 16
(C) 28
(D) 56
(E) 64
135. The diagram above shows the various paths, along which a mouse can travel from
point 𝑋, where it is released, to point 𝑌, where it is rewarded with a food pellet. How many
different paths form 𝑋 to 𝑌 can the mouse take if it goes directly from 𝑋 to 𝑌 without
retracting any point along a path?

(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 12
(D) 14
(E) 17

1
173. The probability is 2 that a certain coin will turn up heads on any given toss. If the coin
is to be tossed three times, what is the probability that on at least one of the tosses the
coin will turn up tails?
1
(A) 8
1
(B) 2
3
(C) 4
7
(D) 8
15
(E) 16

195. Pat will walk from intersection X to intersection Y along a route that is confined to the
square grid of four streets and three avenues shown in the map above. How many routes
from X to Y can Pat take that have minimum possible length?

(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 10
(D) 14
(E) 16
217. A certain junior class has 1,000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students.
Among these students, there are 60 sibling pairs, each consisting of 1 junior and 1 senior.
If 1 student is to be selected at random from each class, what is the probability that the 2
students selected will be a sibling pair?
3
(A) 40,000
1
(B) 3,600
9
(C) 2,000
1
(D)
60
1
(E) 15

231. Xavier, Yvonne, and Zelda each try independently to solve a proble. If their individual
1 1 5
probabilities for success are , , and , respectively, what is the probability that Xavier and
4 2 8
Yvonne, but not Zelda, will solve the problem?
11
(A)
8
7
(B) 8
9
(C) 64
5
(D)
64
3
(E) 64

COMBINATORICS & PROBABILITY (QUANTITATIVE REVIEW)

80. If X is to be chosen at random from the set {1, 2, 3, 4} and Y is to be chosen at random
from the set {5, 6, 7}, what is the probability that XY will be even?
1
(A)
6
1
(B) 3
1
(C) 2
2
(D) 4
5
(E) 6

132. A company that ships boxes to a total of 1 distribution centers uses color coding to
identify each center. If either a single color or a pair of two different colors is chosen to
represent each center and if each center is uniquely represented by that choice of one or
two colors, what is the minimum number of colors needed for the coding? (Assume that
the order of the colors in a pair does not matter.)

(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6
 (D) 12
(E) 24
151. A box contains 100 balls, numbered from 1 to 100. If three balls are selected at
random and with replacement from the box, what is the probability that the sum of three
numbers on the balls selected from the box will be odd?
1
(A) 4
3
(B) 8
1
(C) 2
5
(D) 8
3
(E) 4
COMBINATORICS & PROBABILITY (DATA SUFFICIENCY)
10. In the certain class, one student is to be selected at random to read. What is the
probability that a boy will read?

(1) Two-Thirds of the students on the class are boys.

(2) Ten of the students in the class are girls.

82. A box contains only red chips, white chips and blue chips. If a chip is randomly
selected from the box, what is the possibility that the chip will be either white or blue.
1
(1) The probability that the chip will be blue is 5.
1
(2) The probability that the chip will be red is 3.
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COMBINATORICS & PROBABILITY

PROBLEM SOLVING
Question Answer
D7. E
10. A
64. B
121. C
135. C
173. D
195. C
217. A
231. E
QUANTITATIVE RIEW
80. D
132. B
151. C
DATA SUFFICIENCY
10. A
82. B