Practice Problems

1. From the given distribution shown:

Find the expectation.

A. 7 C. 4
B. 2 D. 6
2. A certain type of missile hits its target with a probability of 0.30.
How many missiles should be fired so that there is at least 50%
probability of hitting a target.
A. 2 C. 3
B. 4 D. 5
3. According to statistics, 30% of the smokers want to quit smoking.
In a random of 12 smokers, determine the probability that the
number who wants to quit smoking is exactly 6.
A. 0.1771% C. 0.0826%
B. 0.0792% D. 0.15%

4. A triangle has sides 30 cm, 36 cm and 18 cm. Determine the

radius of the circle that is escribed in 36-cm side.
A. 37.82 C. 44.90
B. 11.64 D. 26.57
5. A 7.5-cm radius circle circumscribes a triangle whose area is
44.959 cm2. Determine the perimeter of the triangle if its
longest is 15 cm long.
A. 10.2 cm C. 8.2 cm
B. 38.13 cm D. 35.12 cm

6. A sight is taken an engineers level at rod held 100 m away and in

initial reading of 1.83 m is observed. The bubble is then level
through six spaces on the level tube and the rod reading is 1.91
m. What is the sensitivity of the bubble tube if seconds of arc?
A. 28 C. 27.5
B. 31 D. 34.5
7. A sight is taken an engineers level at rod held 100 m away and in
initial reading of 1.83 m is observed. The bubble is then level
through five spaces on the level tube and the rod reading is 1.90
m. What is the sensitivity of the bubble tube if seconds of arc?
A. 78.6 C. 24.1
B. 144 D. 28.8

8. A manufacturer estimates that 0.25% of his output of a

component are defective. The components are marketed in
packets of 200. Determine the probability of a packet containing
exactly two defective components.
A. 8.52% C. 7.58%
B. 4.92% D. 9.75%
9. The mean of a population is 84 and its standard deviation is 4.
Using normal probability distribution, determine the probability
that a certain sample is within 80 and 88.
A. 0.74 C. 0.68
B. 0.42 D. 0.56

10. The value of (1 + i)6 is equal to:

A. -8i C. 4i
B. -12i D. 6i
11. A flagpole and a tower stand 36 meters apart on a horizontal
plane. A person standing successively at their bases observes that
the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is twice that of the
pole, but at a point midway between their bases the angles of
elevation are complementary. Find the height of the tower?
A. 38 m C. 45 m
B. 32 m D. 27 m
12. A point is sighted from a transit and found to have a stadia
intercept of 0.6 m. The distance of the sighted stadia rod from the
transit is 61.2 m. If f + c is 0.3 m, determine the stadia constant.
A. 101.5 B. 100.7
C. 99.8 D. 99.2
13. A 40 m high tower stands vertically on a hillside (slopping ground)
which makes an angle of 18° with the horizontal. A tree also stands
vertically up the hill from the tower. An observer on the tower finds
the angle of depression of the top of the tree to be 26° and the
bottom of the tree to be 38°. Determine the height of the tree.
A. 12.58 m C. 10.56 m
B. 11.35 m D. 8.75 m
14. The angle of elevation of the top of the vertical tower from points
A and B are 25° and 50°, respectively. The points A and B are 300 m
apart and on the same horizontal plane with the foot of the tower.
The horizontal angle subtended by A and B at the foot of the tower
is 90°. Find the height of the tower.
A. 140.54 m C. 128.65 m
B. 112.55 m D. 130.27 m
15. The distance between two points is observed and tabulated with
corresponding weights. Determine the weight mean distance.

Trial Distance Weight

1 521.62 m 2
2 521.51 m 5
3 521.13 m 1
4 521.93 m 8

A. 521.71 m B. 521.55 m
C. 521.67 m D. 521.61 m