REVIEW MATH 125 EXAM 2 (Chapters 4, 5, & 6)

You need to practice all the questions by showing the work where necessary

Q#1

An experiment is rolling two fair dice.

a. Find the probability of getting a sum of 3 or sum of 8

b. Find the probability of getting a sum of 8 or the first die is a 4.

Q#2

Q#3

i. You are going to a benefit dinner, and need to decide before the dinner what you want
for salad, main dish, and dessert. You have 2 different salads to choose from, 3 main
dishes, and 5 desserts. How many different meals are available?
 ii. You have a group of twelve people. You need to pick a president, treasurer, and
secretary from the twelve. How many different ways can you do this?

Q#4

Q#5
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Q#7

If you throw exactly two heads in three tosses of a coin you win $37. If not, you pay me $18.
Step 1. Find the expected value of the proposition. Round your answer to two decimal
places. Losses must be expressed as negative values.

Step 2. If you played this game 621 times how much would you expect to win or lose?
Round your answer to two decimal places. Losses must be entered as negative.
Q#8

Suppose a random variable, x, arises from a binomial experiment. If n = 10, and p = 0.70, find the
following probability greater or equal to seven using technology.

Q#10

A fair die will be rolled 12 times. What is the probability that 1, 2, or 3 is rolled exactly 5
times? Round your answer to four decimal places.

Q#11

i. How many ways can you arrange the letters in the word STATISTICS?

ii. You pick three cards from a deck without replacing a card before picking the next
card. What is the probability that all three cards are kings?

Q#12

Suppose you operate a diamond mine in South Africa. The daily production of diamonds is
approximately normally distributed with a mean of 7,500 tons of diamonds per day with a
standard deviation of 1,500 tons of diamonds per day.

a. What is the probability that the mine produces more than 9,200 tons of diamonds in a
day?
 b. What is the probability that the mine produces between 5,400 and 8,200 tons of diamonds
in a day?

Q#13
The probability that any one of the incandescent lights in Norman Hall is not working is
0.10. There are 8 lights in Norman Hall. Assume that the lights are independent.

a. What is the probability that all of the lights are working?

b. What is the probability that at least one of the lights is not working?

Q#14

Phlebotomists (those who draw blood for analysis) at the NW 12 Street blood plasma donation
center have found that 15% of their donors eat more than three cookies following their plasma
donation. On a given day, 13 donors give plasma. What is the probability that less than two of
the day's donors will eat more than three cookies after they donate blood plasma?

Q#15.
Which of the following is/are true about a normal distribution?
a) If the same area is shaded in the lower tail and in the upper tail, the probabilities of the lower
and upper tail are equal.
b) The mean is equal to the median
c) It is a continuous distribution
d) All of the above are true
Q#16.
There are 18 people. (a) How many ways can you assign them to 18 different jobs?

(b) How many ways can you assign them to 3 different jobs?

(c) How many committees of 3 can you create from the 18?

Q#17
A study of smoking and sex found the following:
Male Female
Smokes 150 130
Does Not Smoke 250 470

(a) Compute the following probabilities: Give your in a reduced fraction.

P(male)

P(female (and) smoker);

P(female or smoker);

P(male|smoker);

P(smoker/male).
(b) Prove that smoking and sex are not independent.

Q#18
The mileage of cars is normally distributed with a mean of 20 mpg and a standard
deviation of 4 mpg. (mpg is miles per gallon). Calculate the following:
(a) The percentage of cars under 15 mpg:

(b) The percentage of cars above 22 mpg:

(c) The probability that a car will have a mileage between 22 and 28 mpg:

(d) Compute the mpg of the top 10% of cars (i.e., the 90th percentile)

(e) Compute the 9th percentile

 Q#19

An English teacher needs to pick 13 books to put on his reading list for the next school
year, and he needs to plan the order in which they should be read. He has narrowed
down his choices to 6 novels, 6 plays, 7 poetry books, and 5 nonfiction books.

i. If he wants to include no more than 4 nonfiction books, how many different

reading schedules are possible? Express your answer in scientific notation
rounding to the hundredths place.

ii. If he wants to include all 6 plays, how many different reading schedules are
possible? Express your answer in scientific notation rounding to the hundredths
place.

Q#20

A philosophy professor assigns letter grades on a test according to the following scheme.
A: Top 10% of scores
B: Scores below the top 10% and above the bottom 58%
C: Scores below the top 42% and above the bottom 20%
D: Scores below the top 80% and above the bottom 9%
F: Bottom 9% of scores
Scores on the test are normally distributed with a mean of 67.3 and a standard deviation
of 7.3. Find the numerical limits for a D grade. Round your answers to the nearest
whole number, if necessary.
 Q#21
i. Find the value of 𝑧 such that 0.516 of the area lies between −𝑧 and 𝑧. Round
your answer to two decimal places.
ii. Find the value of 𝑧 such that 0.06 of the area lies to the right of 𝑧. Round your
answer to two decimal places.

Q#22
A fair die will be rolled 11 times. What is the probability that an even number is rolled
less than 9 but more than 5 times? Round your answer to four decimal places.

Q#23
ACT scores have a mean of 21.2 and 16 percent of the scores are above 26. The scores
have a distribution that is approximately normal. Find the standard deviation. Round
your answer to the nearest tenth, if necessary.

Q#24
Construct the discrete probability distribution for the random variable described. Express
the probabilities as simplified fractions.
The number of tails in 4 tosses of a coin.
Q#25

A box contains 3 red balls, 2 yellow balls, and 5 green balls. If two of the balls are randomly
selected from the box (without replacement), find the following probabilities.
(a) The probability that the first ball is yellow, and the second ball is green.

(b) The probability that the two balls are green.

Q#26.
According to an article in the American Heart Association’s publication Circulation, 24%
of patients who had been hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction did not fill their
cardiac medication by the seventh day of being discharged (Ho, Bryson & Rumsfeld,
2009). Suppose there are twelve people who have been hospitalized for an acute
myocardial infarction.
a.) At most two did not fill their cardiac medication.

b.) At least three did not fill their cardiac medication.