5) What is the probability of obtaining 45 or fewer heads in 100 tosses of a There are five main roads between the
tween the cities A and B, and four between B
coin?
0.18
How many different permentations can be made from the word "infinity"?
3,360 ways.
The probability for the ECE board examinees from a certain school to pass
the subject Mathematics is 3/7 and for the subject Communications is 5/7. If
none of the examinees fails both subject and there are 4 examinees who
pass both subjects, find the number of examinees from that school who took
the examinations.
28.
A man works in a company whose employees had an average income this
past year for 280,000 pesos with a standard deviation of P 30,000. How much
did the man earn this past year if her z score is -0.8?
256000.
In a game of Yahtzee, where 5 dice are tossed simultaneously, find the
probability of getting two pairs
25/108.
There are three candidates A,B and C for mayor of a certain town. If the odds
that A will win are 7:5 and those of B are 1:3, what is the probability that
candidate C will win?
0.17.
Find the mean of the score: 28,18,10,6,12,14,17,18,20,13,17,15.
15.67.
If a card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards, find the probability of getting a
Jack or a black card.
0.5385.
The probability of getting a credit in an examination is 1/3. If 3 students are
selected at random, what is the probability that at least one of them get a
credit?
19/27
The IQ of all sophomore students in Rizal High School are
population.
The inferential statistics is relevant because it:
is a tool for decision making.
5)The table on the left shows the joint probability distribution between two
random variables - X and Y; and the table on the right shows the joint
probability distribution between two random variables - A and B. Which of
the following statements are true?
o I. X and Y are independent random variables
o II. A and B are independent random variables
I only.
5) A weatherman records the high temperature in Norfolk, Va. for each of
the first 7 days of the year. The temperatures (in degrees fahrenheit) are 51,
49, 41, 53, 54, 68, 48. Over that time period, which of the following
statements is true?
II only.
On a vacation trip, a family bought 21.5 liters of gasoline at 39.9 cents per
liter, 18.7 liters at 42.9 cents per liter and 23.5 liters at 10.9 cents per liter.
Find the mean price paid liter.
30.08 cents/liters.
An article that does not conform to specifications in some respect can be
described as:
nonconforming.
In how many ways can 9 books be arranged on a self so that 5 of the books
are always together?
14400.
How much you will spend if you will bet all the combinations in a Lotto
lottery Draw?
52,457,860 pesos.
and C. In how many ways can a person drive from A to C and return, going
through B on both trips without driving on the same road twice?
240.
What is the approximate probability that no two people in a group of seven
have the same birthday?
0.94.
A point P is selected at random inside a circle. Find the probability that the
point P is closer to the center of the circle than to its circumference.
1/4.
How many different outcomes can occur when a coin is flipped 4 times?
16.
31::Find the root mean square of 16,19,22 and 27.
21.39.
An outcome in a sample space
element.
The scores of a student in six examinations were 70, 84, 81, 79, 88, 92. Find
the median.
82.5.
The inferential statistics is relevant because it:
is a tool for decision making.
The water content of soil from a borrow site is normally ditributed with a
mean of 14.2% and a standard deviation of 2.3%. What is the probability that
a sample taken from the site will have a water content above 16% or below
12%?
0.37.
Distribution that lacks symmetry with respect to a vertical axis.
skewed.
Which of the following statement is false
The mean is a measure of the position of a score in a collection of data.
What is the t-test (based on Student's t-distribution) useful for?
determining if the differences between samples means is significant.
What is the number of permutations of the letters in the word BANANA?
60.
Find the variance of 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 22.
14.6.
In a dice game, one fair dice is used. The player wins P20 if he rolls either 1 or
6. He loses P10 if he turns up any other face. What is the expected winning
for one roll of the dice?
P0.00.
Find the probability of throwing 11 each time in 3 tosses of two dice.
1.71 x 10-4.
In how many ways can 4 boys and 5 girls sit in a row if the boys and girls must
alternate?
2,880 ways.
Suppose X and Y are independent random variables. The variance of X is
equal to 16; and the variance of Y is equal to 9. Let Z = X - Y. What is the
standard deviation of Z?
5.
A basket contains 3 apples and 2 oranges. Another basket contains 2 apples
and 5 oranges. A boy selected a basket at random and picked a fruit and then
placed it on the other basket. Then another fruit is picked from the second
basket. Find the probability that both fruits he picked are of the same kind.
0.5363.
5) Twenty tickets are numbered 1 to 20 and one of them is drawn at random.
What is the probability that the number drawn is a multiple of 3 or 5?
0.45.
Find the value of n if nP6 = 3nP5.
8
In how many different ways can a true false cinsisting of 9 questions be
answered?
512 ways.
Three sections of a Statistic class containing 28,32 and 35 students average 68.02 kg.
83, 80 and 76, respectively on the same final examination. What is the Four friends took the ECE board exam, each with a probability 0.60 of passing
combined population mean for all 3 sections? the said exam. Find the probability that at least one of them will pass the
79.4. exam.
A survey of a random sample of people leaving an amusement park showed 0.9744.
an average expenditure of P 103 for the evening. The average expenditure Find the standard deviation of 8,7,12,4,9.
for the 20 girls in the sample was P 97 and for the boys it was 111. How many 2.61.
boys are there in the sample. How many different ways can you arrange the letters X, Y, and Z?
15. 6
The required probability that a two-stage rocket will perform successfully is A college plays 12 basketball games during a season. In how many ways can
0.97. The reliability for the first stage is 0.99. The reliabilities of the two the team end the season with 7 wins, 3 losses, and 2 ties?
stages are independent. What must be the reliability for the second stage? 7920 ways.
0.98. If the sum of the square of 5 numbers is 130 and their standard deviation is
What is the probability of picking an orange ball and a white ball out of a bag equal to the square root of 2.96, find their arithmetic mean.
containing seven orange ball, eight green balls, and two white balls? 4.8.
0.1 Find the harmonic mean of 3,3 and 6.
A car travels from A to B at 30 kph, from B to C at 40 kph and from C to A at 3.6.
50 kph. If A, B and C are equidistant from each other, determine the average Consider the boxplot below. Which of the following statements are true?
speed of the car for the entire trip by using the harmonic mean formula. The median is about 10..
38.3. Find the harmonic mean of 7, 5, 8, 6, 4, 10, 9, 11 and 13.
A normal distribution would show the following characteristics EXCEPT: 7.12.
the mode is between the mean and the median. Any function of the random variables constituting a random sample.
If a card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards, find the probability that it will be a statistics.
Jack or a black card? The stemplot below shows the number of hot dogs eaten by contestants in a
7/13. recent hot dog eating contest
Which of the following is a discrete random variable? I and II.
A semiconductor company will hire 7 men and 4 women. In how many ways
o I. The average height of a randomly selected group of boys can the company choose from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the
o II. The annual number of sweepstakes winners from New York City position?
540.
o III. The number of presidential elections in the 20th century
A batch of computer chips includes two that are defective and four that are
II only.
acceptable. If two of these chips are randomly selected without replacement,
For the probability density function shown, what is the probability of the
find the probability that both are defective.
random variable being less tha 1/3?
0.067.
0.22.
During the Gulf War, a US submarine disposed off 4 torpedoes each with a
In continuing the use of control charts, possible action on the process can be:
probability of 0.25 of hitting a hip? What is the probability of hitting an
action to remove assignable causes of variation that are brought to attention
enemy ship?
by out-of-control points.
0.68.
Given the eight number summary (at the right) for a collection of data, the
There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which there is a first and second prize.
IQR is
What is the probability of a man drawing a prize if he owns 5 tickets?
45.
0.2.
A card is drawn randomly from a deck of ordinary playing cards. You win $10
What is the approximate probability of exactly two people in a group of
if the card is a spade or an ace. What is the probability that you will win the
seven having the same birthday?
game?
0.057.
4/13.
The probability of getting a credit in an examination is 1/3. If three students
If 15 people won prizes in the state lottery (assuming that there are no ties),
are selected at random, what is the probability that at least one og the
how many ways can these 15 people win first, second, third, fourth and fifth
students got credit?
prizes?
19/27.
360360.
Find the standard deviation of 8,7,12,4,9.
The average salary for an employee at Acme Corporation is $30,000 per year. 2.61
This year, management awards the following bonuses to every employee. A sample consists of the values 10,18,34 and 22. Find average deviation
7.
o A Christmas bonus of $500. Find the sum of 1 + 13 + 2 + 23 + 3 + 33 + …….+ 20 + 203
o An incentive bonus equal to 10 percent of the employee's salary. 44310.
What is the mean bonus received by employees? The water content of soil from a borrow site is normally ditributed with a
mean of 14.2% and a standard deviation of 2.3%. What is the probability that
3500.
a sample taken from the site will have a water content above 16% or below
Bob is a high school basketball player. He is a 70% free throw shooter. That
12%?
means his probability of making a free throw is 0.70. What is the probability
0.37.
that Bob makes his first free throw on his fifth shot? 0.00567.
Out of a sample of 10,000 men, the probability that a man picked at random
The subset of all elements of a sample space that are not in an event.
weighs over 86 kg is 0.25. The probability that a man weighs less than 61 kg.
complement of an event.
Is 0.15. What is the probability that a man picked at random weighs between
Four groups of students consisting of 10,15,18 and 20 individuals reported
61 and 86 kg.
mean weights of 74,67,70 and 64 kg respectively. Find the mean weight of
0.60.
the students.
The probability of a certain event is 2/7 and the probability of another
independent of the first is 6/11. Find the probability that at least one event
will happen.
52/77.
The overall proportions of defective items in a continuous production
process is 0.12. What is the probability that two randomly chosen items will
both be nondefective?
0.77.
The probability distribution of a statistic
sampling distribution.
5) In a survey of randomly selected adults, 150 were ticketed for over
speeding and 140 others received illegal parking tickets. Of this group,
nobody received both a speeding ticket and a parking ticket. The men
received 100 of the speeding tickets and 90 of the parkinh tickets. If one of
these adults is randomly selected, find the probability of selecting a man or
someone ticketed for speeding.
0.8621.
In horse racing, a trifecta is a type of bet. To win a trifecta bet, you need to
specify the horses that finish in the top three spots in the exact order in
which they finish. If eight horses enter the race, how many different ways
can they finish in the top three spots?
336.
Find the harmonic mean of 3,3 and 6.
3.6.
What is the t-test (based on Student's t-distribution) useful for?
determining if the differences between samples means is significant.
A sample consists of the values 10,18,34 and 22. Find average deviation.
7.
A coin is weighted so that he head is three times as likely to appear as tails.
Find P(H) and P(T).
3/4, 1/4.
Find the variance of 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 22.
14.6.
It is a control chart for number of nonconformities
c chart.
A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability of getting 3 tails up?
1/8.
For a sample of 20 children in a certain school, the number of minutes they
spend per day watching TV are as follows:
45, 25, 30, 20, 50, 24, 48, 50, 60, 23, 25, 35, 18, 30, 35, 20, 25, 18, 27, 28. The
range of these samples is________.
42.
The set of all possible outcomes of a statistical experiment.
sample space.
Systematic and independent examination to determine whether quality
activities and related consults comply with planned arrangements.
Quality Audit.
If a subgroup size is constant, this control chart for actual number of rejects
may be used.
np chart.
Find the geometric mean of 3,5,8,3,7,2.
4.141.
In how many ways can you line up 5 persons to get up a bus when person A
and B will not follow each other?
72 ways.
From a box containing 6 red balls, 8 white balls and 10 blue balls, one ball is
drawn at random. Determine the probability that it is red, or white.
7/12.
In one state, 52% of the voters are Republicans, and 48% are Democrats. In a
second state, 47% of the voters are Republicans, and 53% are Democrats.
Suppose a simple random sample of 100 voters are surveyed from each
state. What is the probability that the survey will show a greater percentage
of Republican voters in the second state than in the first state?
0.24.
The probability that Mr. Unyok drives his car to work is 0.21; rides to work
with his neighbor is 0.14; takes a bus is 0.48; takes a taxi is 0.12 and walk is
0.05. What is the probability that he will take a taxi or go by the bus?
0.60.
Find the probability of getting a prime number thrice by tossing a die 5 times.
0.3125.
What is the probability that 4 or more adults reside at a randomly selected
home?
0.1.
Permutations that occur by arranging objects in a circle.
circular permutation.
For the following given data: 12, 0, 45, 16, 31, 45, 45, 22, 25, 27, and 28 the
median is
27.
A group of 3 people enter a theater after the lights had dimmed. They are
shown to the correct group of 3 seats by the usher. Each person holds a
number stub. What is the probability that each is in the correct seat
according to the number on seat and stub?
1/6.
It is used extensively in problems that deal with inferences about the
population mean or in problems that involve comparative samples.
t distribution.
An urn contains 6 red marbles and 4 black marbles. Two marbles are
drawn without replacement from the urn. What is the probability that both
of the marbles are black?
2/15.
Find the root mean square of 2.7, 3.8, 3.2 and 4.3.
3.55.
The probability that a student is accepted to a prestigeous college is 0.3. If 5
students from the same school apply, what is the probability that at most 2
are accepted?
0.84.
What is the sample variance of the following numbers?
2,4,6,8,10,12,14
18.7.
In the ECE Board Examinations, the probability that an examinee will pass
each subject is 0.8. What is the probability that an examinee will pass at least
two subjects out of the three board subjects?
0.896.
How many are there to select 3 candidates from 8 equally qualified recent
graduates from opening in an Engineering Firm?
56 ways.
100 random samples were taken from a large population. A particular
numerical characteristic of sampled items was measured. The results of the
measurments were as follows: (image)
The samllest value was 0.859, and the largest value was 0.958. The sum of all
100 measurements was 91.170. Except those noted, no measurements
occured more than twice.
What is the median of the measurements?
0.903.
The probablility that a Filipino boxer will win a silver medal is 0.40. Find the
probability that out of 5 Filipino boxers, at least one will win the silver.
0.903.
The probablility that a Filipino boxer will win a silver medal is 0.40. Find the
probability that out of 5 Filipino boxers, at least one will win the silver.
0.92.
Two cards are drawn in succession from a deck without replacement. What is
the probability that both cards are greater than 2 and less than 8?
98/663.
What is the sample variance of the following data?
0.50, 0.80, 0.75, 0.52, 0.60
0.0183.
The average salary for an employee at Acme Corporation is $30,000 per year,
with a variance of 4,000,000. This year, management awards the following
bonuses to every employee; 1. A Christmas bonus of $500, 2. An incentive
bonus equal to 10 percent of the employee's salary. What is the standard
deviation of employee bonuses?
200.
A subset of appolulation
sample.
The average of six scores is 38. If the highest score is removed, the average of
the remaining scores is 18.2. Find the highest score.
92.
The ages of all females from the freshmen students in Mapua Institute of
Technology are a
sample.
Marie is getting married tomorrow, at an outdoor ceremony in the desert. In
recent years, it has rained only 5 days each year. Unfortunately, the
weatherman has predicted rain for tomorrow. When it actually rains, the
weatherman correctly forecasts rain 90% of the time. When it doesn't rain,
he incorrectly forecasts rain 10% of the time. What is the probability that it
will rain on the day of Marie's wedding?
0.11.
A box contains 7 tickets, numbered from 1 to 7 inclusive. If 3 tickets are
drawn from the box, one at a time, determine the probability that the tickets
drawn are odd,even,odd.
6/35.
In continuing the use of control charts, possible action on the process can be:
action to remove assignable causes of variation that are brought to attention
by out-of-control points.
In how many ways can 4 boys and 4 girls be seated alternately in a row of 8
seats?
1152.
What is the probability of picking an orange ball and a white ball out of a bag
containing seven orange ball, eight green balls, and two white balls?
0.1.
A cat has a litter of seven kittens. If the probability is 0.52 that a kitten will be
female, what is the probability that exactly two of the seven will be male?
0.18.
Over a period of 4 consecutive years an employee has received 7.2,8.6,6.9,
and 9.8% annual increases. The ratios therefore of each new salary to the
previous salary are 1.072, 1.086,1.098. Find the geomatric mean of these 4
ratios and then determine the average percent increase for this employee
over the 4 year period
1.23 , 8.140.
Five-card stud is a poker game, in which a player is dealt 5 cards from an
ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. How many distinct poker hands could be
dealt?
2598960
What are the odds in favor of obtaining at least 4 heads when a coin is tossed
5 times?
0.268055555555556.
A coin is tossed three times. What is the probability that it lands on
heads exactly one time?
0.375.
A man works in a company whose employees had an average income this
past year for 280,000 pesos with a standard deviation of P 30,000. How much
did the man earn this past year if her z score is -0.8?
256000.
The probability that a randomly chosen sales prospects will make a purchase
is 0.18. If a salesman calls on 5 prospects, what is the probabilty that the
salesman will make exactly 3 sales?
0.0392.
What is the approximate probability of exactly two people in a group of
seven having the same birthday?
0.057.
A box contains 3 red marbles and 7 white marbles. A marble is drawn from
the box and a marble of the other color is then put in the box. If a second
marble is drawn from the box, what are the odds in favor of getting a second
red marble?
0.73125.
What is the harmonic mean between 3/8 and 4?
24/35.
Find the probability of throwing a prime number in one toss of a die.
0.50.
There are 7 students, 4 of whom are girls. They are participation in elections
for 4 student body offices, namely: President, Vice President, Secretary and
Treasurer. What is the probability that a girl becomes President and a boy,
Vice President?
2/7.
What is the probability of throwing a total of 8 ot 11 in a single throw of a
pair of dice?
0.1944.
Each year, a national achievement test is administered to 3rd graders. The
test has a mean score of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. If Jane's z-
score is 1.20, what was her score on the test?
118.
A business man has 4 dress shirts and 7 ties. How many different shirt/tie
outfits can he create?
28.
A class contains 10 men and 20 women of which half the men and half the
half brown eyes. Find the probability that a person chosen at random is a
man or has brown eyes.
2/3.
A man is promised a reward of P1,000 if he can draw 4 cards of the same suit
from a deck of 52 cards. What is the mathematical expectation?
10.56.
In a game of roulette, find the probability of betting on a winning number if
wheel includes "0" and "1" through "36".
1/38.
Which of the following is said to be an unbiased estimator of the population
mean.
Sample Mean.
The area of the statistics that involves constructing histograms (bar graphs),
frequency distributions, and sorting i
descriptive statistics.
What is the average for a students who receives grades of 85,76 and 82 on 3
tests and a 79 on the final examination in a certain course of the final
examination counts 3 times as much as the 3 tests?
80.
If the sum of the squares of 10 numbers is 645 and their standard deviation is
2.87, find their arithmetic mean?
7.5.
Suppose we randomly select 5 cards without replacement from an ordinary
deck of playing cards. What is the probability of getting exactly 2 red cards
(i.e., hearts or diamonds)?
0.32513.
The probability that a certain ball player will get a hit in one time is 0.30. Find
the probability that in 4 times at bat, he will make exactly one hit.
0.4116.
In a group of 10 boys and 15 girls. How many selections of 6 students are
possible?
177100.
A bag contains 10 red balls, 30 white balls, 20 black balls and 15 yellow balls.
If two balls are drawn, replacement being made after each drawing, find the
probability that only one is a red ball.
0.2311.
From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white balls, two balls are drawn
one at a time. Find the probability that both balls are white. Assume that the
first balls is returned before the second ball is drawn.
25/81.
100 random samples were taken from a large population. A particular If the probability that an event will happen exactly three times in five trials is
numerical characteristic of sampled items was measured. The results of the equal to the probability that it will happen exactly two times in six trials, find
measurments were as follows: (image) the probability that it will happen in one trial
The samllest value was 0.859, and the largest value was 0.958. The sum of all 0.4514.
100 measurements was 91.170. Except those noted, no measurements Find the probability of getting exactly 12 out of 30 questions on atrue or false
occured more than twice. question.
What is the mode of the measurements? 0.08.
0.904. For boys, the average number of absences in the first grade is 15 with a
If seven fair coins are simultaneously tossed in the air, what is the probability standard deviation of 7; for girls, the average number of absences is 10 with
that at least one will land heads up? a standard deviation of 6. In a nationwide survey, suppose 100 boys and 50
0.992. girls are sampled. What is the probability that the male sample will have at
Find the standard deviation of the set of numbers in the arithmetic most three more days of absences than the female sample?
progression 4,10,16,22….,46. 0.035.\
13.75. Out of 50 numbers, 8 were 10's, 12 were 7's, 15 were 16's, 10 were 9's and
A standard normal (Z) distribution is used to test a hypothesis if the sample the remaining numbers were 10's. Find the mean.
size is: 10.88.
equal to 30. In a poker consisting of 5 cards, find the probability of holding three aces.
What is the probability that either two heads or three heads will be thrown if 94/54,145.
six fair coins are tossed at once? The number of permulation of n distinct objects arranged in a circle is:
0.55. (n-1)!.
A committee of five individuals is to be formed from a group of 9 males and 5 In state lottery, first prize is won if a player selects six-number combination
females. What is the probability that the committee will include exactly 2 when six different numbers from 1 to 51 are drawn. If a player selects one
males? particular six-number combination, find his probability of winning the first
0.18. prize.
David attempts to shoot two free throws after being fouled in a basketball 5.5 x 10-8.
game. The probability that the first attempt is successful 0.70. The Three boys and three girls are sit in a row. Find the probability that the boys
probability that David is successful on the second attempt is 0.45. If David is and the girls in alternate seats.
successful on the first attempt, what is the probability that he makes the 1/10.
second attempt? A failure to conform to a particular specification.
0.6429. nonconformance.
An arrangement regardless of the order. A t distribution is used to test hypothesis if the sample size is:
combination. less than 30.
This year is considered the worst year for Tiger woods. His score for the ten If six coins are tossed together, find the probability of tossing at most two
tournaments he joined were: heads.
70 72 68 75 69 70 71 75 70 67 0.34375.
What is his average score this year? A person draws 3 balls in succession from a box containing 5 red balls, 6
70.7. yellow balss and 7 green balls. Find the probability of drawing the balls in the
The Acme Battery Company has developed a new cell phone battery. On order red, yellow and green.
average, the battery lasts 60 minutes on a single charge. The standard 0.0429.
deviation is 4 minutes. Suppose the manufacturing department runs a quality It is used in two-sample situations to draw inferences about the population
control test. They randomly select 7 batteries. The standard deviation of the variances.
selected batteries is 6 minutes. What would be the chi-square statistic F distribution.
represented by this test? If 15% of the bolts produced by a machine will be defective, determine the
13.5. probability that out of 5 both chosen at random, at most 2 bolts will
In a party where there are 35 people, the ratio of females to males is 4:3. If 2 defective.
persons are picked at random, what is the probability tha they are of 0.9734.
opposite sex? If median = 57.22 and the mean = 55.78, find the mode by using the
0.5042. empirical formula.
Four groups of students consisting of 10,15,18 and 20 individuals reported 60.10.
mean weights of 74,67,70 and 64 kg respectively. Find the mean weight of The four major golf tournaments are the Master's, PGA, U.S. Open, and
the students. British Open. The dotplot below shows how many of these tournaments
68.02 kg. Tiger Woods won in the first decade of his professional career. Which of the
Consists of the totality of the observations with which we are concerned. following statements is true?
population. The distribution is left-skewed.
What is the harmonic mean between 3/8 and 4? Suppose a die is tossed 5 times. What is the probability of getting exactly 2
24/35. fours?
100 random samples were taken from a large population. A particular 0.16.
numerical characteristic of sampled items was measured. The results of the Every year, 50,000 runners compete in the Peachtree Road Race. They run 10
measurments were as follows: (image) kilometers (a little over 6 miles). The average finishing time is 55 minutes,
The smallest value was 0.859, and the largest value was 0.958. The sum of all with a standard deviation of 10 minutes. Fred and Wilma completed the race
100 measurements was 91.170. Except those noted, no measurements in 61 and 51 minutes, respectively. Barney and Betty had finishing times
occured more than twice. with z-scores of -0.3 and 0.7, respectively. List the runners in order, starting
What is the mean of the measurements? with the fastest runner and ending with the slowest runner.
0.9117. Wilma, Barney, Fred, Betty.
100 random samples were taken from a large population. A particular o II. The interquartile range is about 8
numerical characteristic of sampled items was measured. The results of the
o III. The median is about 10
measurments were as follows: (image)
II only.
The samllest value was 0.859, and the largest value was 0.958. The sum of all
Three standard 52-card decks are used in a probability experiment. One card
100 measurements was 91.170. Except those noted, no measurements
is drawn from each deck. What is the probability that a diamond is drawn
occured more than twice.
from the first deck, an ace from the second, and the ace of hearts from the
What is the median of the measurements?
third?
0.903.
0.00037.
How many 6-number combinations can be generated from the numbers from
A box contains 4 lemons and 2 oranges. What is the probability of obtaining 1
1 to 42 inclusive, without repetition and with no regards to the order of the
lemon in 3 random seletions?
numbers?
2/9.
5245786.
Molly earned a score of 940 on a national achievement test. The mean test
Three bolts and three nuts are put in a box. If two parts are chosen at
score was 850 with a standard deviation of 100. What proportion of students
random, find the probability that one is a bolt and one is a nut
had a higher score than Molly?
3/5.
0.18.
It is used to analyzed the spread or dispersion of the process
What is the probability of drawing a face card on the first selection from a
R chart.
deck of 52 cards and without replacement, drawing an ace on the second
There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which there is a first prize and a second
selection?
prize. What is te probability of a man drawing a prize if the owns 5 tickets?
0.0181.
: 0.1918.
The quardratic mean of 11, 23 and 35 is
I. One college student read seven books. II. The college median is equal to
25.
the high school median. III. The mean is greater than the median in both
When it is operating properly, a chemical plant has a daily production rate
groups.
that is normally distributed wuth a mean of 880 tons/day and a standard
I, II, and III.
deviation of 21 tons/day. During an analysis period, the output is measured
A bag contains 5 red balls and 6 white balls. If 4 balls are drawn in succession
with random sampling on 50 consecutive days, and the mean output is found
without replacement, find the probability that the balls drawn are all o fte
to be 871 tons/day. With a 95 percent confidence level, determine if the
same color.
plant is operating properly.
2/33.
There is at least 95 percent probability that the plant is not operating
Five-card stud is a poker game, in which a player is dealt 5 cards from an
properly..
ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. How many distinct poker hands could be
A person draws 3 balls in succession from a box containing 5 red balls, 6
dealt?
yellow balls, and 7 green balls. Find the probability of drawing the balls in the
2598960.
order red, yellow and green.
Data consisting of 10 observations were taken from two diffirent samples.
0.04289.
The results indicated a mean x1 = 12.5 and mean x2 = 4.5. These date were
The probability that a man will be alive 25 years hence is 3/7 and that of his
subjected to hypothesis testing and the computed t value is greater than the
wife is 4/5. Determine that 25 years hence only the wife will be alive.
critical t value. This means that:
0.4571.
there is a significant difference between the two samples..
Which of the following is said to be an unbiased estimator of the population
A sample space containing a finite number of possibilities or an unending
mean.
sequence with as many elements as there are whole numbers
Sample Mean.
discrete.
In a group of 10 boys and 15 girls. How many selections of 6 students are Four friends take an IQ test. Their scores are 96, 100, 106, 114. Which of the
possible? following statements is true?
177100.
Which of the following is said to be an unbiased estimator of the population I. The mean is 103
mean. II. The mean is 104.
Sample Mean. III. The median is 100
If the sum of the squares of 10 numbers is 645 and their standard deviation is
IV. The median is 106.
2.87, find their arithmetic mean?
7.5. II only
Consists of the totality of the observations with which we are concerned. Given the eight number summary (at the right) for a collection of data, the
population. IQR is
If a computer randomly generates the last digit of a telephone number, find 45.
the probability that is odd or less than 4. The probability of getting a credit in an examination is 0.30. If three students
0.70. are selected at random, what is the probability that at least one of them got
The distribution of a normal random variable with mean zero and variance a credit?
one. 0.657.
standard normal distribution On a vacation trip, a family bought 21.5 liters of gasoline at 39.9 cents per
It involves the possibility of putting off the decision on the lot until a second liter, 18.7 liters at 42.9 cents per liter and 23.5 liters at 10.9 cents per liter.
sample has been taken. Find the mean price paid liter.
double sampling. 30.08 cents/liters.
A person draws 3 balls in succession from a box containing 5 red balls, 6
Consider the boxplot below
yellow balls, and 7 green balls. Find the probability of drawing the balls in the
Which of the following statements are true? order red, yellow and green.
o I. The distribution is skewed right 0.04289.
Five manufacturers produce a certain type of electronic tube. If three
manufacturers are selected at random, what is the probability that the
selection is exactly equal to two of the best three?
0.60.
What is the probability of getting two numbers whose sum is even from the
numbers 1,2,3,8,9,10 and 11?
0.4286.
In a group of 10 boys and 15 girls, how many selections of a students are
possible if it is composed of 2 boys and 4 girls?
61,425 ways.
The water content of soil from a borrow site is normally ditributed with a
mean of 14.2% and a standard deviation of 2.3%. What is the probability that
a sample taken from the site will have a water content above 16% or below
12%?
0.37.
The stemplot below shows the golf scores in a recent amateur tournament.
Which of the following statements are true?
o I. The range is 70
o II. The mean is 100
o III. The median is 100
I and II..
Four fair coins are tossed at once. What is the probability of obtaining three
heads and one tail?
1/4.
In how many ways can 5 different trees be planted in a circle?
24 ways.
If P(A) is the probability of the occurrence of an event A, then P(A) is the
probability of the non-occurrence of A. Suppose P(A) = 0.90 and P(B') = 0.20.
Find P(A and B).
0.72.
Jose's probability of winning a certain game whenever he plays it is 0.25. If he
plays the game 4 times, find his probability of winning just 3 times.
0.047.
If two dice are tossed, what is the probability of getting a 4 on the first die
and an odd number on the second die?
0.083.
The number of adults living in homes on a randomly selected city block is
described by the following probability distribution.
What is the standard deviation of the probability distribution?
0.89.
A public opinion survey explored the relationship between age and support
for increasing the minimum wage. The results are summarized in the two-
way table to the right. In the 21 to 40 age group, what percentage supports
increasing the minimum wage?
0.5.
The number of children a woman has is
discrete data.
Two students are working independently on a problem. Their respective
probabilities of solving the problem are 1/3 and 3/4. What is the probability
that at least one of them will solve the problem?
5/6.
Find the standard deviation of the numbers: 3,5,6,7,10,12, 15 and 18.
4.87.
If three sticks are drawn at random from five sticks whose lenghts are 1,2,3,4
and 5 cm, find the probability that the sticks drawn will from a triangle.
0.30.
Of 100 engineerings who applied for positions in a computer firm, 40 had
some prior work experience and 30 has professional license. However, 20
applicants had both work experience and a license. What is the probability
that a randomly chosen applicant has a license given that he has some
previous work experience?
0.50.
In a recent little league softball game, each player went to bat 4 times. The
number of hits made by each player is described by the following probability
distribution.
What is the mean of the probability distribution?
2.
There are 13 teams in a tournament. Each team is to play with each other
only once. What is the minimum number of days can they all play without
any team playing more than one game in any day?
13.
What value(s) of x will satisfy the equation x2 - 4 = 0?
both a & b.
One shot is fired from each of three guns, the probability of a hit being 0.1,
0.2 and 0.3 respectively. Find the probability of making at least one hit.
0.496.
An urn contains 6 red marbles and 4 black marbles. Two marbles are
drawn with replacement from the urn. What is the probability that both of
the marbles are black?
4/25.
What is the approximate probability of exactly two people in a group of
seven having a birthday on April 15?
1.6 x 10-4.
Two events that have no elements in common.
mutually exclusive.
In a swimming race, thae odds that A will win are 2 to 3 and the odds that B
will win are 1 to 4. Find the probability and the odds that A and B wins the
race.
3/4, 3:2.
When a record is made of an actual measured quality characteristic, the
quality is said to be expressed by
variables.
The height of a male college volleyball athlete from Mapua is
continuous data.
Five discs in a bag are numbered 1,2,3,4 and 5. What is the probability that
the sum of the numbers on 3 discs is greater than 10?
0.20.
One box contains 5 marbles and 2 blocks and a second box contains 1
marbles and 3 blocks. If an object is taken from one of two boxes at random,
what is the probability that it is a block?
0.5179.
Find the mean deviation of 3, 5, 7, 9
2.
The odds that a reviewee will not pass a board exam are
1:4. Find the probability that the will pass the exam.
4/5.
Two boys A and B work independently on a puzzle. If the probability that A
can solve the puzzle is 3/5 and that of B is 3/4. What is the probability that
the solution will be found?
0.90.