PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

PROBLEM SET

A survey of non healthy habits of 80 sophomore 11. A group of 3 people enter a theater after the
students of a certain seminary showed the following lights head dimmed. They are shown to the correct
habits: group of 3 seats by the usher. Each person holds a
45 drink alcoholic beverages; number stub. What is the probability that each is in
19 stay up late and smoke; the correct seat according to the numbers on seat
42 stay up late and stub?
22 drink alcohol and stay up late; a. 1/2 b. 2/3 c. 1/6 d. 1.3
40 smoke cigarettes;
9 practice clean 12. The probability of getting a credit in an
25 drink alcohol and cigarette examination is 1/3. If the three students are selected
1. How many drink alcohol only? at random, what is the probability that at least one
A. 8 b. 10 c. 12 d. 14 of them got a credit?
2. How many drink alcohol and smoke but sleeps a. 8/27 b. 20/27 c. 19/27 d. 22/27
early?
A. 12 b. 15 c. 16 d. 18 In the board exam 70% of taker is from Luzon, 20%
3. How many do all non healthy habits? from Visayas, and 10% from Mindanao. If 50% from
A. 9 b. 8 c. 10 d. 12 Luzon passed, 40% from Visayas passed, and 50%
from Mindanao Passed.
4. A fair die is tossed 180 times. Find the probability
P that the face 6 will appear between 29 and 32 13. Determine the Probability that a random
times inclusive. examinee came from Luzon and Passed
a. 0.57 b. 0.31 c. 0.42 d. 0.5 a. 0.12 c. 0.5
b. 0.4 d. 0.35
5. Suppose 2% of the items made by a factory are
defective. Find the probability P that there are 3 14. Determine the Probability that a random
defective items in a sample of 100 items. examinee passed.
a. 0.18 b. 0.24 c. 0.30 d. 0.26 a. 0.10 c. 0.48
b. 1.4x10-3 d. 0.5
6. A box contains three coins with a head on each
side, four coins with a tail on each side, and two fair 15. Given that the Examinee passed determine the
coins. If one of these nine coins is selected at probability that it came from Luzon
random and tossed once, what is the probability that a. 0.73 c. 0.12
a head will appear? b. 0.35 d. 0.48
a. 1/3 b. 4/9 c. 5/9 d. 2/3
16. The weight of the Student is Normally
A and B play 12 games of chess of which 6 are won Distributed with a mean of 50 kg and standard
by A, 4 are won by B, and 2 end in a draw. They deviation of 5 kg. Determine the probability that the
agree to play a tournament consisting of 3 games. weight of student will fall between 40 kg to 60 kg.
Find the probability that: a. 0.9545 c. 0.9304
b. 0.9012 d. 0.9870
7. Determine the probability two games end in a
draw. Two marbles are drawn in succession from the box
a. 5/72 b. 6/72 c. 7/72 d. 8/72 that contains 10 Red, 20 Blue and 15 Orange,
8. Determine the probability that all 3 games won by replacement being made after each drawing.
A.
a. 6/72 b. 1/8 c. 3/72 d. 5/72 17. Find the probability that at least one is blue.
a. 23/33 c. 104/225
9. Determine the probability that A and B win b. 176/405 d. 92/135
alternately.
a. 5/36 b. 4/36 c. 6/36 d. 3/36 18. Find the probability that at most one is red.
a. 221/225 c. 26/81
10. A student is taking two exams, one in Calculus b. 52/81 d. 2/3
and another in Physics. The probability that he will
pass the Calculus exam is 0.75 and the probability
that he will fail Physics exam is 0.20. The probability
that he will pass both exams is 0.65. What is the
probability that he will pass either exams?
a. 0.84 b. 0.83 c. 0.87 d. 0.9