PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

A. 1 to 4 B. 3 to 2 C. 1 to 5 D. 2 to 5
1. What is the probability of getting a 9 exactly once in 3 throws
with a pair of dice? 15. Find the mean, median and mode respectively of the
A. 0.033 B. 0.263 C. 0.862 D. 0.751 following numbers: 13, 13, 14, 12, 11, 10, 9, 11, 8, 11, 5, and
15.
2. How many different signals each consisting of 6 flags hung in A. 10, 10, 11 C. 10, 11, 11
a vertical line can be formed from 4 identical red flags B. 10, 11, 12 D. 11, 11, 11
and 2 identical blue flags?
A. 20 B. 12 C. 15 D. 18 16. On a deck of playing cards, 2 cards are drawn at random.
What is the probability of getting an A and a King?
3. How many 3 digit numbers can be formed from the digits A. 6/845 B. 5/935 C. 4/663 D. 8/663
2,4,6,8 and 9 if repetitions are allowed?
A. 110 B. 125 C. 145 D. 225 17. The hypothesis of conditional statement. The "if" part of an
"if-then" statement.
4. In how many ways can 10 different books be divided among A. antecedent C. condition
A, B, and C so that A gets 5 books, B 3 books, and C 2 books? B. postulate D. theorem
A. 2,520 C. 1360800
B. 5040 D. 263 18. A student has test scores of 75, 83, and 78. The final test has
weight equal to one third of the total grade, what should the
5. The probability that an examinee will pass in each subject in student strive for a minimum (integral) final test score, so that
the ECE Board exam is 0.80. What is the probability that an he gets a passing minimum average of 80.
examinee will pass at least 2 subjects? A. 81 B. 83 C. 82 D. 84
A. 0.68 B. 0.61 C. 0.64 D. 0.65
19. There are 3 copies each of 4 different books. In how many
6. A number between 1 and 1000 (inclusive) is randomly different ways can they be arranged on a shelf?
selected. What is the probability that it will be divisible by 4 A. 349,800 B. 549,600 C. 469,500 D. 369,600
and 5?
A. 0.03 B. 0.05 C. 0.04 D. 0.06 20. A class of 40 students took examination in Electronics and
Communications. If 30 passed in Electronics, 36 passed in
7. The probability that A can solve a given problem is 4/5, that Communication and 2 failed in both subjects, how many
B can solve it is 2/3 and that C can solve it is 3/7. If all three students passed in both subjects?
try, compute the probability that the problem will be solved. A. 28 B. 30 C. 26 D. 32
A. 0.64 B. 0.52 C. 0.96 D. 0.81
21. In how many ways can a party of 6 people be seated on a
8. Compute the value of the variance of the following sets of row of 6 seats if a certain 2 refuse to sit next to each other?
numbers 8,10,12,14,15,18. A. 240 ways C. 180 ways
A. 13.240 B. 12.694 C. 16.480 D. 15.354 B. 480 ways D. 320 ways

9. An organization has 25 members, 5 of whom are ECE’s. In 22. How many permutations of {m, n, o, p, q, r, s}end with m?
how many ways can a committee of 3 be formed so as to A. 720 B. 207 C. 630 D. 360
include at least one ECE?
A. 540 B. 1160 C. 970 D. 311 23. If there are 15 horses in a horse race, how many possibilities
are there for the win, place, and show (first, second, and third)
10. How many line segments can be formed with 10 distinct positions if all orders of finish are possible?
points, no two of which are collinear? A. 455 B. 544 C. 3072 D. 2730
A. 90 B. 45 C. 100 D. 10
24. A certain protocol uses 10 bits per message block. If the
11. In this years playing season, a baseball player has been up number of 1’s per block is limited to exactly four, how many
to bat 140 times and has hit the ball successfully 35 times. different message blocks can be generated?
How many consecutive times must the player successfully hit A. 120 B. 210 C. 3628800 D. 5040
the ball in order to obtain a batting average of 0.30.
25. Xyler flipped a coin 10 times. Each flip comes up either heads
or tails. How many possible outcomes contain at most three
A. 12 B. 10 C. 9 D. 11 tails?
A. 176 B. 968 C. 720 D. 120
12. An urn contains 4 white balls and 3 black balls. Another urn
contains 3 white balls and 5 black balls. If one ball is drawn 26. How many permutations of the letters ABCDEFG contain the
from each urn, determine the probability that the balls drawn string BGCF?
will be 1 white and 1 black.
A. 576 B. 24 C. 38 D. 636
A. 27/56 B. 9/56 C. 29/56 D. 5/14
27. How many permutations of the letters ABCDEFG contain the
13. It is a set of ordered pairs of numbers. string BCD and DEF?
A. function C. range
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7
B. domain D. relation
28. How many permutations of the letters ABCDEFG contain the
14. Three friends A, B, and C are in a race. The odds that A will string BCA and ABF?
win are 7 to 5, and the odds that B will win are 1 to 3. What
A. 1 B. 3 C. 0 D. 5
are the odds in favor of C?
29. Droodles Charity Sweepstakes sold one hundred tickets, 41. Rhazel draws 3 candies in succession from a jar containing 5
numbered 1, 2, 3, …., 100 to 100 different people for a Kopiko candies, 6 Maxx’s candies and 7 Stork candies. Find
drawing. Four different prizes are awarded, including a grand the probability of drawing these candies in order: Kopiko,
prize (a trip to the Bahamas). How many ways are there to Maxx, Stork.
award the prizes if the person holding ticket 13 does not win A. 67/389 B. 19/253 C. 33/785 D. 35/816
a prize?
A. 93054240 C. 90354420 42. A group of 4 people entered an opera house after the lights
B. 90345240 D. 90345024 head dimmed. They are shown to the correct group of 4 seats
by the usher. Each person holds a number stub. What is the
30. An organization has 26 members. How many ways are there probability that each is in the correct seat according to the
to choose a chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer numbers on seat and stub?
of the organization, where no person can hold more than one A. 1/24 B. 1/25 C. 1/26 D. 1/27
office?
A. 358800 C.14950 43. A certain 20 – item examination has only two choices per
B. 388500 D. 95014 question. What is the probability of getting exactly 15 correct
answers?
31. How many bit strings of length 10 contain at least three 1s A. 787/33101 C. 671/11823
and at least three 0s? B. 969/65536 D. 183/19310
A. 129 B. 219 C. 192 D. 912
44. In how many ways can a caravan of 9 covered wagons from
32. What is the coefficient of x^9 in (2 – x)^19? India be arranged in a circle?
A. 94595072 C. -94595072 A. 40230 B. 40203 C. 42300 D. 40320
B. 95409572 D. -95409572
45. In how many ways can 3 acacias, 4 narras, and 2
33. In commemoration of PERCDC’s golden anniversary, Engr. mahoganies be arranged along a property line if one does not
Ronnie held a sportsfest. Fifteen teams joined. Each team is distinguish among trees of the same kind?
to play each other only once. Determine the minimum number A. 1260 B. 1620 C. 1026 D. 1062
of days can all the teams play without any team playing more
than one game in any day? 46. Suppose that in a senior college class of 500 students it is
A. 11 B. 12 C. 13 D. 14 found that 210 smoke, 258 drink alcoholic beverages, 216 eat
between meals, 122 smoke and drink alcoholic beverages,
34. A lotto uses numbers 1 to 40. A winning number consists of 83 eat between meals and drink alcoholic beverages, 97
5 different numbers in any order. What are your chances of smoke and eat between meals, and 52 engage in all three of
winning it? these bad health practices. If a member of this senior class is
A. 1/800865 C. 1/685008 selected at random, find the probability that the student
B. 1/658008 D. 1/605880 smokes but does not drink alcoholic beverages.
A. 23/125 B. 24/125 C. 22/125 D. 27/125
35. A provincial chapter of IECEP held a lottery to raise funds for
their organization, with P20,000 top prize and with 3,000 47. The probability that a certain industry will locate in Cagayan
tickets printed and sold. What is the mathematical de Oro is 0.7, the probability that it will locate in Iloilo is 0.4,
expectation of a member if she bought 30 tickets? and the probability that it will locate in either Cagayan de Oro
A. 200 B. 100 C. 300 D. 400 or Iloilo or both is 0.8. What is the probability that the industry
will locate in both cities?
36. How many triangles are determined by 15 points, no three of A. 0.1 B. 0.3 C. 0.4 D. 0.5
which are collinear?
A. 544 B. 454 C. 455 D. 554 48. If a letter is chosen at random from the English alphabet, find
the probability that the letter is listed, somewhere after the
37. In a certain high-school entrance examination, an examinee letter g.
may select 5 problems from a set of 20 questions. In how A. 19/26 B. 17/26 C. 15/26 D. 11/26
many ways can she make her choice?
A. 40551 C. 15051 49. Dong's Pizza Company uses taste testing and statistical
B. 15540 D. 15504 analysis of the data prior to marketing any new product.
Consider a study involving four types of crusts (thin, thin with
38. In an examination, the probability of getting a credit is 1/3. If garlic and oregano, thin with bits of cheese and thick). Dong's
four students are selected at random, what is the probability is also studying four sauces, (standard, a new sauce with
that at least one of them got a credit? more garlic, a new sauce with fresh basil, and a new sauce
A. 26/31 B. 65/81 C. 33/68 D. 13/78 with pandan). What is the probability that a judge will get a
plain thick crust with a pandan sauce for his first taste test?
39. Determine the probability of getting at least 2 tails when a coin A. 1/15 B. 1/17 C. 1/12 D. 1/16
is tossed four times.
A. 3/8 B. 3/16 C. 3/7 D. 5/8 50. Suppose it is known that the probability that a certain
electronic component survives for more than 5000 hours is
40. A bag contains 7 pink balls and 9 beige balls. If 2 balls are 0.43. Suppose also that the probability that the component
drawn in succession without replacement, find the probability survives no longer than3000 hours is 0.07. What is the
that the two balls drawn are both pink. probability that the life is greater than 3000 hours?
A. 5/41 B. 7/40 C. 3/31 D. 13/36 A. 0.91 B. 0.93 C. 0.95 D. 0.97
51. How many even four-digit numbers can be formed from the 64. An organization has 25 members, 4 of whom are ECE’s. In
digits 0,1,2,5,6 and 9 if each digit can be used only once? how many ways can a committee of 3 be formed so as to
A. 60 B. 96 C. 156 D. 300 include at least one ECE?
A. 540 B. 970 C. 128 D. 311
52. How many three-digit numbers can be formed from the digits
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, if each digit can be used only once? 65. Xyler flipped a coin 10 times. Each flip comes up either heads
That number should be greater than 330. or tails. How many possible outcomes contain at most four
A. 102 B. 101 C. 108 D. 105 tails?
A. 386 B. 848 C. 5040 D. 210
53. There are 3 copies each of 4 different books. In how many
different ways can they be arranged on a shelf? 66. Four men A, B, C and D, line up in a row. What is the
A. 349,800 C. 469,500 probability that man A is at either end of the row?
B. 549,600 D. 369,600 A. 1/2 B. 1/4 C. 1/3 D. 1/6

54. Twelve books consisting of 6 mathematics books, 2 67. A die is loaded in such a way that an even number is twice
electronics book, and 4 communications books are arranged likely to occur as an odd number. If E is the event that a
on a shelf at random. How many ways that books of the same number less than 4 occurs on a single toss of the die, find
kind are all together? P(E).
A. 207360 B. 2310 C. 34560 D. 13860 A. 1/2 B. 1/3 C. 4/9 D. 2/3

55. In how many ways can 7 scientists be assigned to one triple 68. With the throw of two dice, what is the probability that the sum
and two double hotel rooms? will be a prime number?
A. 84 B. 210 C. 168 D. 420 A. 4/11 B. 7/18 C. 5/12 D. 5/11

56. How many distinguishable arrangements of the letters in the 69. One letter is taken from each of the words PARALLEL and
word CONTEST start with two vowels? LEVEL at random. What is the probability of getting the same
A. 120 B. 10 C. 60 D. 240 letter?
A. 1/5 B. 1/20 C. 3/20 D. 3/4
57. In how many ways can 5 people line up to pay their electric
bills if two particular persons refuse to follow each other? 70. The probability that an American industry will locate in Munich
A. 120 ways C. 90 ways is 0.7, the probability that it will locate in Brussels is 0.4, and
B. 72 ways D. 140 ways the probability that it will locate in either Munich or Brussels
or both is 0.8. What is the probability that the industry will
locate (a) in both cities? (b) in neither city?
58. How many permutations of the letters ABCDEFG contain the A. 0.3 and 0.2 C. 0.28 and 0.32
string BGCF?
B. 0.2 and 0.3 D. 0.32 and 0.28
A. 576 B. 24 C. 38 D. 636

71. If the probability that the Giants will win the NFC
59. A president and a treasurer are to be chosen from a student
championship is p and if the probability that the Raiders will
club consisting of 50 people. How many different choices of
win the AFC championship is q, what is the probability that
officers are possible if A will serve only if he is president?
only one of these teams will win its respective championship
A. 2450 B. 2401 C. 1225 D. 2248
A. pq B. p + q – 2pq C. p – q D. 1 – pq

60. An organization has 25 members. How many ways are there

72. Find the probability of obtaining all ace on three draws from a
to choose a chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer
deck of cards when there is no replacement before the next
of the organization, where no person can hold more than one
one is drawn.
office?
A. 1/525 B. 1/5525 C. 3/26 D. 1/2197
A. 358800 C. 303600
B. 388500 D. 12650
73. On a deck of playing cards, 2 cards are drawn at random.
What is the probability of getting an A and a King?
61. A club has 9 members. How many ways can 5 members from A. 6/845 B. 5/935 C. 4/663 D. 8/663
the club be seated at a round table?
A. 3024 B. 24 C. 126 D. 15120
74. What is the probability that of 5 cards dealt from a well
shuffled deck, 3 will be hearts and 2 spades?
62. In how many relative orders can we seat 7 people at a round A. 11/14450 B. 143/16660 C. 11/7225 D. 3/1352
table with a certain 3 people side by side.
A. 144 B. 5040 C. 720 D. 1008
75. Two cards are drawn in succession from a deck without
replacement. What is the probability that both cards are
63. A craftsperson has six different kinds of seashells. How many
greater than 2 and less than 8?
different bracelets can be constructed if only four shells to be
A. 95/663 B. 190/663 C. 63/221 D. 46/221
used in any one bracelet?
A. 60 B. 360 C. 90 D. 45
76. A hotel has five single rooms available, for which six men and
three women apply. What is the probability that the rooms will
be rented to three men and two women?
 A. 23/112 B. 5/9 C. 5/8 D. 10/21 A. 1/4 B. 1/2 C. 1/26 D. 1/13

77. If each coded item in a catalog begins with 3 distinct letters 85. A card is selected at random from a standard 52 card deck.
followed by 4 distinct nonzero digits, find the probability of We are told that a king was not selected. Assuming all cards
randomly selecting one of these coded items with the first are equally likely to be selected, what is the probability that
letter a vowel and the last digit even. the queen of hearts was selected?
A. 25/234 B. 10/117 C. 12/117 D. 27/234 A. 1/48 B. 3/48 C. 1/26 D. 1/13

78. One bag contains 4 white balls and 3 black balls, and a 86. A random sample of 200 people is classified by gender and
second bag contains 3 white balls and 5 black balls. One ball their highest level of education attained. Among the males,
is drawn from the first bag and placed unseen in the second 38 finished elementary, 28 finished high school and 22
bag. What is the probability that a ball now drawn from the finished college. Among the females, 45 finished elementary,
second bag is black? 50 finished high school and 17 finished college. If a person is
A. 38/63 B. 25/63 C. 29/63 D. 34/63 picked at random from this group, find the probability that the
person is a male, given that he finished high school.
79. Police plans to enforce speed limits by using radar traps at 4 A. 14/39 B. 17/39 C. 16/39 D. 11/39
different locations within the city limits. The radar traps at
each of the locations L1, L2, L3, and L4 are operated 40%, 87. Two six-sided dice are rolled. Find the probability that the first
30%, 20%, and 30% of the time, and if a person who is die is not a 5, given that the second die is not a 2.
speeding on his way to work has probabilities of 0.2, 0.1, 0.5, A. 1/5 B. 1/25 C. 5/6 D. 5/12
and 0.2, respectively, of passing through these locations. If
the person received a speeding ticket on his way to work, 88. A pair of Dice is thrown. If it is known that one die shows a 4,
what is the probability that he passed through the radar trap what is the probability that the other die shows a 5?
located at L2? A. 11/12 B. 1/6 C. 2/11 D. 19/36
A. 2/9 B. 8/27 C. 10/27 D. 1/9
89. Three dice are tossed. A person sitting to the side knows that
80. Suppose that the four inspectors at a film factory are two of the dice are loaded and always come up 2. What is the
supposed to stamp the expiration date on each package of probability of rolling a 5?
film at the end of the assembly line. John, who stamps 20% A. 3/16 B. 16/36 C. 13/16 D. 16/216
of the packages, fails to stamp the expiration date once in
every 200 packages; Tom, who stamps 60% of the packages,
fails to stamp the expiration date once in every 100 packages; 90. Of all the articles in a box, 80% are satisfactory, while 20%
Jeff, who stamps 15% of the packages, fails to stamp the are not. What is the probability of obtaining exactly five good
expiration date once in every 90 packages; and Pat, who items out of eight randomly selected items?
stamps 5% of the packages, fails to stamp the expiration once A. 0.132 B. 0.013 C. 0.147 D. 0.800
in every 200 packages. If the customer complains that her
package of film does not show the expiration date, what is the 91. Find the probability of throwing at least one ace in 10 throws
probability that it was inspected by John? of a die.
A. 12/107 B. 107/12000 C. 72/107 D. 12/27 A. 0.838 B. 0.161 C. 0.051 D. 0.238

81. In a certain region of the country it is known from past 92. The probabilities are 0.4, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.1, respectively, that
experience that the probability of selecting an adult over 40 a delegate to a certain convention arrived by air, bus,
years of age with cancer is 0.05. If the probability of a doctor automobile, or train. What is the probability that among 9
correctly diagnosing a person with cancer as having the delegates randomly selected at this convention, 3 arrived by
disease is 0.78 and the probability of incorrectly diagnosing a air, 3 arrived by bus, 1 arrived by automobile, and 2 arrived
person without cancer as having the disease is 0.06, what is by train?
the probability that a person is diagnosed as having cancer? A. 0.0015 B. 0.0077 C. 0.0024 D. 0.0127
A. 0.0960 B. 0.0468 C. 0.0769 D. 0.8400
93. The probability that an arrow fired from a point will hit the
82. The probability that a physician correctly diagnoses a target is 1/4. Three such arrows are fired simultaneously
particular illness is 0.7. Given that the physician makes an towards the target from that very point. What is the probability
incorrect diagnosis, the probability that the patient enters a that the target will be hit?
law suit is 0.9. What is the probability that the physician A. 27/64 B. 37/64 C. 1/64 D. 63/64
makes an incorrect diagnosis and the patient sues?
A. 0.28 B. 0.29 C. 0.27 D. 0.25 94. The probability that A can solve a given problem is 4/5, that
B can solve it is 2/3 and that C can solve it is 3/7. If all three
83. A coin is tossed three times. Given that at least one head try, compute the probability that the problem will be solved by
appears, what is the probability that exactly two heads will at least 2 of them.
appear? A. 0.23 B. 0.48 C. 0.96 D. 0.70
A. 3/8 B. 3/4 C. 3/7 D. 5/8
95. Find the probability that a person flipping a coin gets the third
84. A card is selected at random from a standard 52 card deck. head on the seventh flip.
Assuming all cards are equally likely to be selected, what is A. 15/128 B. 11/128 C. 17/128 D. 19/128
the probability that a red card was selected given that a king
was selected?
96. The probability that an examinee passes the board
examination is 0.8. Find the probability that the examinee will
pass the examination on the fourth try.
A. 3/625 B. 4/625 C. 8/625 D. 9/625

97. In an NBA championship series, the team which wins four

games out of seven will be the winner. Suppose that the team
A has probability 0.55 of winning over the team B and both
teams A and B face each other in the championship games,
what is the probability that team A will win the series in six
games?
A. 0.3369 B. 0.1853 C. 0.0926 D. 0.0758

98. The probability that a person, living in a certain city, owns a

dog is estimated to be 0.3. Find the probability that the tenth
person randomly interviewed in that city is the fifth one to own
a dog.
A. 0.0600 B. 0.1029 C. 0.1715 D. 0.0515

99. Suppose a die is rolled three times. What is the probability

that all three rolls are the same?
A. 1/36 B. 1/216 C. 5/36 D. 5/216

100. Three dice are tossed. A person sitting to the side knows that
two of the dice are loaded and always come up 2. What is the
probability of rolling a 5?
A. 3/16 B. 16/36 C. 13/16 D. 16/216