SEATWORK #1
Prepared by: Engr. A.C.BIBAT
1. Situation: In my town, it's rainy one third of the
days. Given that it is rainy, there will be heavy
traffic with probability of 1/2, and given that it is
not rainy, there will be heavy traffic with
probability of 1/4. If it's rainy and there is heavy
traffic, I arrive late for work with probability of
1/2. On the other hand, the probability of being
late is reduced to 1/8 if it is not rainy and there is
no heavy traffic. In other situations, (rainy and no
traffic, not rainy and traffic) the probability of
being late is 1/4. If I pick a random day
A. What is the probability that it's not raining and
there is heavy traffic and I am not late? 1/8
B. What is the probability that I am late? 11/48
C. Given that I arrived late at work, what is the
probability that it rained that day? 6/11
2. The probability of having a baby boy is 0.51
and 0.49 for baby girl. You’re a researcher
interested in large families. As part of your latest
project, you’ve decided to interview 50 families
in which there are exactly 8 children. What is the
probability that, in at least one of the 50 families,
the children will all be of the same gender?
A.0.6726 C. 0.3274
B. 0.395 D. 0.605
3. A problem in probability is given to three
reviewees of mega, whose chances of solving it
are 1/3, 1/5 and 1/2. What is the probability that
the problem will be solved?
A. 1/30 B. 29/30
B. 4/15 D. 11/15
4. Engr. Og owns 11 pairs of shoes: six identical
black pairs, three identical brown pairs and two
identical gray pairs. If he picks two shoes at
random, what is the probability that they are the
same color and that one is a left shoe and the other
is a right shoe? 7/33
5. Mrs. Mahoney went shopping for some canned
goods which were on sale. She bought three times
as many cans of tomatoes as cans of peaches and
two times as many cans of tuna as cans of
peaches. If Mrs. Mahoney purchased a total of 24
cans, how many of each did she buy? 4, 12, 8
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6. The first side of a triangle is 2 inches shorter
than the second side. The third side is 5 inches
longer than the second. If the perimeter of the
triangle is 33 inches, how long is each side?
8,10,15
7. Doomtown is 200 miles due west of Sagebrush,
and Joshua is due west of Doomtown. At 9 A.M.
Mr. Archer leaves Sagebrush for Joshua. At 1
P.M. Mr. Sassoon leaves Doomtown for Joshua.
If Mr. Sassoon travels at an average speed 20 mph
faster than Mr. Archer and they each reach Joshua
at 4 P.M., how fast is each traveling?
65mph, 85mph
8. Felicia left Rome at 8 A.M. and drove her
Ferrari at 80 mph from Rome to Sorrento. She
then took the boat to Capri for the day,
returning to Sorrento 5 hours later. On the return
trip from Sorrento to Rome she averaged 60 mph
and arrived in Rome at 8 P.M. How far is it from
Rome to Sorrento? 240 miles
9. Forty liters of a 60% disinfectant solution are
to be mixed with a 10% solution to dilute it to a
20% solution. How much of the 10% solution
must be used? 160
10. A doctor orders 20 grams of a 52% solution
of a certain medicine. The pharmacist has only
bottles of 40% and bottles of 70% solution. How
much of each must he use to obtain the 20 grams
of the 52% solution? 12, 8
11. Mario bought $21.44 worth of stamps at the
post office. He bought 10 more 4-cent stamps
than 19-cent stamps. The number of 32-cent
stamps was three times the number of 19-cent
stamps. He also bought two $1 stamps. How
many of each kind of stamp did he purchase? 16,
26, 48
12. Mrs. Smythe is twice as old as her daughter
Samantha. Ten years ago the sum of their ages
was 46 years. How old is Mrs. Smythe? 22,44
13. A Roman statue is three times as old as a
Florentine statue. One hundred years from now
the Roman statue will be twice as old. Howald is
the Roman statue? 100, 300
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14. Jones can paint a car in 8 hours. Smith can
paint the same car in 6 hours. They start to paint
the car together. After 2 hours, Jones leaves for
lunch and Smith finishes painting the car alone.
How long does it take Smith to finish? 2.5
15. Bill, Bob, and Barry are hired to paint signs.
In 8 hours Bill can paint 1 sign, Bob can paint 2
signs, and Barry can paint 1 1/3 signs. They all
come to work the first day, but Barry doesn't like
the job and quits after 3 hours. Bob works half an
hour longer than Barry and quits. How long will
it take Bill to finish the two signs they were
supposed to paint? 1.5
16. Mr. Jordan wished to invest a sum of money
so that the interest each year would pay his son's
college expenses. If the money was invested at 8
percent and the college expenses were $10,000
per year, how much should Mr. Jordan invest?
125,000
17. An organization has 26 members. How many
ways are there to choose a chairman, vice
chairman, secretary and treasurer of the
organization, where no person can hold more
than one office?
A. 358800 B. 388500 C.14950 D. 95014
18. A lotto uses numbers 1 to 40. A winning
number consists of 5 different numbers in any
order. What are your chances of winning it?
A. 1/800865 C. 1/685008
B. 1/658008 D. 1/605880
19. A provincial chapter of PICE held a lottery
to raise funds for their organization, with
P20,000 top prize and with 3,000 tickets printed
and sold. What is the mathematical expectation
of a member if she bought 30 tickets?
A. 200 B. 100 C. 300 D. 400
20. In a certain high-school entrance
examination, an examinee may select 5 problems
from a set of 20 questions. In how many ways can
she make her choice?
A. 40551 B. 15540 C. 15051 D. 15504
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21. Determine the probability of getting at least
2 tails when a coin is tossed four times.
1/16
22. A bag contains 7 pink balls and 9 beige
balls. If 2 balls are drawn in succession without
replacement, find the probability that the two
balls drawn are both pink.
A. 5/41 B. 7/40 C. 3/31 D. 13/36
23. Rhazel draws 3 candies in succession from a
jar containing 5 Kopiko candies, 6 Maxx’s
candies and 7 Stork candies. Find the probability
of drawing these candies in order: Kopiko,
Maxx, Stork.
A. 67/389 C. 33/785
B. 19/253 D. 35/816
24. A group of 4 people entered an opera house
after the lights head dimmed. They are shown to
the correct group of 4 seats by the usher. Each
person holds a number stub. What is the
probability that each is in the correct seat
according to the numbers on seat and stub?
A. 1/24 B. 1/25 C. 1/26 D. 1/27
25. A certain 20 – item examination has only two
choices per question. What is the probability of
getting exactly 15 correct answers?
A. 787/33101 C. 671/11823
B. 969/65536 D. 183/19310
26. error (missing:7.01)
A sample size of 10 is taken with results given
by: 7.07, 7.00, 7.10, 6.97, 7.00, 7.03, 7.01, 6.98,
7.08, 7.01. Calculate the sample variance.
A. 0.0016 C. 0.0015
B. 0.0019 D. 0.0013
27. A tire manufacturer wants to determine the
inner diameter of a certain grade of tire. The data
are as follows: 572, 572, 573, 568, 569, 575, 565,
570. Determine the sample standard deviation.
3.162
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28. Compute the mean value of the numbers from

the tabulated values shown.
(Numbers) (Probability)
5.3 0.38
1.8 0.49
-2.6 0.13

A. 2.767 B. 2.887 C. 2.558 D. 2.312