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Assignment # 06 Problem Solving and Data Analysis

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Topic: Permutation, Combination and Probability

1. In a bag, there are ‘x+2’ Blue balls, 2x + 6 Yellow balls and one Green ball. If there are no other colors,
what is the probability of taking out a Blue or a Green ball?
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) x/x+2 (D) Can’t be determined
2. How many four-digit numbers that do not contain the digits 2 or 7 are there?
(A) 2401 (B) 3584 (C) 4096 (D) 5040
3. In how many ways can 4 people be seated at a round table?
(A) 24 (B) 12 (C) 6 (D) 3
4. How many 2 digit numbers are there with distinct digits?
(A) 100 (B) 90 (C) 81 (D) 72
5. In how many ways can 10 students be seated in a row such that the 2 most talkative children never sit
together?
(A) 10! (B) 9! x 8 (C) 9! x 2 (D) 72
6. There are 9 students in a class; 5 boys and 4 girls. Three students are chosen at random. What is the
probability of choosing more than one girl?
(A) 3/5 (B) 4/15 (C) 17/42 (D) 15/42
7. There are 3 black socks, 4 yellow socks, and 5 blue socks in a drawer. If two socks are picked up
randomly, what is the probability that the selected socks are of the same color?
(A) 1/2 (B) 7/16 (C) 4/11 (D) 19/66
Questions 8 - 9 refer to the following information:
A bag contains 15 balls, numbered 1 through 15.
8. What is the probability of selecting a number that is odd or a multiple of 5?
(A) 2/15 (B) 3/15 (C) 8/15 (D) 9/15
9. A ball is selected at random then replaced in the bag. A second selection is then made. What is the
probability that the first number is a prime number and the second number is a multiple of 3?
(A) 2/15 (B) 5/15 (C) 6/15 (D) 7/15
10. The SAT scores of 30 students in a class are shown in the chart below:
SAT Score 1450 1500 1550 1600
Number of Students 12 7 6 5
If a student is chosen at random, which of the following is the probability that the student scored at
least 1500 on the SAT test?
(A) 11/30 (B) 2/5 (C) 3/5 (D) None of these
11. How many two digit even numbers can be formed using the digits 0, 1, 4 and 5, when repetition is
allowed?
(A) 12 (B) 9 (C) 6 (D) 5
12. A bag contains 7 red marbles and 14 marbles that are not red. If one marble is drawn at random from
the bag, what is the probability that the marble is not red?
(A) 14/7 (B) 2/3 (C) 1/3 (D) None of these

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13. In a jar, 3/8 of the marbles are blue and 1/5 are yellow. 1/3 of the blue balls and 1/4 of the yellow
balls are broken. If no other balls in the jar are broken, then what is the probability that a ball
randomly picked from the jar is a broken one?
(A) 1/12 (B) 7/40 (C) 3/8 (D) 33/40
14. In an experiment, it is found that the probability that a released bee will land on a painted target is
3/4 . It is also found that when a bee lands on the target, the probability that the bee will attempt to
sting the target is 2/3 . In this experiment, what is the probability that a released bee will land on the
target and attempt to sting it?
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/2 (D) 17/12
15. If the probability that John will miss at least one of the ten jobs assigned to him is 0.47, then what is
the probability that he will do all ten jobs?
(A) 1 (B) 0.90 (C) 0.53 (D) none of these
16. A bag contains 6 white marbles and 14 marbles that are not white. What is the probability that the
first three marbles drawn at random from this bag will be white? (Repetition is not allowed)
(A) 1/57 (B) 3/20 (C) 1/2 (D) 56/57
17. The given table summerizes the food preferences of passengers on a particular flight. If a business
class passenger is choosen at random from this flight, what is the probability that the passenger
chosen prefer non - veg food?
Veg Food Non-veg Food
Business Class 13 31
Economy Class 29 23
(A) 31/54 (B) 31/96 (C) 31/44 (D) none of these
18. The ratio of the number of red balls, to blue balls, to green balls in an urn is 3 : 4 : 5. What is the
probability that a ball chosen at random from the urn is a blue ball?
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/3 (C) 5/12 (D) can’t be determined
Questions 19 -20 refer to the following information:
Consider the cubic polynomial p(x) = ax3 + bx2 + cx + d
19. If the coefficients, a, b, c and d come from the set { –5, –3, 2, 4,7,11}, find the number of possible
cubics if no repetitions are allowed?
(A) 6 (B) 360 (C) 720 (D) 1296
20. Find the number of cubics if the coefficients now come from { –5, –3, 0, 2, 4, 7} ?(again without
repetitions)
(A) 720 (B) 600 (C) 360 (D) 300
21. If a fair coin is flipped three times, what is the probability that the result will be heads exactly twice?
(A) 1/3 (B) 3/8 (C) 5/8 (D) 2/3
22. If a fair coin is flipped three times, what is the probability that the result will be at least two tails?
(A) 1/2 (B) 2/3 (C) 3/8 (D) 5/8

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Questions 23 to 26 refer to the information below:
Adam invites his two friends Nancy and Madona to his birthday party. The probability that Nancy
attends the party is 5/7 . The probability that Madona attends the same party is 3/8.
23. What is the probability that at least one of them attends the party?
(A) 5/28 (B) 2/7 (C) 5/8 (D) 23/28
24. What is the probability that exactly one of them attends the party?
(A) 6/56 (B) 25/56 (C) 31/56 (D)1/2
25. What is the probability that both of them attend the party?
(A) 10/56 (B) 15/56 (C) 10/49 (D)1 5/64
26. What is the probability that neither of them attend the party?
(A) 5/28 (B) 15/56 (C) 10/49 (D)1 5/64
27. SAT Mock Test is given by 750 students. 450 of the students are girls. Half the girl students are less
than fifteen years old, and one-fourth of the male students are less than fifteen years old. If one of the
students is selected at random to receive a prize, what is the probability that the student selected is
less than fifteen years old?
(A) 1/8 (B) 1/2 (C) 3/8 (D) 2/5
28. If a number is to be chosen at random from the set { -18, - 15, -11, -4, 0 , 3, 7, 12 }, what is the
probability that it is a member of the solution set of |𝑠+ 2| <8.5 ?
(A) 1/8 (B) 1/2 (C) 3/8 (D) 2/3
29. A jar contains ‘y’ yellow marbles, ‘w’ white marbles and ‘b’ black marbles. If two marbles are to be
taken from the jar one at a time, then what is the probability that the first marble is yellow and the
second marble is white?
(A) yw/(y+w+b) (B) yw/(y+w+b)2 (C) (y + w) /(y+w+b) (D) yw/(y+w+b) (y+w+b-1)
30. Each student in AGSD Riser Batch is either doing SAT or TOEFL or both. Of every three TOEFL students,
one is also doing SAT. Of every two SAT students, one is also doing TOEFL. What is the probability that
a student randomly selected from the batch is doing both SAT and TOEFL?
(A) 1/5 (B) 1/4 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/2

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Grid-Ins Type Questions
31. In a class of 30 students, one half of the students are boys, if a teacher has to select 8
students and the first 7 are girls. What is the probability that the 8th student is a girl?

32. If there are 5 questions in a SAT Quiz, In how many ways, a student can solve these questions,
if he solves one or more questions?

33. What is the maximum value of ‘n’ such that 3n divides into 13! Evenly?

34. A bag contains 5 Red and 4 Blue candies. In how many ways can 4 candies be chosen such
that there are at the most 3 candies of each color?

35. Using all the prime numbers less than 9 how many two-digit even numbers can be made if
repetition is allowed?

36. Using all the prime numbers less than 9 how many two-digit even numbers can be made if
repetition is not allowed?

37. What is the probability that the product of two integers (not necessarily different integers)
randomly selected from the numbers 1 through 40, inclusive, is odd?

38. Eight runners have made it to the finals in the 500-meter race. In how many different ways
can the gold, silver and bronze medals be awarded?

39. If two fair, six-sided dice are rolled, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers will
be 4?

40. Tom is taking an examination that consists of two parts, A and B, with the following
instructions:
Part A contains seven questions, and a student must answer three.
Part B contains five questions, and a student must answer two.
Part A must be completed before starting Part B.
In how many ways can the test be completed?

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Topic: Statistics

1. If 5n+2 is the median of five consecutive integers. What is the mean of the integers?
(A) 5n (B) 5n + 2 (C) 5n – 2 (D 5n+4
2. If there are 40 numbers and the average of the first 15 numbers is 16 , next 17 numbers is 18 and the
last set is 19. What is the average of the entire set?
(A) 13.5 (B) 16.25 (C) 17.45 (D) 18.25
3. Five positive integers have a mode of 5 and a median of 3. What is their sum?
(A) 17 (B) 16 (C) 14 (D) can’t be determined
4. If the average of five distinct positive integers is 5 then find the maximum possible range of integers?
(A) 20 (B) 15 (C) 14 (D) can’t be determined
5. A car club holds a restoration contest for classic cars. Each car is scored on a scale of 1 to 10. There are
six cars entered into the competition. If these six cars received scores of {2, 4, 6, 6, 8, and 10}, how
many cars received a score that exceeded the mean score?
(A) Two (B) Three (C) Four (D) Five
6. If x is the average of y and 15, y is the average of z and 19, and z is the average of x and 26, what is the
average of x , y ,and z ?
(A) 60 (B) 20 (C) 12 (D can’t be determined
7. Which one of the following could be an integer?
(A) Average of two consecutive integers (B) Average of four consecutive integers
(C) Average of six consecutive integers (D) Average of nine consecutive integers
8. If the average of five numbers is -17, and the sum of three of the numbers is 23, then what is the
average of the other two numbers?
(A) –62 (B) –31 (C) 31 (D) none of these
9. If on a SAT Quant test three students answered 90% of the questions correctly and two students
answered 85% correctly, then find the average percent for the questions answered correctly?
(A) 87.5% (B) 88% (C) 88.5% (D) can’t be determined
10. The monthly rainfall for the first seven months of 2020 in inches was 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 4, 11. Which one of
the following equals the mean monthly rainfall for the 7 months and the median of the rain fall for the
7 months, respectively?
(A) 7, 9 (B) 6, 7.5 (C) 7, 7 (D) 6, 9
11. A six-sided die was rolled 40 times and the results are tabulated below:
Roll Frequency
1 8
2 5
3 7
4 9
5 7
6 4
What is the difference between the Mode of the rolls and the Median of the rolls?
(A) 1/2 (B) 1 (C) 11/2 (D) None of these

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12. Which one of the followings: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range is greater in the data set {132, 149,
152, 164, 164, 175}?
(A) Mean (B) Median (C) Mode (D) Range
13. The average (arithmetic mean) of five numbers: n, n - 3, 2n + 1, 3n - 4 and 5n + 10 is 8. Which of the
following is true?
(A) Median = 5, Range = 18 (B) Median = 5, Range = 25
(C) Median =7, Range = 18 (D) Median = 7, Range = 25
14. Which one of the following numbers can be removed from the set S = {0, 3, 6,7, 9, 11} without
changing the average of set S?
(A) 0 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 9
15. In a set of three numbers, the average of first two numbers is 5, the average of the last two numbers
is 7, and the average of the first and the last numbers is 9. What is the average of three numbers?
(A) 42 (B) 21 (C) 7 (D) can’t be determined
16. The mean length of a Bollywood song released in the 1980’s was 5 minutes and 12 seconds. The mean
length of a Bollywood song released in the 1990’s was 5 minutes and 34 seconds. Which of the
following must be true about the mean length of a Bollywood song released between 1980 and 1999?
(A) The mean length must be equal to 5 minutes and 23 seconds
(B) The mean length must be less than 5 minutes and 23 seconds
(C) The mean length must be greater than 5 minutes and 23 seconds
(D) The mean length must be between 5 minutes and 12 seconds and 5 minutes and 34 seconds
17. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 𝑎, 𝑏, and 17 is 13, what is the average of 𝑎 and 𝑏?
(A) 6 (B) 11 (C) 22 (D) can’t be determined
18. A six-sided die was rolled 24 times and the results are tabulated below:
Roll Frequency
1 4
2 6
3 2
4 7
5 3
6 2
What is the difference between the average (arithmetic mean) of the rolls and the median of the
rolls?
(A) -77/24 (B) -7/24 (C) -7/2 (D) None of these
19. Which of the following pair have their Mean and Median equal ?
l. p, p+1, p+2, p+3, p+4 II. p, 2p, 3p, 4p, 5p III. 1/p, 2/p, 3/p, 4/p, 5/p
(A) I (B) II (C) I and II (D) All of these
20. A group of 35 students of SAT batch has a mean age of 16. A different group of 25 students of ACT
batch has a mean age of 17. What is the mean age of the students of the two groups together?
(A) 13.8 (B) 14.2 (C) 15.6 (D) 16.4
21. Which of the following sets has the smallest standard deviation?
(A) {18, 18, 18, 18} (B) {0, 3, 6, 9} (C) {-6, 0, 6, 18, 30} (D) {–4, –1, –1, 2}

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22. Three TOEFL batches: A, B and C, take a Mock test; the average score in batch A is 103.The average
score in batch B is 106.The average score in batch C is 115.The average score of all students in batches
A and B together is 104.The average score of all students in classes B and C together is 110.What is the
average for all the three classes?
(A) 104.24 (B) 106.32 (C) 108 (D) Information is insufficient
23. In a set of 5 positive integers : 116, 127, x, y, and z, all five integers are different and their arithmetic
mean is 165. If the integers x, y, and z are greater than 137, what is the greatest possible range of the
integers?
(A) 174 (B) 189 (C) 277 (D) 305
24. Two data sets A and B are defined as follows:
Data set A: {38, 30, 35, 41, 37}
Data set B: {23, 19, 14, 16, 21, 27}
By how much is the median of data set A greater than the median of data set B?
(A) 20 (B) 18 (C) 17 (D) 16
25. In the list of numbers; 6, x, 10, 2, 7, 13 and 15, the median is 10. Which of the following could NOT be
the value of x?
(A) 18 (B) 14 (C) 10 (D) 9
26. The average wages of a worker during a fortnight comprising 15 consecutive working days was $120
per day. During the first 7 days, his average wages was $115 per day and the average wages during the
last 7 days was $125 per day. What was his wage on the 8th day?
(A) $115 (B) $118 (C) $120 (D) $125
27. The mean, median, mode and range are calculated for the list of numbers: 11, 17, 17, 20 and 25.If the
number 2 is added to the list, which of the following will remain the same?
(A) Mean and Median (B) Median and Mode (C) Mode and Range (D) Mean and Range
28. During a summer season, the average temperature on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was 39°C.
The average temperature on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday was 36°C. If the temperature on
Thursday was 32°C, what was the temperature on Monday?
(A) 35°C (B) 37°C (C) 39°C (D) 41°C
29. Set X contains twelve elements whose sum is zero. Which of the following statements must be true?
I. The mean of the elements in set X is zero
II. The median of the elements in set X is zero
III. The mode of the elements in set X is zero
(A) All (B) I only (C) I and II only (D) II and III only
30. The scores by different students in a SAT Mock Test are divided into Group A and Group B. Both
groups are given the same test. The mean score in Group A is greater than that in Group B, but the
standard deviation of scores in Group A is less than that in Group B. Which of the following must be
true?
(A) The range of scores in Group A is equal to the range of scores in Group B.
(B) The median score in Group A is greater than the median score in Group B.
(C) The scores are more closely grouped about the mean in Group A than in Group B.
(D) The highest score in Group A is greater than the highest score in Group B.

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Grid-Ins Type Questions
31. If the average of seven numbers is 8 but when ‘n’ is added to it then the average of those 8 numbers
will be 9. What is the value of ‘n’?

32. If the average of ‘p’ and ‘q’ is ‘r’, and the average of ‘r’ and ‘p’ is ‘t’, what is the value of (q-r)/(r-t) ?

33. Twelve students are competing in a running competition. The students are scored on a 1-10 scale. The
average score of the twelve students is 7.6. If the lowest scoring student is disqualified, the average
score of the remaining eleven students increases to 7.9. What was the lowest-scoring student’s score?

34. If the mean of the data set {7, a , 13, 15, 19, b , 37} is 15, what is the value of a + b ?

35. The mean lap time of sixteen motorcycle riders in a race was 160 seconds. If the fastest average lap
time is removed, the mean lap time of the remaining fifteen racers becomes 163 seconds. What was
the fastest lap time, in seconds?

36. Two basketball teams, the City Umber and the City Harrot, are competing in the playoffs. The City
Harrot have 12 players and their average points per player is 13. The City Umber have 11 players and
their average points per player is 14. What are the average points per player for both teams
combined?

37. A new computer game receives critical reviews between 0 and 100, inclusive. In the first 12 ratings,
the average of the ratings was 82. What is the least value the game can receive for the 17th rating and
still be able to have an average of at least 85 for the first 20 ratings?

38. The average (arithmetic mean) age of the people in a certain group was 27 years before one of the
members left the group and was replaced by someone who is 6 years older than the person who left.
If the average age of the group is now 29 years, how many people are in the group?

39. The median of 2, 6, 11, and m is 7. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of these four numbers?

40. The “range” of a set of data is defined as the absolute difference between the least value and the
greatest value in the set. If seven non negative distinct integers have an average (arithmetic mean) of
12, what is the greatest possible “range” of this set?