Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges

College of Engineering and Technology

Civil Engineering Program
Engineering Data and Analysis

EXAMINATION: MIDTERM EXAMINATION

TO BE SUBMITTED ON: WED, 05/24/2023 8PM

INSTRUCTIONS:
In a clean paper, write your solutions and boxed your final answers. Hard copies must be submitted on Thursday until
12noon at the Engineering Office, however, you need to upload in the LMS first, no soft copy uploaded no Midterm
scores. You may opt to copy the problem or not.

1. A safety engineer claims that only 40% of all workers wear

safety helmets when they eat lunch at the workplace.
Assuming that his claim is right, find the probability that 4 of 6
workers randomly chosen will be wearing their helmets while
having lunch at the workplace.
2. When 100 coins are tossed, what is the probability that exactly
50 are heads?
3. SITUATION. A blindfolded marksman finds that on the
average he hits the target 3 times out of 5. If he fires 10 shots,
a. What is the probability of more than 6 hits?
b. What is the probability at least 3 misses?

4. SITUATION. Five cards are drawn one at a time from an

ordinary deck of 52 cards.
a. Find the probability that exactly two diamonds are drawn.
b. Find the probability that exactly three red cards are
drawn.
c. Find the probability that at least one face card is drawn.
5. The amount of time that a teenager plays videogames in any
given week is normally distributed. If a teenager plays
videogames an average of 15 hours per week with a standard
deviation of 3 hours, what is the probability of a teenager
playing videogames between 9 and 21 hours?
. 6. Compute the standard deviation of the normal distribution that
approximates a binomial distribution. There are 60 trials with a
probability of failure of 0.25.
. 7. When 100 coins are tossed, what is the probability that exactly
50 are heads?
8. A manufacturer estimates that 0.25% of his output of a
component are defective. The components are marketed in
packets of 200. Using Poisson’s distribution, determine the
probability of a packet containing only 2 defective
components.
9. There is an average of 2 suicides per year per 50, 000
population. In a city of 100, 000. Find the probability that in a
given year there is one suicide.
10. Suppose 1% of the items made by a machine are defective in
a sample of 100 items. Find the probability that 3 or more are
defective in a sample of 100 items.