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1. From 20 tickets marked with the first 20 numerals, one is drawn 16. The probability of getting a credit in an examination is 1/3. If
at a random. What is the chance that it will be a multiple of 3 or three students are selected in random. What is the probability
of 6? that at least one of them got a credit?
A. ½ C. 3/10 A. 19/27 C. 2/3
B. 8/15 D. 2/5 B. 8/27 D. 1/3
2. The probability that a married man watches a certain television 17. In a single throw of a single die, find the probability of
show is 0.4 and the probabilitythat a married woman watches obtaining either 3 or a 4 or an even number.
the show is 0.5. The probability that a man watches the show, A. 5/6 C. 2/3
given that his wife does is 0.70. Find the probability a wife B. ½ D. 1/6
watches the show given that her husband does. 18. Three dice are thrown simultaneously, what isthe probability
A. 0.35 C. 0.55 of getting 4 or 5 on each of thedice?
B. 0.875 D. 0.25 A. 1/27 C. 1/108
3. The standard deviation is the of the B. 1/36 D. 1/216
variance. 19. What is the sample standard deviation for thedata set (4, 6,
A. square C. reciprocal 9, 9)?
B. square root D. cube A. 2.1 C. 4.2
4. In a race for mayor, four candidates A, B, C and D have B. 2.4 D. 6.0
probabilities of 0.15, 0.16, 0.24 and 0.42 of winning 20. In a multiple-choice test, each question is to be answered by
respectively. What is the probability thatA, B, C or D will win? selecting 1 out of 5 choices, of which only 1 is right. If there are
A. 97% C. 83% 10 questions in a test, what is the probability of getting 6 right of
B. 100% D. 53.3% pure guesswork?
5. In a throw of two dice, the probability of obtaining a total of 10 A. 10% C. 0.44%
or 12 is B. 6% D. 0.55%
A. 1/6 C. 1/12 21. A study has a sample size of 9, a standard deviation of 4.0, and
B. 1/9 D. 1/18 a sample standard deviation of 4.2. What is most nearly the
6. Determine the probability of drawing either a king or a diamond samplevariance?
in a single draw from a pack of 52 playing cards. A. 16 C. 34
A. 2/13 C. 4/13 B. 18 D. 36
B. 3/13 D. 1/13 22. A fair coin is tossed three times. What is the probability of getting
7. Four fair coins are tossed at once. What is the probability of either 3 heads or 3 tails?
obtaining three heads and onetail? A. 1/8 C. ¼
A. ¼ C. ½ B. 3/8 D. ½
B. 3/8 D. ¾ 23. The probability of getting at least 2 heads whena fair coin is
8. Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the sum tossed four times is:
shown on the dice is divisible by 5? A. 11/16 C. ¼
A. 7/36 C. 1/9 B. 13/16 D. 3/8
B. 1/12 D. ¼ 24. The probability that both stages of a two-stage rocket will
9. There are 10 defectives per 1,000 items of a product in the long function correctly is 0.95. The reliability of the first stage is
run. What is the probability that there is one and only one 0.98. What is the reliability of the second stage?
defective in a random lot of 100? A. 0.95 C. 0.97
A. 99 x 0.0199 C. 0.99100 B. 0.96 D. 0.98
B. 0.01 D. 0.9999 25. The odds against the student A solving problem are 3:2 and the
10. The probability that a patient recovers from a certain disease is odds in favor of a student B solving the problem are 2:1. What
½. If 5 people are affected with the disease, what is the is the probability that the problem will be solved?
probability that at least 3 of them recover? A. 2/13 C. 4/15
A. ½ C. ¼ B. 3/7 D. 5/6
B. 1/3 D. 1/5 26. In a dice game, one fair die is used. The player wins P20.00 if he
11. From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white balls, two balls rolls either 1 or 6. He losses P10.00 if he turns up any other face.
are drawn one at a time. Find theprobability that both balls are What is the expected winning for one roll of the die?
black. Assume thatthe 1st ball is returned before the second ball A. 40.00 C. 20.00
is drawn.
B. 0.0 D. 10.00
A. 4/9 C. 1/6 27. What is the standard deviation of the set of numbers 2, 9, 11 and
B. 16/81 D. 5/9 22?
12. Given n = 5 measurements: 2, 1, 1, 3, 5. Calculate the sample
A. 20 C. 7.176
variance (s2).
B. 11 D. 6.177
A. 1.6 C. 2.4
B. 3 D. 2.8 28. Three light bulbs are chosen from 15 bulbs of which 10 are
13. An urn contains 3 white balls and 1 black ball. Determine the defective. What is the probability that none is defective?
probability of drawing two whiteballs in succession from the A. 24/91 C. 45/91
urn without replacing the ball after each drawing. B. 12/15 D. 67/91
A. ½ C. ¼ 29. A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probabilityof getting 3 tails
B. 2/3 D. 3/2 up?
14. There are 7 persons to be seated in a row. What is the A. 1/8 C. ¼
probability that two particular persons are to sit next to each B. 1/16 D. 7/8
other? 30. A pair of fair dice is thrown independently threetimes. What is
A. 5/7 C. 4/7 the probability of getting a score exactly 9 twice?
B. 2/7 D. 5/7 A. ½ C. 8/243
15. A bag containing 3 white and 5 black balls. If two balls are drawn B. 1/9 D. 8/81
in succession without replacement, what is the probability that 31. A worker attends three machines each of which operates
both balls are black? independently of the other two. The probability of the events
A. 5/28 C. 5/32 that the machine will not require the operator’s intervention
B. 5/16 D. 5/14 during the shift are equal to 0.50, 0.30 and 0.20 respectively.
What is the probability that at leastone machine will require the
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worker’s attention during the shift? B. 0.3245 D. 0.9976
A. 0.87 C. 0.97
47. Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the sum
B. 0.84 D. 0.94
32. From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white balls, two balls shown on the dice is divisible by 5?
are drawn at a time. Find the probability that one ball is white A. 7/36 C. 1/12
and the other ball is black considering that the first ball is B. 1/9 D. ¼
returned before the second draw. 48. A study gives the following results for a totalsample size of
A. 40/81 C. 5/32 12.
B. 5/23 D. 3/24 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 8, 8, 10, 11, 15, 18, 20
33. What is the probability that a number selected atrandom from What is most nearly the mean?
the set of number (1, 2, 3, …, 99, 100) is a cube? A. 8.9 C. 11
A. 1/25 C. 3/25 B. 9.5 D. 12
B. 2/25 D. 4/25 49. If two dice are tossed, find the probability ofrolling a sum of
34. Given the following statistical data, determine the standard either 7 or 9.
deviation: (112, 132, 144, 156, 164,176, 183, 197) A. 29% C. 25%
A. 26.22 C. 28.84 B. 32% D. 27%
B. 27.53 D. 30.15 50. A provincial chapter of PSME held a lottery to raise funds for
35. A problem in mathematics is given to 3 studentswhose chances their organization, with P10,000 top prize, and with 2000 tickets
of solving it individually are ½, 1/3, and 1/4. What is the printed and sold. What is the mathematical expectation of a
probability that the problem will be solves by at least one of member if he bought 10 tickets?
them? A. P 50 C. P 150
A. ¼ C. 1/6 B. P 100 D. P 125
B. ¾ D. ½ 51. Find the probability that a couple having 3children will have
36. In a deck of 52 playing cards, 2 cards are drawn at random. at least one girl.
What is the probability of getting anace and a king? A. 7/8 C. ¾
A. 4/384 C. 8/663 B. ½ D. 5/8
B. 5/385 D. 7/663 52. A fair coin is tossed 5 times. What is theprobability of
37. In a deck of 52 playing cards, 2 cards are drawn at random. getting at least one tail?
What is the probability of getting twokings? A. 0.64 C. 0.58
A. 1/221 C. 2/221 B. 0.97 D. 0.86
B. 2/663 D. 1/348 53. What is the range of the set of numbers 2, 4, 4,5, 7, 8?
38. There are 3 bins containing integrated circuits. One bin has 2 A. 6 C. 4
premium IC’s, one has 2 regular IC’s and one has 1 premium IC B. 8 D. 7
and 1 regular IC. You choose an IC at random without looking 54. The NATO forces in Syria uses a type of missile that hits the
into any of the bins. The chosen IC is found to be premium IC. target with a probability of 0.3. How many missiles should be
What is the probability that the remaining IC in that bin is also fired so that thereis at least an 80% probability of hitting the
a premium IC? target?
A. 1/5 C. 2/3
A. 2 C. 5
B. ¼ D. ½
39. What is the standard deviation of 1, 4, and 7? B. 4 D. 3
A. 3.8 C. 4.5 55. If the probability that a missile will hit the target is 3/5, find the
B. 5.2 D. 2.45 probability of exactly 4 hits out of6 tries.
40. Find the median of the set of numbers: 2, 8, 33,2 and 20. A. 0.354 C. 0.422
A. 8 C. 33 B. 0.311 D. 0.402
B. 2 D. 20 56. In a shooting game, the probabilities that Rogerand Joel will hit
41. A coin is tossed 10 times. What is the probability of a target are 2/3 and ¾ respectively. What is the probability that
getting head exactly 6 times? the target is hit when both shoot at it?
A. 0.4042 C. 0.354 A. ½ C. 11/12
B. 0.2073 D. 0.2051 B. 1/6 D. 5/12
42. A bag contains 4 red balls, 3 green balls, and 5 blue balls. The 57. What is the probability that either exactly two heads or exactly
probability of not getting a redball in the first draw is: three heads will be thrown if sixfair coms are tossed at once?
A. 0.35 C. 0.59
A. 2 C. 1
B. 0.55 D. 0.63
B. 2/3 D. 1/3
58. The probability that a doctor correctly diagnoses a particular
43. A cat has litter of seven kittens. If the probability is 0.52 that a
illness is 0.70. Given that the doctor makes and incorrect
kitten will be female, what is the probability that exactly two of
diagnosis, the probability that the patient enters a law suit is
the seven will be male?
0.90. What isthe probability that the doctor makes an incorrect
A. 0.18 C. 0.32
diagnosis and the patient sues?
B. 0.23 D. 0.15
A. 0.34 C. 0.43
44. A bag contains 100 balls numbered 1 to 100. What is the
B. 0.45 D. 0.27
probability that the number on the ball selected will be odd or
59. If three sticks are drawn from 5 sticks whose lengths are 1, 2, 3,
greater than 80?
4, & 5 cm. What is the probability that the three sticks are drawn
A. 0.10 C. 0.60
form a triangle?
B. 0.50 D. 0.70
A. 0.30 C. 0.70
45. Roll two dice once. What is the probability that the sum is 7?
B. 0.50 D. 0.80
A. 1/6 C. ¼
60. A study has a sample size of 5, a standard deviation of 10.4, and
B. 1/8 D. 1/7
a sample standard deviation of 11.6. What is most nearly the
46. An anti-aircraft gun can take a minimum of four at any plane
variance?
moving away from it. The probabilities of hitting the enemy
A. 46 C. 110
plane at 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th shots are 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1
B. 52 D. 130
respectively. What is the probability that at leastone shot hits
the plane?
A. 0.0053 C. 0.6976
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61. An urn contains 4 black balls and 6 white balls. What is the he owns 5 tickets?
probability of getting 1 black ball and 1 white ball in two A. 50% C. 20%
consecutive draws from the urn? B. 25% D. 40%
A. 0.04 C. 0.53 76. The number 1 followed by 100 zeros or 10100 iscalled
B. 0.27 D. 0.04 A. myriad C. google
62. Two cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52 B. petallion D. centennial numbers
cards. Find the probability P that one is a spade and one is a 77. An electronic chip factory can have 5 defective chips for every
heart. 100 it produces. If five chips are selected at random, what is
A. 3/51 C. 13/102 the probability of getting at least one defective?
B. 1/26 D. 2/51
A. 0.22621 C. 0.2304
63. A speaks the truth in 80% cases, B is 75% cases. In what
B. 0.7543 D. 0.2154
percentage of cases are they likely to contradict each other in
78. A group of three people enter a theater after the lights head
stating the same fact?
dimed. They are shown to the correctgroup of 3 seats by the
A. 25% C. 45% usher. Each person holdsa number stub. What is the probability
B. 35% D. 65% that eachis in the correct seat and stub?
64. What is the probability that a player will make exactly 3 of his
A. 1/6 C. 1/8
next 4 shots if he sunk 50% of allhis shots?
B. ¼ D. ½
A. 0.25 C. 0.0625 79. If two events A and B are mutually exclusive events and the
B. 0.125 D. 0.75 probability that A will happen is Pa and the probability that B
65. How many triangles are determined by thevertices of a regular will happen is Pb, then the probability that A or B happen is
hexagon?
A. Pa + Pb C. Pa / Pb
A. 10 C. 20
B. 15 D. 25 B. Pa x Pb D. Pb / Pa
66. Set A consists of elements (1, 3, 6), and set B consists of 80. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 playing cards. Find the
elements (1, 2, 6, 7). Both sets come from the universe of (1, 2, probability of drawing a king or a red card.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). What is the intersection, Ᾱ∩B? A. 0.5835 C. 0.3585
B. 0.5385 D. 0.8535
A. (2, 7) C. (2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
81. In the ME Board Examinations, the probability that an
B. (2, 3, 7) D. (4, 5, 8)
examinee will pass in each subject is 0.80.What is the probability
67. The proportions of blood phenotypes A, B, AB and O in the
that an examinee will pass at least 2 subjects?
population of all Caucasians in the US are reported as 0.41,
0.10, 0.04 and 0.45, respectively. If a Caucasian is chosen A. 0.962 C. 0.576
randomly from the population, what is the probability thathe B. 0.828 D. 0.896
or she will have either type A or type AB blood? 82. What is the probability of obtaining a poker hand (5 cards)
containing 2 aces?
A. 0.43 C. 0.55
A. 0.04 C. 0.08
B. 0.51 D. 0.45
68. The probability that A hits the target is 1/3 and the probability B. 0.14 D. 0.24
that B hits the target is 1/5. Theyboth fire at the target. Find 83. Find the mean of the following scores 8, 10, 9,6, 4, 7, 5, 8.
the probability that one of them hits the target. A. 7.125 C. 3.456
B. 8.345 D. 9.316
A. 1/3 C. 8/15
84. Eugene applied for the University of Hongkong and the Chinese
B. 7/15 D. 2/5
University of Hongkong. The probability that he will be admitted
69. If seven coins are tossed simultaneously, find theprobability that
to the University of Hongkong is 2/5. The probability that he will
they will just have three heads.
be admitted to the Chinese University of Hongkong is 3/4. Find
A. 33/128 C. 35/128
the probability that he will be admitted to at least one of the two
B. 30/129 D. 37/129
universities.
70. If seven coins are tossed simultaneously, find theprobability that
A. 17/20 C. 11/20
there will be at least six tails.
B. 3/20 D. 3/10
A. 2/128 C. 3/128
85. A student taking a true-false test consisting of 15 questions
B. 1/16 D. 2/16
guesses at the answer. Assuming that he is equally likely to
71. If two dice are tossed, what is the probability ofrolling a sum of
make a correct or incorrect guess on each question, find the
6 or 9?
probability that all of his answers will be right.
A. ¼ C. 2/3
A. 1/32768 C. 3/32768
B. ¾ D. 3/8
B. 5/32768 D. 5/32768
72. A real estate agent has 8 master keys to open several homes.
86. A number between 1 and 1000 (inclusive) is randomly selected.
Only 1 master key will open anygiven house. If 40% of these
What is the probability that it will be divisible by 4 and 5?
homes are usually left unlocked, what is the probability that
A. 0.05 C. 0.075
the real estate agent can get into a specific home if the agent
B. 0.025 D. 0.010
selects 3 master keys at random before leaving the office?
87. A study gives the following results for a total sample size of
A. 3/10 C. 5/8
6.
B. 2/7 D. 1/9
10, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15
73. In a family of four children, what is the probability of having a
The mean of the sample is 13. What is mostnearly the
set of three and one (i.e. three sons and a daughter or three
sample standard deviation?
daughters and a son)?
A. 0.85 C. 1.6
A. ¾ C. ¼
B. ½ D. 5/8 B. 0.90 D. 1.8
74. The Arithmetic mean of 6 numbers is 7. If two numbers are 88. If 15 people won prizes in the state lottery, in how many ways
can these 15 people win first, second, third, fourth, and fifth
added to the progression, the new set of numbers will have an
prizes?
arithmetic mean of 19. What are the two numbers if their
A. 4, 845 C. 360, 360
differenceis 4?
B. 116, 280 D. 3, 003
A. 21, 29 C. 24, 26
89. From a bag containing 6 red balls, 8 white balls and 10 blue balls,
B. 23, 27 D. 22, 28
one ball is drawn at random. Determine the probability that is
75. There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which there is a first and
red or white.
second prize. What is the probability of a man drawing a prize if
A. 7/12 C. 1/5
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B. ¾ D. 1/3
90. The probability of getting at least 2 heads whena fair coin is
tossed four times is:
A. 11/16 C. ¼
B. 13/16 D. 3/8
91. A basketball player sinks 50% of all his attempts. What is the
probability that he will make exactly3 of his next 10 attempts?
A. 1/256 C. 30/128
B. 3/8 D. 15/128
92. What is the probability of throwing seven or a ten with two
dice?
A. ½ C. 1/7
B. ¼ D. 1/10
93. What is the mode of the set of numbers: 2, 2, 8,20, 33?
A. 2 C. 20
B. 8 D. 33
94. If the probability that the average freshman will not complete 5
years of an engineering course is2/5, what is the probability that
4 freshmen at least 3 will complete the 5-year course?
A. 0.432 C. 0.467
B. 0.475 D. 0.442
95. What are the arithmetic mean and samplestandard deviation
of the following numbers? 71.3, 74.0, 74.25, 78.54, 80.6
A. 74.3, 2.7 C. 75.0, 2.7
B. 74.3, 3.7 D. 75.7, 3.8
96. A coin is tossed three times. What is theprobability of
getting three heads?
A. 1/8 C. ½
B. 5/32 D. 3/2
97. Two people are chosen randomly from 4 married couple. What
is the probability that they are husband and wife?
A. ¼ C. 1/16
B. 1/8 D. 1/7
98. In a dice game, one fair die is used. The player wins Php 10 if he
rolls either a 1 or a 6. He loses Php 5 if he turns up any other
face. What is the expected winning for one roll of the die?
A. Php 0 C. Php 5.00
B. Php 3.33 D. Php 6.67
99. There are 3 questions in a test. For each 1 point is awarded for a
correct answer and none for a wrong answer. If the probability
that Janine correctly answers a question in the test is 2/3,
determine the probability that she gets zero in a test?
A. 8/27 C. 1/30
B. 4/9 D. 1/27
100. An item’s cost distribution is given as a function of the
probability. What is the expected cost?

Cost (Php) Probability

1 0.07
2 0.23
3 0.46
4 0.17
5 0.04
6 0.03

A. Php 2.5 C. Php 3.0

B. Php 2.9 D. Php 3.1