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Physics

1. Mentioned two different units to measure the mass of an object.


2. If the mass of an object is 2kg, and its volume is 1 𝑚3 , what is its density?
3. What is mass?
4. What is volume?
5. If a car moved 50 meters, for 5 seconds, what was its average speed? (10 m/s)
6. What are the units of acceleration?
7. What is the approximate value of the gravitational acceleration near Earth’s
surface?
8. If a person weights 700 N, what is his mass?
9. What is wrong with the following statement “A bag of sugar weights 1 kg”?
10. Explain Newton’s third law of motion.
11. What is momentum? Formula and units.
12. Which of the following quantities are vectors? Energy, Momentum, Speed,
Temperature, Acceleration.
13. What is pressure? Formula and units.
14. A 4 kg object is moving with a speed of 2 m/s. What is its momentum?
15. What is work? Formula and units.
16. What is power?
17. Write down the formula for power, using force and speed.
18. What are the two types of mechanical energies?
19. What is the energy an object has due to its position/location called?
20. If the energy input of an engine is 100 J and the output is 15 J, what its efficiency
expressed in percentage?
21. Which of the following is a scalar quantity?
Velocity, Mass, Force, Acceleration

22. A car is traveling at a constant speed in a straight line. What is its acceleration?
23. If an object is dropped from rest, what is its initial velocity?
24. . Newton's first law of motion is also known as the law of:
a. Inertia
b. Gravitation
c. Action and reaction
d. Universal attraction

25. Which of Newton's laws states that "for every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction"?
26. According to Newton's second law of motion, what is the relationship between
force, mass, and acceleration?
27. Which two physical quantities affect the gravitational force between two objects?
28. If the distance between two objects is doubled, how does the gravitational force
between them change?
29. What is the energy an object has due to its motion called?
30. What is the formula for kinetic energy (KE)?
31. What is the ratio of useful energy output to total energy input in a machine called?
32. A machine does 200 J of work in 2 seconds. What is its power?
33. A force of 2 N, is moving an object at a speed of 2 m/s. What is the power?
34. When do you apply more pressure on the ground, when you stand on both feet, or
when you stand on one foot?
35. Which process occurs when a substance goes from a gas to a liquid?
36. . In which phase of matter do particles have the most kinetic energy?

Probability

1. What are mutually exclusive events?


2. From a standard deck of cards, find the probability of picking a queen or an even
number.
3. What is probability?
4. John has a bag of marbles. In the bag, there are 4 yellow marbles, 7 red marbles,
and 3 green marbles. What is the probability that John will pull out a yellow
marble?
5. When a die is rolled, what is the probability of not getting an odd number?
6. You draw a card from a standard set of cards. What is the probability that your
card is NOT an ace?
7. A die is rolled. What is the probability of not rolling a 5?
8. What is the probability of an event that is certain to occur?
9. If the probability of an event is 0.3, what is the probability of it not to happen?
10. You have a deck of 52 cards. What is the probability of drawing a black card?
11. If the probability of event A is 0.4 and the probability of event B is 0.3, what is the
probability of both events A and B occurring if they are independent?
12. You have two coins, one fair and one biased to land on heads. If you choose one
coin randomly, what is the probability of getting two heads?
13.

Trigonometry

1. In a right triangle, which trigonometric function is defined as the opposite site


divided by adjacent?
2. At what angle value (in degrees) in a full circle, the cosine takes its minimum
value?
3. In a right triangle, what is the side opposite the right angle called?
4. What is the value of the sine of a 30-degree angle in a right triangle?
5. What is the definition of the sine (sin) of an angle in a right triangle?
6. What is the relationship between the three primary trigonometric functions (sin,
cos, tan) in a right triangle?
7. At what angle does the sine function have a value of 1?
8. What is the value of cos(π)?
9. At which angles does the cosine function equal zero?
10. Given a right triangle with an angle θ, if the opposite side is 5 units and the
hypotenuse is 13 units, what is the value of sin(θ)?
11. Calculate tan(θ) for a right triangle with an opposite side of 6 units and an
adjacent side of 8 units.
12. What is the sum of the squares of sine and cosine equal to?

Data Analysis

1. In a dataset, what do we call the most frequent datapoint?


2. In data analysis, what do we call the difference between the largest and the
smallest value?
3. Explain how to find the median in a dataset?
4. What is the mean (average) of the following data set: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12?
5. What is the mean of the test scores: 85, 92, 78, 90, 88?
6. What is the mean of the ages of five friends: 20, 22, 24, 18, 21?
7. What is the median of the set: 7, 3, 9, 2, 8?
8. Find the median of these five temperatures in degrees Celsius: 16, 14, 17, 13, 19.
9. What is the median of the ages of the five employees: 35, 28, 40, 32, 27?
10. What is the mode of the data set: 5, 2, 3, 7, 5?
11. Find the mode of the following colors of cars in a parking lot: red, blue, black, red,
white.
12. What is the mode of the favorite fruits of five children: apple, banana, apple,
orange, banana?
13. What is the range of the numbers: 12, 18, 7, 23, 15?
14. Calculate the range of the scores on a math quiz: 88, 92, 75, 60, 96.
15. Determine the range of the heights (in inches) of five students: 58, 62, 66, 54, 70.

Combinatorics

1. How many ways can you arrange the letters in the word "COMBINATORICS"?
- Answer: 13! (Factorial)

2. You have 5 different books, and you want to choose 2 to read. How many different pairs
of books can you select?
- Answer: 10 (Number of ways to choose 2 out of 5 books)

3. In how many ways can you choose a committee of 3 members from a group of 10
people?
- Answer: 120 (Number of ways to choose 3 out of 10 people)

4. How many different 3-letter combinations can be formed from the alphabet (26 letters)
without repetition?
- Answer: 26 * 25 * 24 (26 choices for the first letter, 25 for the second, and 24 for the
third)
5. A box contains 5 red balls, 3 green balls, and 2 blue balls. How many ways can you
choose 2 balls of different colors?
- Answer: 30 (5 ways to choose 1 red, and 3 ways to choose 1 green)

6. How many different seating arrangements are possible for 5 people in a row of chairs?
- Answer: 120 (5!)

7. In a chess game, how many possible first moves can White make?
- Answer: 20 (16 pawn moves and 4 knight moves)

8. You have 8 different vegetables, and you want to make a salad with 3 of them. How
many different salads can you create?
- Answer: 56 (Number of combinations of 3 out of 8)

9. A lock has 4 digits, each between 0 and 9. How many possible combinations are there?
- Answer: 10,000 (10^4)

10. In a tournament, there are 12 teams. How many different pairings (matches) can be
created in the first round?
- Answer: 66 (12 choose 2)

11. How many ways can you arrange the numbers 1 to 10 in a line?
- Answer: 3,628,800 (10!)

12. You have 5 different shirts and 3 different pairs of pants. How many unique outfits
can you create?
- Answer: 15 (5 shirts * 3 pants)

13. A club has 20 members. How many different 4-member committees can be formed?
- Answer: 4845 (20 choose 4)

14. In how many ways can you arrange the letters of the word "ALGORITHM"?
- Answer: 9! (Factorial)
15. A restaurant offers a choice of 3 appetizers, 5 main courses, and 4 desserts. How many
different meals can be ordered?
- Answer: 60 (3 appetizers * 5 main courses * 4 desserts)

16. You have 6 different colors of paint, and you want to use 3 for a painting. How many
color combinations can you choose?
- Answer: 20 (6 choose 3)

17. How many different 4-letter words can be formed using the letters A, B, C, and D?
- Answer: 24 (4!)

18. You have 7 different math books and 6 different science books. How many ways can
you arrange them on a bookshelf?
- Answer: 13! (Factorial)

19. In a deck of cards, how many 5-card poker hands can be drawn?
- Answer: 2,598,960

20. A family has 3 children, and each can choose from 5 different flavors of ice cream.
How many possible ice cream orders are there?
- Answer: 125 (5^3)

21. How many different license plates can be created with 3 letters followed by 3 numbers
(no repetition)?
- Answer: 17,576,000

22. A committee of 5 people is to be formed from a group of 8 men and 5 women. How
many ways can the committee be chosen?
- Answer: 7,480 (13 choose 5)

23. How many distinct anagrams can be formed from the word "MISSISSIPPI"?
- Answer: 34650 (11 letters, with 4 repeated S's, 2 repeated I's, and 1 each of M and P)

24. In how many ways can you arrange the digits 0 through 9 in a 10-digit number without
repetition?
- Answer: 3,628,800 (10!)

25. You have 5 different fruit options for your fruit salad. How many different fruit salads
can you create with at least 2 different fruits?
- Answer: 26 (5 options + 10 options + 1 option)

26. In a quiz, there are 10 multiple-choice questions, each with 4 answer choices. How
many different answer keys are possible?
- Answer: 4^10 (4 choices for each of the 10 questions)

27. A password consists of 4 characters, with each character being a letter (a-z) or a digit
(0-9). How many unique passwords are possible?
- Answer: 36,288 (36 options for each of the 4 characters)

28. In a deck of cards, how many 5-card hands contain exactly 2 red cards and 3 black
cards?
- Answer: 216,816

29. A restaurant offers a buffet with 8 different types of sushi. How many ways can you
select a plate with 4 different pieces of sushi?
- Answer: 1,680 (Number of combinations of 4 out of 8)

30. In a coding challenge, you need to create a 6-character alphanumeric code using
uppercase letters and digits. How many codes are possible?
- Answer: 2,176,782,336 (36^6)

These questions cover various aspects of combinatorics,

including permutations, combinations, arrangements, and counting principles. Use them


for practice or assessment of combinatorics concepts.

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