MATH 04 MOCK-UP QUIZ No. 1.

1.) The probability for the ECE board examinees from a certain school to pass the subject Mathematics is
3/7 and for the subject Communications is 5/7. If none of the examinees fails both subject and there are
4 examinees who pass both subjects, find the number of examinees from that school who took the
examinations.
2.) How many four-letter words beginning and ending with a vowel without any letter repeated can be
formed from the word “personnel”?
3.) Five different Mathematics books, 4 different electronics books and 2 different communications books are
to be placed in a shelf with the books of the same subject together. Find the number of ways in which
the books can be placed.
4.) The number of ways can 3 nurses and 4 engineers be seated on a bench with the nurses seated together
is?
5.) If 15 people won prizes in the state lottery (assuming that there are no ties), how many ways can these
15 people win first, second, third, fourth and fifth prizes?
6.) How many 4-digit numbers can be formed without repeating any digit from the following digits: 1, 2, 3,
4 and 6?
7.) How many permutations are there if the letters PNRCSE are taken six at a time?
8.) In how many ways can 6 distinct books be arranged in a bookshelf?
9.) What is the number of permutations of the letters in the word BANANA?
10.) A PSME unit has 10 ME’s, 8 PME’s and 6 CPM’s. If a committee of 3 members, one from each group is
to be formed, how many such committees can be formed?
11.) In how many ways can a PSME Chapter with 15 directors choose a President, a Vice President, a
Secretary, a Treasurer and an Auditor, if no member can hold more than one position?
12.) Four different colored flags can be hung in a row to make coded signal. How many signals can be made
if a signal consists of the display of one or more flags?
13.) In how many ways can 4 boys and 4 girls be seated alternately in a row of 8 seats?
14.) There are four balls of four different colors. Two balls are taken at a time and arranged in a definite
order. For example, if a white and red balls are taken, one definite arrangement is white first, red second,
and another arrangement is red first, white second. How many such arrangements are possible?
15.) How many different ways can 5 boys and 5 girls form a circle with boys and girls alternate?
16.) There are four balls of different colors. Two balls at a time are taken and arranged any way. How many
such combinations are possible?
17.) How many 6-number combinations can be generated from the numbers from 1 to 42 inclusive, without
repetition and with no regards to the order of the numbers?
18.) Find the total number of combinations of three letters, J, R, T taken 1, 2, 3 at a time.
19.) In how many ways can you invite one or more of your five friends in a party?
20.) In how many ways can a committee of three consisting of two chemical engineers and one mechanical
engineer can be formed from four chemical engineers and three mechanical engineers?
21.) In Mathematics examination, a student may select 7 problems from a set of 10 problems. In how many
ways can he make his choice?
22.) How many committees can be formed by choosing 4 men from an organization of a membership of 15
men?
23.) A semiconductor company will hire 7 men and 4 women. In how many ways can the company choose
from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the position?
24.) There are 13 teams in a tournament. Each team is to play with each other only once. What is the
minimum number of days can they all play without any team playing more than one game in any day?
25.) There are five main roads between the cities A and B, and four between B and C. In how many ways
can a person drive from A to C and return, going through B on both trips without driving on the same
road twice?
26.) There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which there is a first and second prize. What is the probability of a
man drawing a prize if he owns 5 tickets?
27.) Roll a pair of dice. What is the probability that the sum of two numbers is 11?
28.) Roll two dice once. What is the probability that the sum is 7?
29.) In a throw of two dice, the probability of obtaining a total of 10 or 12 is?
30.) Determine the probability of drawing either a king or a diamond in a single draw from a pack of 52
playing cards
31.) A card is drawn from a deck of 52 playing cards, Find the probability if drawing a king or a red card.
32.) A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability of getting 3 tails up?
33.) The probability of getting at least 2 heads when a coin is tossed four times is?
34.) A fair coin is tossed three times. What is the probability of getting either 3 heads or 3 tail?
35.) The probability of getting a credit in an examination is 1/3. If three students are selected at random,
what is the probability that at least one of them got a credit?
36.) There are 3 questions in a test. For each question 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 the test.
37.) In the ECE Board Examinations, the probability that an examinee will pass each subject is 0.8. What is
the probability that an examinee will pass at least two subjects out of three board subjects?
38.) In a multiple choice test, each question is to be answered by selecting 1 out of 5 choices of which only
1 is right, If there are 10 questions in a test, what is the probability of getting 6 right of pure guesswork?
39.) From a box containing 6 red balls, 8 white balls and 10 blue balls, one ball is drawn at random. Determine
the probability that is red or white.
40.) From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white balls, two balls are drawn one at a time. Find the
probability that both balls are white. Assume that the first ball is returned before the second ball is drawn.
41.) A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls. If two balls are drawn in succession without replacement,
what is the probability that both balls are black?
42.) An urn contains 4 black balls and 6 white balls. What is the probability of getting 1 black and 1 white
ball in two consecutive draws from the urn?
43.) From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white balls, two balls are drawn one at a time. Find the
probability that one ball is white, and one ball is black. Assume that the first ball is returned before the
second ball is drawn.
44.) A group of 3 people enter a theatre after the lights had dimmed. They are shown to the correct group
of 3 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?
45.) From 20 tickets marked with the first 20 numerals, one is drawn at random. What is the chance that it
will be a multiple of 3 or of 7?
46.) How many numbers are there between 99 and 1000, having at least one of their digits 7?
47.) How many 5-digit telephone numbers can be constructed using the digits 0 to 9, if each number starts
with 67 and no digit appears more than once?
48.) Find the number of permutations of the letters of the word ALLAHABAD.
49.) In how many of the distinct permutations of the letters in MISSISSIPPI do the four Is not come together?
50.) In a small village, there are 87 families, of which 52 families have at most 2 children. In a rural
development programme, 20 families are to be chosen for assistance, of which at least 18 families must
have at most 2 children. In how many ways can the choice be made?
51.) A committee of 3 persons is to be constituted from a group of 2 men and 3 women. In how many ways
can this be done? How many of these committees would consist of 1 man and 2 women?
52.) Determine the number of 5 card combinations out of a deck of 52 cards, if there is exactly one ace in
each combination.
 Answer Key Quiz N0. 1.1 (1-45):

1.) 28 29.) 1/9

2.) 40 30.) 4/13
3.) 34560 31.) 0.5385
4.) 720 32.) 1/8
5.) 360,360 33.) 11/16
6.) 120 34.) 1/4
7.) 720 35.) 19/27
8.) 720 36.) 1/27
9.) 60 37.) 89.6%
10.) 480 38.) 0.55%
11.) 360,360 39.) 7/12
12.) 64 40.) 25/81
13.) 1152 41.) 5/14
14.) 12 42.) 0.53
15.) 2,880 43.) 40/81
16.) 6 44.) 1/6
17.) 5,245,786 45.) 2/5
18.) 7 46.) 252
19.) 31 47.) 366
20.) 18 48.) 7560
21.) 120 49.) 33810
22.) 1365 50.) 52C18 × 35C2 + 52C19 × 35C1 + 52C20
23.) 540 51.) 10, 6
24.) 13 52.) 778320
25.) 240
26.) 20%
27.) 1/18
28.) 1/6
 MATH 04 MOCK-UP QUIZ No. 1.2

1.) How permutation can be made out of the letters in the world island taking four letters at a time?
2.) How many 4 digit number can be formed without repeating any digit, from the following digit 1,2,3,4
and 6.
3.) How many permutations can made out of the letters of the word ENGINEERING?
4.) How many ways can 3 men and 4 women be seated on a bench if the women to be together?
5.) In how many ways can 5 people line up to pay their electric bills?
6.) In how many ways can 5 people line up to pay their electric bills, if two particular persons refuse to
follow each other?
7.) How many ways can 7 people be seated at a round table?
8.) In how many relative orders can we seat 7 people at a round table with a certain people side by side.
9.) In how many ways can we seat 7 people in a round table with a certain 3 people not in consecutive
order?
10.) The captain of a baseball team assigns himself to the 4th place in the batting order. In how many
ways can he assign the remaining places to his eight teammates if just three men are eligible for the
first position?
11.) In how many ways can PICE chapter with 15 directors choose a president, a vice-president, a
secretary, a treasurer, and an auditor, if no member can hold more than one position?
12.) How many ways can a committee of five be selected from an organization with 35 members?
13.) How many line segments can be formed by 13 distinct point?
14.) In how many ways can a hostess select six luncheon guests from 10 women if she is to avoid having
particular two of them together at the luncheon?
15.) A semiconductor company will hire 7 men and 4 women. In how many ways can the company choose
from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the position?
16.) How many ways can you invite one or more of five friends to a party?
17.) A bag contains 4 red balls, 3 green balls, and 5 blue balls. The probability of not getting a red ball in
the first draw is:
18.) Which of the following cannot be a probability? 1, 0, 1/e, 0.434343
19.) A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls. If two balls are drawn in succession without replacement,
what is the probability that both balls are black?
20.) A bag contains 3 white and 5 red balls. If two balls are drawn at random, find the probability that both
are white.
21.) In problem 70, find the probability that one ball is white and the other is red.
22.) In the problem 70, find the probability that all are of the same color.
23.) The probability that both stages of a two-stage rocket to function correctly is 0.92. The reliability of
the first stage is 0.97. The reliability of the second stage is:
24.) Ricky and George each throw dice. If Ricky gets a sum of four what is the probability that George will
get less than of four?
25.) Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the sum of the dice is divisible by 5?
26.) An urn contains 4 black balls and 6 white balls. What is the probability of getting one black ball and
white ball in two consecutive draws from the urn?
27.) If three balls in drawn in succession from 5 white and a second bag, find the probability that all are of
one color, if the first ball is replaced immediately while the second is not replaced before the third
draw.
28.) A first bag contains 5 white balls and 10 black balls. The experiment consists of selecting a bag and
then drawing a ball from the selected bag. Find the probability of drawing a white ball.
29.) In problem 28, find the probability of drawing a white ball from the first bag.
30.) If seven coins are tossed simultaneously, find the probability that will just have three heads.
31.) If seven coins are tossed simultaneously, find the probability that there will be at least six tails.
32.) A face of a coin is either head or tail. If three coins are tossed, what is are the probability of getting
three tails?
33.) The face of a coin is either head or tail. If three coins are tossed, what is the probability of getting
three tails or three heads?
34.) Five fair coins were tossed simultaneously. What is the probability of getting three heads and two
tails?
35.) Throw a fair coin five times. What is the probability of getting three heads and two tails?
36.) The probability of getting credit in an examination is 1/3. If three students are selected at random,
what is the probability that at least one of them got a credit?
37.) There are three short questions in mathematics test. For each question, one (1) mark will be awarded
for a correct answer and no mark for a wrong answer. If the probability that Mary correctly answers a
question in a test is 2/3, determine the probability that Mary gets two marks.
38.) A marksman hits 75% of all his targets. What is the probability that he will hit exactly 4 of his next ten
shot?
39.) A two-digit number is chosen randomly. What is the probability that it is divisible by 7?
40.) One box contains four cards numbered 1, 3,5,and 6. Another box contains three cards numbered 2, 4,
and 7. One card is drawn from each bag. Find the probability that the sum is even.
41.) Two people are chosen randomly from 4 married couples. What is probability that they are husband
and wife?
42.) One letter is taken from each of the words PARALLEL and LEVEL at random. What is the probability of
getting the same letter?
43.) In a shooting game, the probability that Botoy and Toto will hit a target is 2/3 and ¾ respectively.
What is the probability that the target is hit when both shoot at it once?
44.) A standard deck of 52 playing cards is well shuffled. The probability that the first four cards dealt from
the deck will be four aces is closes to:
45.) A card is chosen from pack of playing cards. What is the probability that it is either red or a picture
card?
46.) In a poker game consisting of 5 cards, what is the probability of holding 2 aces and 2 Queens?
47.) Dennis Rodman sinks 50% of all his attempts. What is the probability that he will make exactly 3 of
his next 10 attempts?
48.) There are 10 defectives per 1000 items of a product in long run. What is the probability that there is
one and only one defective in random lot of 100?
49.) The UN forces for Bosnia uses a type of missile that hits the target with a probability of 0.3. How
many missiles should be fired so that there is at least an 80% probability of hitting the target?
50.) In a dice game, one fair is used. The player wins P20.00 if he rolls either 1 or 6. He losses P10.00 if
he turns up any other face. What is the expected winning for one roll of the die?
 Answer Key Quiz N0. 1.2 (1-50):

1.) 360
2.) 120
3.) 277,200
4.) 576
5.) 120
6.) 72
7.) 720
8.) 144
9.) 576
10.) 15120
11.) 15120
12.) 324632
13.) 78
14.) 140
15.) 540
16.) 31
17.) 2/3
18.) 1/e
19.) 5/14
20.) 3/28
21.) 15/28
22.) 13/28
23.) 0.948
24.) 1/12
25.) 7/36
26.) 0.53
27.) 28/121
28.) ½
29.) 1/6
30.) 35/128
31.) 1/16
32.) 1/8
33.) ¼
34.) 1/32
35.) 5/16
36.) 19/27
37.) 4/9
38.) 0.01622
39.) 13/90
40.) 5/12
41.) 1/7
42.) 1/5
43.) 11/12
44.) 4 x 10-6
45.) 8/13
46.) 33/54145
47.) 15/128
48.) 0.3697
49.) 5
50.) P0.00