1.

In how many ways can a total of 8 be thrown if 3 dice are

tossed? 12. One card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing
a. 16 b. 18 c. 21* d. 32 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is either
a heart or a face card?
2. A boy has 8 differently colored beads. In how many ways
A. 0.532
can he select 2 or more beads to form a bracelet?
B. 0.352
A. 128 B. 247 C. 110 D. 219*
C. 0.423
D. 0.279
3. How many different signals each consisting of 6 flags
hung in a vertical line can be formed from 4 identical red
13. Three friends A, B and C are in a race. The odds that A will
flags and 2 identical blue flags?
A. 15* B. 13 C. 12 D. 14 win are 7 to 5, and the odds that B will win are 1 to 3. what
are the odds in favor of C.
4. From a group of 5 nurses and 7 engineers in a medical A. 1 to 4
mission bound for Syria, how many different committees B. 3 to 2
consisting of 2 nurses and 3 engineers can be formed C. 1 to 5
given that two of the engineers are feuding and refuse to D. 2 to 5
be on the same committee together?
A. 100 B. 200 C. 300 * D. 400 14. A bag contains 3 white balls and 5 black balls. If two balls
are drawn in succession without replacement, what is the
5. Two people are selected randomly from a group of 4 men probability that both balls are black?
and 4 women. The probability that a man and a woman A. 5/28
are selected is B. 5/32
A. 4/7* B. 2/7 C. 1/4 D. 3/7 C. 5/16
D. 5/14
6. In how many ways can 9 different books be arranged on a
shelf so that 3 of the books are never all 3 together? 15. A box contains 4 black balls and 6 white balls. What is the
probability of getting one black ball and one white ball in
A. 130,240 C. 160,480 two consecutive draws without replacement from the box?
B. 332,640* D. 260,354
A. 0.24
7. Find the number of ways that 6 teachers can be assigned B. 0.27
to 4 sections of an introductory psychology course if no C. 0.53
teacher is assigned to more than one section. D. 0.04
A. 30 B. 24 C. 120 D. 360*
16. A manufacturer has determined that a certain machine
8. Two dices are rolled simultaneously. The probability that averages one faulty unit for every 1000 it produces. What
the sum of digits on the top surface of the two dices is is the probability that an order of 200 units will have one or
even, is more faulty units?
A. 0.5* C. 0.25 A. 0.8190
B. 0.167 D. 0.125 B. 0.7315
C. 0.1814
9. An urn contains four yellow marbles and three blue D. 0.4617
marbles. How many blue marbles must be added to the
urn so that the probability of picking a yellow marble will 17. In a large city, 50% of the people choose a movie, 30%
be 1/3? choose dinner and a play, and 20% choose shopping as a
A. 5* C. 2 leisure activity. If a sample of 5 people is randomly
B. 3 D. 4 selected, find the probability that 3 are planning to go to a
movie, 1 to a play, and 1 to a shopping mall.
10. A box contains 8 good and 4 bad light bulbs. Daniel
A. 0.15
randomly picks a bulb from the box, tests it, and then
B. 0.10
replaces it. If Daniel picks 4 light bulbs with replacement,
C. 0.53
what is the probability he will pick exactly 2 bad light
D. 1.12
bulbs?
A. 4/27 C. 8/27*
B. 1/9 D. 4/9 18. Three light bulbs are chosen at random from 15 bulbs of
which 5 are defective. Find the probability that exactly one
11. Roll a pair of dice one time. What is the probability of is defective.
getting a sum of 9? A. 67/91
A. 1/36 B. 24/91
B. 1/12 C. 45/91
C. 1/9 D. 34/91
D. 2/9
19. In a music store, a manager found that the probabilities B. 0.3621 D. 0.4781
that a person buys 0, 1, or 2 or more CDs are 0.3, 0.6, and 27. What is the probability of obtaining a poker hand (5 cards)
0.1, respectively. If 6 customers enter the store, find the containing 2 aces?
probability that 1 wont buy any CDs, 3 will buy 1 CD, and A. 0.04
2 will buy 2 or more CDs. B. 0.08
A. 0.04 B. 0.01 C. 0.06 D. 0.08 C. 0.14
D. 0.24
20. Ten books consisting of 5 mathematics books, 3 physics
books, and 2 chemistry books are placed in a bookcase at 28. In a family of four children, what is the probability of having
random. What is the probability that the books of each a set of three and one (i.e. three sons and a daughter or
kind are all together? three daughters and a son)?
A. 1/420 A. 3/4
B. 3/512 B. 1/4
C. 2/241 C. 1/2
D. 5/246 D. 5/8

21. Find the probability of getting exactly 12 correct answers 29. Roll a die once. Find the probability that a number less
out of 30 questions on true or false questions. than 4 will come out given that the roll resulted to an odd
A. 0.08 number.
B. 0.15 A. 1/3 B. 2/3 C. D. 3/4
C. 0.12
D. 0.02 30. In a certain college, 5% of the men and 2% of the women
took engineering. Furthermore, 60% of the students are
22. In a shooting game, the probabilities that Rino and Joel men. Now if a student is selected at random and is found
will hit the target are and 2/5 respectively. What is the to be an engineering student, what is the probability that
probability that the target will be hit if Rino and Joel each the student is a man.
shoot at the target? A. 13/19 B. 14/19 C. 15/19 D. 16/19
A. 11/20
B. 5/12 31. A shipment of two boxes, each containing six telephones,
C. 11/12 is received by a store. Box 1 contains one defective
D. 2/20 phone, and box 2 contains two defective phones. After the
boxes are unpacked, a phone is selected and found to be
23. The probability that A can solve a given problem is 4/5, defective. Find the probability that it came from box 2.
that B can solve is 2/3 and that C can solve it is 3/7. if all A. 1/3 B. 2/3 C. D. 3/4
three try, compute the probability that the problem will be
solved. 32. A batch of one hundred bulbs is inspected by testing four
A. 0.64 randomly chosen bulbs. The batch is rejected if even one
B. 0.52 of the bulbs is defective. A batch typically has five
C. 0.96 defective bulbs. The probability that the current batch is
D. 0.81 accepted is
a. 0.81* b. 0,71 c. 0.61 d. 0.51
24. In a 5-card poker hand, what is the probability that one is
dealt a full house? 33. An unbiased coin is tossed an infinite number of times.
A. 0.014 The probability that the fourth head appears at the tenth
B. 0.019 toss is
C. 0.018 (A) 0.067 (B) 0.073 (C) 0.082* (D)0.091
D. 0.020
34. The probability that an event A occurs in one trial of an
experiment is 0.4. Three independent trials of experiment
25. In a 5-card poker hand, find the probability that the hand
are performed. The probability that A occurs at least once
contains 3 spades.
is
A. 0.061
(A) 0.936 (B) 0.784* (C) 0.964 D None
B. 0.076
C. 0.082
35. A speaks truth in 75% and B in 80% of the cases. In what
D. 0.089
percentage of cases are they likely to contradict each
other narrating the same incident?
26. If approximately 2% of the people in a room of 200 people
(A) 5% (B) 45% (C) 35%* (D) 15%
are left-handed, find the probability that exactly 5 people
there are left-handed.
A. 0.1563 C. 0.2651