Question 1 ____

In a sample of 50 students, 20 persons own black color car, 22 persons own silver color car, and the rest
own red car. If a person is selected randomly from the sample, find the probability that:

a) The person owns black car:

b) The person owns red or silver:

Question 2 ____
There is 35% probability that a person living in your city use organic vegetables. If two such persons are
selected randomly, find the probability that:

a) Both use organic vegetables.

b) At least one do not use organic vegetables.

Question 3 ____
a) In a restaurant menu there are 8 starters, 5 main courses, 4 drinks and 5 desserts to choose from. If a
person randomly chooses one from each type, how many outcomes are possible?

b) How many ways can four students from 12 be arranged if they are to be assigned different tasks ?

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Question 4 ____
The types of books surveyed in a used books sale is as follows. Use the data to answer the questions
below.

English French
Novel 70 50
Poems 100 60

a) It is Novel given French:

b) It is English or novel:

c) It is French and poems:

d) Test whether the events ‘French’ and ‘Novel’ independent.

Question 5
The probability that Tom will be accepted by the college of his choice and obtain a scholarship
is 0.45. The probability that the college of his choice will accept him is 0.64. Find the probability
he will obtain a scholarship given that the college of his choice accepts him.

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Question 6
In a university, 11 of 25 professors favor the use of online textbooks. If a sample of 2 professors is
selected without replacement draw the tree diagram and find the probability that:

a) Both favor the use of online textbooks.

b) At least one favors the use of online textbooks.

Question 7
According to a survey, there is 86% probability that a person uses at least one smart device. If a sample
of two such persons is selected, construct a probability distribution for the number of persons who use a
smart device (x).

b) Draw a probability graph for the above distribution.

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Question 8
Let X be the number of cars sold by a dealer on a given day. The following table lists the
probability distribution for X. Calculate the mean and standard deviation for the probability
distribution.
X 0 1 2 3 4
P(X) 0.12 0.38 0.24 0.16 0.10

a) Mean:

b) Standard deviation:

Question 9
A city council observed that 82% of their residents exercise outdoors. A sample of 40 such residents is
selected. Find:

a) The probability that exactly 25 exercise outdoors.

b) The expected number of residents who exercise outdoors and its variance.

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Probability

Classical probability rule for a simple event:

Classical probability rule for a compound event:

Conditional probability of an event:

Condition for independence of events:

Multiplication rule for dependent events:

Multiplication rule for independent events:

Addition rule for mutually nonexclusive events:

Addition rule for mutually exclusive events:

Factorial :

Combination Rule:

Permutation rule:

Discrete probability Distribution

Mean of a discrete random variable

Standard deviation of a discrete random variable :

Binomial probability formula:

Mean and standard deviation of the binomial distribution:

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