Math 1690 Test III Practice Questions

March 7, 2011

Direction: Calculators are NOT allowed.

1. Let S = {1, 2, 3, 4} be a sample space associated with an
experiment. How many subsets of S contain the numbers 1 or 2?
Ans. 12
2. A die is rolled and the number that falls uppermost is observed.
Let E denote the event that the number shown is even, and let F
denote the event that the number is an odd number.
a. Are the events E and F mutually exclusive? Explain.
b. Are the events E and F complementary? Explain.
Ans. a. Yes b. Yes
3. The number of cars entering a tunnel leading to an airport in a
major city over a period of 200 peak hours was observed, and the
following data were obtained:

Number of Cars, x Frequency of Occurence

0 < x ≤ 200 15
200 < x ≤ 400 20
400 < x ≤ 600 35
600 < x ≤ 800 70
800 < x ≤ 1000 45
x > 1000 15
a. Describe an appropriate sample space for this experiment.
b. Find the probability distribution for this experiment.
c. Find the probability that the number of cars entering is less or
equal to 800.
d. Find the probability that the number of cars entering is bigger
than 400.
Ans. a. S = {(0 < x ≤ 200), (200 < x ≤ 400), (400 < x ≤
600), (600 < x ≤ 800), (800 < x ≤ 1000), (x > 1000)}
b.

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 Number of Cars, x Frequency of Occurence
0 < x ≤ 200 0.075
200 < x ≤ 400 0.1
400 < x ≤ 600 0.175
600 < x ≤ 800 0.35
800 < x ≤ 1000 0.225
x > 1000 0.075
c. 0.70
d. 0.825
4. A pair of dice is rolled, and the number that appears uppermost
on each die is observed. Find the probability of the event that one
die shows a 6, and the other is a number less than 3.
Ans. 19
5. An experiment consists of selecting a card at random from a
52-card deck. Find the probability that a face card (i.e., a jack,
queen, or king) is drawn.
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Ans. 13
6. Let E and F be two mutually exclusive events, and suppose
P(E)=0.4, and P(F)=0.2. Compute:
a. P (E ∪ F )
b. P (E c ∩ F )
c. P (E c )
d. P (E c ∪ F c )
Ans. a. 0.6 b. 0.2 c. 0.6 d. 1.0
7. An unbiased coin is tossed six times. Find the probability of the
given event.
a. The coin lands heads at most twice.
b. The coin lands heads on the first three tosses.
Ans. a. 11 32
b. 18
8. A shelf in the Metro Department Store contains 80 colored ink
cartridges for a popular ink-jet printer. Six of the cartridges are
defective. If a customer selects 2 cartridges at random from the
shelf, what is the probability that
a. Both are defective?
b. At least 1 is defective?
C(6,2)
Ans. a. C(80,2) = 0.005 (approx.) b. 1 − C(74,2)
C(80,2)
= 0.145 (approx.)