PHASE 2 (BASIC MATHEMATICS) – EASY ROUND

1. It is a standard test used when treating ordinal data in the form of frequencies or proportions.
Chi Square Test
2. A girl can buy shoes from 10 different stores and a handbag at 7 different stores. If she buys a pair of
shoes at one store and a bag at another, how many sets of two stores are available?
70 sets
3. Two events are said to be _________________ if and only if their intersection is ø (AᴖB= ø).
Mutually Exclusive Events
4. True or False. The probability that Acer will pass his exam in Biology is 0.35 and the probability that
he will fail the same exam is 0.62.
False
5. A pair of fair, standard dice is rolled. What is the probability the sum of the dice is 5?
1/9
6. How many 4 digits odd numbers can be formed using 2, 4, 5, 9, and 8 if no digit is to be repeated?
48 numbers
7. There are 3 white cards (W), 4 red cards (R), and 5 green cards (G) in a box. What is the probability of
drawing a red card after drawing a green which is not replaced?
5/33
8. A compact representation of for the product of the first n consecutive positive integers.
Factorial Notation
9. Find the mode of the following data: 22, 24, 25,22, 27, 22, 25, 30, 25, and 31.
22 and 25
10. The plot of the class boundary against the cumulative frequency (less than or greater than 0 is called
__________.
Ogive
11. Two dice are rolled, find the probability that the sum is equal to 1.
0
12. The blood groups of 200 people is distributed as follows: 50 have type A blood, 65 have B blood type,
70 have O blood type and 15 have type AB blood. If a person from this group is selected at random,
what is the probability that this person has O blood type?
7/20 or 0.35
13. In how many ways can a die fall?
6 ways
14. It is a numerical measure that describes the characteristic of a sample.
Statistic
15. TRUE or FALSE. Correlation analysis is a method of measuring strength of such relationship between
two variables.
True
16. A type of specifying a set in which all elements belonging in the set are listed and enclosed by braces.
Roster Method
17. The 40th percentile of a data is equal to 35. This means that
A. The data is equal to mean
B. 60% of the data is above 35
C. 40% of the data is above 35
D. 60 % of data is below the mean
E. None of the above
18. If the distribution is skewed to the left, what percentage of distribution will be larger than the mean?
A. More than 50 %
B. Less than 50%
C.50%
D. Cannot be determined
19. Fifty different numbers are arranged in a matrix with 5 rows and 10 columns. You pick at random one
number from the matrix. Let A be the event that the number comes from an odd-numbered row and B
be the event that the number comes from the first five columns. Are the events A and B independent?
Yes
20. Which of the following is a discrete random variable?
I. The average height of a randomly selected group of boys.
II. The annual number of sweepstakes winners from New York City.
III. The number of presidential elections in the 20th century.
A. I only D. I and II
 B. II only E. II and III
C. III only
21. Which of the following is false?
A. The probability that Mush will choose Jem over Ace is 0.78.
B. At a normal curve, mean is equal to median.
C. The probability of obtaining a head and a tail when you flipped a fair coin is equal to 0.18 and 0. 82,
respectively.
D. None of the above
22. The area under a normal curve is equal to ____.
One(1)
23. In a class of 60 college students, 20 are girls. One-fourth of the girls and one-fifth of the boys wear
glasses. If a student is chosen at a random what is the probability that the student is a girl or wears
glasses.
7/15
24. This is the process of obtaining information about a larger group from the study of a smaller group or
the science of drawing statistical conclusion about a population from a specific data using probability
and specific statistical data prediction techniques.
Inferential Statistics
25. A spinner is divided into 12 equal sectors and the numbers 1,2,…,12 are written in the sectors. What is
the probability that the pointer stops at an odd number if it is known that it stopped at a number
divisible by 3?
½
26. There are 5 high schools in a city. In how many different ways can 3 students attend these high
schools if no two of them may go to the same school?
60 ways
27. In how many ways can 𝑥 3 𝑦 5 be written without using exponents?
56 ways
28. This is a level of measurement which involves data that maybe arranged in some order, but
differences between data values either cannot be determined or are meaningless.
Ordinal Level
29. It is a process of picking out people in the most convenient and fastest way to get reactions
immediately.
Convenience or Haphazard Sampling
30. The average grade of ten students in their Statistics is 92. If their teacher gives an additional grade of
three to each student, what will their average on the final grade?
95

PHASE 2 (BASIC MATHEMATICS) – AVERAGE ROUND

1. He is a Russian mathematician who was able to come up with an acceptable definition of probability.
Andrey Kolmogorov
2. In how many ways can a patrol of 1 officer and 4 enlisted men be chosen from 4 officers and 10
enlisted men?
840 ways
3. A box has 12 bulbs, of which 3 are defective. If 4 bulbs are sold, find the probability that exactly one
will be defective.
0.509
4. A die is rolled; find the probability of getting the first 3 on the fourth roll.
0.96
5. In a batch of 10 items, we wish to extract a sample of 3 without replacement. How many different
samples can we extract?
120 different samples
6. There are six men and seven women in a ballroom dancing class. If four men and four women are
chosen and paired off, how many pairings are possible?
24 ways
7. A five question short quiz has three true or false question followed by two multiple choice questions.
For each multiple choice questions there are four possible answers. What is the probability of having
a perfect score?
1/128
8. In how any ways can a delegation of 7 students be chosen from 5 seniors, 5 juniors, 4 sophomores,
and 3 freshmen if the delegation includes 2 seniors 2 juniors, 2 sophomores, and a freshman?
1800 ways
9. An amusement park has 28 different rides. In how many different ways can a person try four of these
rides, assuming that the order matters and that she does not want to try any ride more than once?
491, 400 ways
10. How many different 7-letter symbols can be formed from the word CONCERN if the symbol must
begin with a consonant?
900 different 7-letter symbols
11. In a certain country last year a total of 500 million tons of trash was recycled. The chart below shows
the distribution, in millions of tons, for the different types of trashes.

How many tons of Iron/Steel was recycled?

130
12. Your neighbor has 2 children. He picks one of them at random and comes by your house; he brings a
boy named Joe (his son). What is the probability that Joe’s sibling is a brother?
1/2
13. Suppose that five good fuses and two defective ones have been mixed up. To find the defective fuses,
we test them one-by-one, at random and without replacement. What is the probability that we are
lucky and find both of the defective fuses in the first two tests?
1/21
14. “The Birthday Problem” In a room with of 5 people, what is the probability that at least two people
have the same birthday? Assume birthdays are uniformly distributed and there is no leap year
complication. (Hint: what is the probability that they all have different birthdays?)
2.71%
15. The numbers 1,2,3,4,.. 38,39,40 are written on slips of paper, placed into a box and mixed thoroughly.
Two numbers are drawn together at random. What is the probability of the occurrence of the events if
the both numbers are divisible by 5?
7/195
16. The mean number of parking tickets issued in a neighborhood over a four-month period was 95, and
the standard deviation was 8. The average revenue generated from the tickets was 5,800, and the
standard deviation was 660. Which of the statements are true?
I. There is more variability in the number of tickets issued than the recorded revenues.
II. There is more variability in the recorded revenues than in the number of tickets issued.
III. There is less variability in the recorded revenues than in the number of tickets issued.
IV. Their variability are the just the same.
A. I only B. II only C. I and III D. IV only
17. Suppose 100 people all toss a hat into a box and then proceed to randomly pick out a hat. What is the
expected number of people to get their own hat back. Hint: express the number of people who get
their own hat as a sum of random variables whose expected value is easy to compute.
One (1)
18. The 9 board members, 5 male and 4 female, of a certain company are to elect a president, a vice
president, a secretary, and a treasurer. If the company rules require the president and secretary to be
of the same sex, while the vice-president and the treasurer be of the opposite sex, in how many ways
can the election of the officers be made?
640 ways
19. Find n so that the number of permutations of n elements taken 2 at a time is 6 times as great as the
number of permutations of (n-5) elements taken 2 at a time.
Nine (9)
20. Pete is going on a vacation trip and wants to take 5 books with him. He can choose from 7 biographies
and 8 novels. In how many ways can he choose the 5 if two books are of one kind and 3 of the other
kind?
2548 ways
21. The probability of obtaining an ace in a well-shuffled deck of card is equal to X, while the probability
of obtaining a heart is equal to Y. What is the probability of getting an ace or a heart in terms of X and
Y?
X+Y-1
 22. Two machines, A and B, manufacture a particular component. Here is the chart showing each
machine's effectiveness:
Machine # Components Probability Faulty
A 2500 0.04
B 1500 0.05
If a component is chosen randomly from all of them, what is the probability it is faulty?
7/160
23. A hot line with a full free number receives an average of 4 calls per hour for any given hour. Find the
probability that it will receive exactly 5 calls.
10%
24. Two cards from an ordinary deck of 52 cards are missing. What is the probability that a random card
drawn from this deck is a spade?
¼
25. Suppose the average number of calls by 104 in one minute is 2. What is the probability of 10 calls in 5
minutes?
0.1251
26. How many 3-digit numbers can be formed from the digits 1,2,3,4,5 if all the numbers are greater than
200?
75 3-digit numbers
27. In how many ways can 3 boys and 3 girls be seated in a row if all girls and all boys must sit side by
side?
72 ways
28. Two fair dice are tossed. What is the probability that the sum is at least 9?
5/18
29. A witness to a hit-and-run accident told that the police that the license number contained BSQ
followed by 3 digits, the first of which is 5. If the witness recalls the last two digits, but is certain that
all three digits are different, what is the maximum number of automobile registrations that the police
may have to check?
72
30. A fair coin is tossed and a fair die is rolled. Find the sample space.
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PHASE 2 (BASIC MATHEMATICS) – DIFFICULT ROUND

1. P(A) = 2/5, P(A | B) = 1/3 and P(B | A) = 1/2. Determine the value of P(A ∪ B).
4/5
2. Given a normal distribution with µ = 40 and σ= 5, find the probability that x assumes a value between 36
and 42. (Provide Statistical Table)
0.4435
3. What is the fair price to pay for a raffle ticket if one can win ₱10,000 with a probability of 0.002 and
₱5,000 with the probability of 0.002?
P30
4. A random variable has a normal distribution with the mean (µ) = 80 and the standard deviation (σ) =
4.8. What are the probabilities that this random variable will take on a value less than 87.2?
0.9332 or 93.32 %
5. In a large city, 60% of the workers drive to work, 30% take the bus, and 10% take the train. If 5 workers
are selected at random, find the probability that 2 will drive, 2 will take the bus, and 1 will take the train.
0.0972
6. The Edwards’s Theater chain has studied its movie customers to determine how much money they spend
on concessions. The study revealed that the spending distribution is approximately normally distributed
with a mean of $4.11 and a standard deviation of $1.37. What percentage of customers will spend less
than $3.00 on concessions?
20.9%
7. What is the probability that a randomly selected person from the sample either smokes or drinks coffee?
Coffee No Coffee Total
Smoker 60 40 100
Non-Smoker 115 85 200
Total 175 125 300
 0.7617
8. This states that the percentage of observed values that fall within distances of k standard deviations
1
below and above the mean must be at least (1 - 𝑘 2 )100%.
Bienayme-Chebyshev Rule
9. What score must Carla get in her 6th exam to get an average of 90 if her average on the first five quizzes is
86?
110
10. A BSBA - Mgt. student estimates the probability that he will pass Business Statistics is 0.60, the
probability that he will pass Practicum I is 0.65, and the probability he will pass both is 0.55. What is the
probability that he will pass Business Statistics given that he has already passed Practicum I?
85%
11. A family is planning a picnic for Labor Day. They will not go if it rains or if the father can work that day.
The probability that it will rain is .15 and the probability that the father will be able to work is .2
Assuming that the two events are independent, what is the probability that they will go on the picnic?
0.68
12. What is the probability that I flip a coin and get a Head, Roll a die and get a 4 or a 6, and then pull the king
of Spades and a diamond from a deck of card.
0.000815
13. A boy has five coins of different denomination. How many different sums of money can he form?
31 different sums
14. Assume that 30 out of 50 employees at a manufacturing company are production workers. 12 of the 30
employees are between ages 18-29, 10 of the 30 employees are between ages 30 to 49 and 8 of the 30
employees are between ages 50 to 65. What is the probability that a single selected employee is a
production worker? 0.6
15. A company that does tax returns has determined that the probability that a tax return will require a
refund is 55%. The probability that a tax return will require a refund and the return contains an error is
20%. A tax return has been selected and known to require a refund Find the probability that the selected
tax return has an error given that it requires a refund?
0.3656
16. In a game of cards, you will be paid Php 3 if you draw an ace and Php 2 if you draw a king. Any other card
means you pay Php 1. What is your mathematical expectation?
a loss of Php 0.462
17. Suppose we want to buy a stock and we can select from one out of two. The prices of stock one and stock
two per share are Php 2100 and Php 650 respectively. Let us say that for the past months, we compiled
data on the sample of prices of stock 1 and stock 2 at the close of trading and we have the following
statistics:
Stock 1 Stock 2
Mean Php 2095 Php 665
Standard Deviation Php 450 Php 80
Which stock are we going to select?
Stock 1
18. Boxes of whole grain mighty wheats cereal are filled automatically and the net weight is approximated by
a normal distribution with a mean of 16 ounces and a standard deviation of .4 ounces. What is the
probability of obtaining a box with a net weight of less than 16.7 ounces?
0.9599
19. A customer has approached a bank for a loan. Without further information, the bank believes there is a
4% chance that the customer will default on the loan. The bank can run a credit check on the customer.
The check will yield either a favorable or an unfavorable report. From past experience, the bank believes
that P(favorable report being received | customer will default) = 0.03 and P(favorable report being
received | customer will not default) = 0.99. What is the probability that a favorable report will be
received?
0.95
20. Exactly two cab companies operate in Belleville. The Blue Company has blue cabs, and the Green
Company has Green Cabs. Exactly 85% of the cabs are blue and the other 15% are green. A cab was
involved in a hit-and-run accident at night. A witness, Wilbur, identified the cab as a Green cab. Careful
tests were done to ascertain peoples’ ability to distinguish between blue and green cabs at night. The
tests showed that people were able to identify the color correctly 80% of the time, but they were wrong
20% of the time. What is the probability that the cab involved in the accident was indeed a green cab, as
Wilbur says?
0.414
21. Three manufacturing plants, say A, B and C, produce 20, 30 and 50 percent of a company’s output
respectively. The manager of plant C is very quality conscious and only 1% of the items from that plant
are defective. Plants A and B have defective rates of 3% and 5% respectively. What is the probability that
a randomly-chosen item from the company’s warehouse is defective?
0.026
22. The prices of 7 canned goods bought in a grocery store are the following: Php 46, Php 35, Php 28, Php 45,
Php39, Php29, and Php X. If the arithmetic mean of those values is Php 38, what is the value of X?
44
23. Gail, a Civil Engineering student, has already a GWA of 1.52 in her first sem as a freshman. The only
subject left that has no grade is General Chemistry with 5 units. If the total units in her first sem is 30
units, what should be her minimum final grade in that subject for her to become a nominee for
President’s lister? (Note that the minimum GWA for being a president’s lister is at least 1.50)
1.25
24. Urn 1 contains 5 white balls and 7 black balls. Urn 2 contains 3 whites and 12 black. A fair coin is flipped;
if it is Heads, a ball is drawn from Urn 1, and if it is Tails, a ball is drawn from Urn 2. Suppose that this
experiment is done and you learn that a white ball was selected. What is the probability that this ball was
in fact taken from Urn 2?
12/37
25. Many states use a sequence of three letters followed by a sequence of three digits as their standard
license-plate pattern. Given that each three-letter three-digit arrangement is equally likely, the
probability that such a license plate will contain at least one palindrome (a three-letter arrangement or a
three-digit arrangement that reads the same left-to-right as it does right-to-left) is m/n , where m and n
are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+n.
59
26. In how many ways can 5 ladies and 5 gentlemen can be seated at a round table so that no ladies sit
together?
21, 600 ways
27. An appliance store during the first 5 days of their month-long promotion sale at the Glorietta (November
to December 2004) had the following daily number of stereo component sets sold: 2, 5, 7, 8, and 3. What
is the mean absolute deviation during these first 5 days sale?
2 units
28. A box of screws contains 5% defective screws. How many screws have to be chosen at random before
there's a greater than 50% chance that at least one is defective?
14
29. A man tosses ten coins among 10 children. The coins are two 50 centavos, three 25 centavos, four 10
centavos, and one peso coin. In how many ways can the children share the coins, if each of them is to get
one coin?
12600 ways
30. In Physics class of Prof. Manguera, a student was graded 94 in class standing, 71 in laboratory, and X in
final examination. If 40% of the final grade will be coming from the class standings, 25% on laboratory,
and 35% on final examination, what would be his grade in final examination if he’s final grade overall is
89.3?
97