IE REVIEW QUESTIONS

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

EASY, AVERAGE AND DIFFICULT

ROUND

1. A set of all measurements of interest to the investigator.(25 seconds)

a. Event
b. Population
c. Sample
d. Variable

Answer: Population

2. A die is rolled 20 times. Given that

three of the rolls came up 1, five
came up 2, four came up 3, two
came up 4, three came up 5, and
three came up 6. How many different
arrangements of the outcomes are
there? ( 1 minute)
A. 5400 B.2.43x10e18
C. 1.955x10e12 D. 270

Answer: C

3. A committee of 5 people is to be
formed randomly from a group of 10
women and 6 men. Find the
probability that the committee has 3
women and 2 men.( 1 minute)
A. 0.214087
C. 0.421087

B. 0.142087
D. 0.412087

Answer: 10C3*6C2/16C5=0.412087

4. In a school, 60% of pupils have

access to the internet at home. A
group of 8 students is chosen at
random. Find the probability that
exactly 5 have access to the
internet.( 1.5 minutes)
A. 0.375
B. 0. 279
C. 0.268
D. 0. 365

Answer: B

5. A quality control engineer

samples 100 items manufactured by
a certain process, and find that 15
of them are defective. The
probability that an item produced by
this process is defective is 0.15 ( 25
seconds)
A. True

B. False

Answer: B. false

6. Based from the question#5; The

probability that an item produced by
this process is defective is likely to
be close to 0.15, but not exactly
equal to 0.15 (25 seconds)
A. True

B. False

Answer: a. True

7. Of the microprocessor
manufactured by a certain process,
0.20 % are defective. Five
microprocessor are chosen at
random. Assume they function
independently. What is the probability
that they all work. ( 1 min)
A. 0.00032 B. 1
C. 4 D. 0.328

Answer: D. (1-0.2)*5=0.328

8. Suppose a life insurance company

insures the lives of 5000 men aged
42. If actuarial studies show the
probability that any 42 year old man
will die in a given year to be 0.001,
find the exact probability that he
company will have to pay x=4 claims
during in a given year. (Poisson
Distribution) ( 3 minutes)

9. A car manufacturer is concerned about the possible

recall of their best-selling pick-up trucks. If there was a
recall, there is 0.25 probability that a defect is in the
brake system, 0.18 in the transmission, 0.17 in the fuel
system, and 0.40 in some other area. What is the
probability that the defect is the brakes or the fueling
system if the probability of defects in both systems
simultaneously is 0.15?
A. 0.27
B. 0.25
C. 0.18
D. 0.15

Answer: A

10. In a certain semiconductor plant, three

machines, M1, M2, and M3, make 30%, 45%, and
25%, respectively, of the products. It is known
from past experience that these machines produce
defective products at 2%, 3%, and 2%,
respectively. Suppose that a finished product is
randomly selected by the final QC Inspector, what
is the probability that it is defective? ( 1.5 minutes)
A. 0.006
B. 0.0245
C. 0.00135
D. 0.005

Answer: B

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