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The height of a player on a basketball team.

a. discrete b. continuous

2. Classify the following random variable according to whether it is discrete or continuous. The
number of cups of coffee sold in a cafeteria during lunch.

a. discrete b. continuous

3. Jerwin is a 70% free throw shooter in basketball. During the game, what is the probability that
Jerwin makes his third free throw on his fifth shot?

a. 0.42 b. 0.58 c. 0.29 d. 0.71

4. A washing machine in a laundry shop in Sampaloc breaks down an average of three times
per month. Using the Poisson probability distribution formula, find the probability that during
the next month this machine will have exactly two breakdowns.

a. 0.040 b. 0.224 c. 0.000 d 0.078

5. The probability that a patient recovers from a rare blood disease is 0.6. It is known that 100
people have contracted this disease. It is desired to find the probability that less than one
-half survive. For easier computations, normal distribution is used to approximate this
binomial distribution. Find the value of the standard deviation to be used in the
computation.

a. 0.490 b. 24 c. 4.899 d 0.24

6. The lengths of steel girders produced in factory are normally distributed with a mean length of
12.5 m and a standard deviation of 2 cm. Girders need to be between 12.47 and 12.53
meters to be used in construction. Find the proportion of girders which cannot be used in
construction.

a. 86.639% b. 98.803% c. 1.197% d. 13.361%

7. The life span of a calculator manufactured by Lenovo Corporation has a normal distribution with
a mean of 54 months and a standard deviation of 8 months. The company guarantees
that any calculator that starts malfunctioning within 36 months of the purchase will be
replaced by a new one. About what percentage of such calculators made by this company are
expected to be replaced?

a. 1.22% b. 48.78% c. 98.78 d. 0%

8. The time taken by a terminal fee collector to collect terminal fees from passengers
entering NAIA is an exponential distribution with a mean of 23 seconds. What is the
probability that a random passenger will be processed in 25 seconds or more?

a. 0 b. 0.663 c. 0.337 d. 1

9. The number of cars passing a point on a road may be modelled by Poisson distribution. At an
average, 4 cars enters the Caibaan Diversion Road in Tacloban City every 5 minutes. Find the
probability that in a 5-minute period two cars go past.
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a. 0.854 b. 0.146 c. 0.238 d. 0.762

10. Studies have shown that 72.5% of apprehended snatchers in Metro Manila are drug users. In a
random sample of 16 apprehended snatchers, what is the probability that exactly 10 of them are
drug users?

a. 0.139 b. 0.861 c. 0.03 d. 0.997

11. In an examination, the marks are normally distributed with mean of 60.7 and a standard
deviation of 12.3. A candidate needs a mark of at least 40 to pass. What percentage of the
candidates fail?

a. 0. 454 b. 0.546 c. 0.046 d. 0.954

12. A sensor network consists of a large number of microprocessors spread out over an area, in
communication with each other and with a base station. In a certain network, the probability that
a message will fail to reach the base station is 0.005. Assume that during a particular day, 1000
messages are sent.

a. 1000 b. 5 c. 2.24 d. 25

13. A microbiologist wants to estimate the concentration of a certain type of bacterium in a

a. 39 b. 12 c. 19.5 d. 78

14. Someone claims that a certain suspension contains at least seven particles per mL. You sample
1 mL of solution. Let X be the number of particles in the sample. If the mean number of particles
is exactly 7 per mL, what is P(X ≤ 6)?

a. 0.4497 b. 0.6514 c. 0.7955 d. 0.6453

15. Twenty percent of all auto parts manufactured at a company are defective. Four auto parts are
selected at random. What is the probability that three of these four auto parts are good?

a. 0.410 b. 0.590 c. 0.026 d 0.974

16. Assume the probability that you will make a sale on any given telephone call is 0.19. Find the
probability that you make your first sale on the fifth call.

a. 0.026 b. 0.001 c. 0.410 d 0.082

17. A manufacturer estimates that 1.5% of his output of a small item is defective. Find the
probabilities that in a pack of 200 items, three or more are defective.

a. 0.35 b. 0.65 c. 0.42 d. 0.58

18. The probability that any given person will believe a tale about life & death is 0.8. What is the
probability that the 6th person to hear it is the 4th one to believe it?

a. 0.246 b. 0.164 c. 0.006 d 0.003

19. A pack consists of 20 pieces of candy. In a thousand packs, 40 contains less than 20 pieces.
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When selecting 3 packs, what is the probability of selecting a pack with less than 20 candies.

a. 0.111 b. 0.000 c. 0.036 d. 0.368

20. A teller at Metrobank Morayta branch serves, on an average, 30 customers per hour. Assume
that the service time for a customer has an exponential probability distribution. What is the
probability that the next customer will take two to four minutes to be served?

a. 0.2325 b. 0.865 c. 0.63 d. 1