ADAMSON UNIVERSITY

Engineering Probability and Statistics

SW#2 Midterm MWF

Name: ____________________ and _____________________ Time: _________________ Score: ___________

Solve the following problems. BOX your final answer and limit your answer to 4 decimal places.
1) One students name will be picked at random to win a CD player. There are 12 male seniors, 15 female seniors,
10 male juniors, 4 female juniors, 2 male sophomores, 5 female sophomores, 12 male freshmen and 11 female
freshmen. Find the probability that:
a. Senior or a junior is picked?

b. A Sophomore or a female is picked?

c. A freshman is not picked?

2) One overnight case contains 2 bottles of aspirin and 3 bottles of thyroid tablets. A second tote bags contains 3
bottles of aspirin and 2 bottles of thyroid tablets and 1 bottle of laxative tablets. If one bottle of tables is taken
at random from each piece of luggage, find the probability that:

a. Both bottle contains thyroid tablet;

b. Neither bottle contains thyroid tablet;

c. The two bottles contain different tablets

3) The probability that a rare species of hamster will give birth to one male and one female is 1/3. The probability
that the hamster will give birth to a male is 1/2. What is the probability that the hamster will give birth to a
female knowing that the hamster has given birth to a male?

4) If two dice are thrown or rolled find the probability that:

a.Two faces shows the different number

b.The sum of the two faces are greater than 8

c.at least one ace

d.a total of at most 4

e.A sum of 5 or a sum of 9

5) The probability that a married man watches a certain TV show is 0.40 and the probability that a married
woman watches the show is 0.50. The probability that a man watches the show given that his wife does is
0.70. Find the probability that:

a. A married couple watches the show

b. A wife watches the show given that her husband does

c. At least 1 person of a married couple will watch the show

 6) If the probabilities that an automobile mechanic will service 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 or more cars on any given
workdays are, respectively, 0.12, 0.19, 0.28, 0.24, 0.10 and 0.07;

a. What is the probability that he will serve at least 5 cars on his next day at work?

b. What is the probability that no more than 4 cars will be serviced by the mechanics?

c. What is the probability that he will service fewer than 8 cars?

d. What is the probability that he will service either 3 or 4 cars?

7) A political telephone survey of 258 people asked whether they were in favor or not in favor of the proposed
law. Each person was identified as republican and democrat. A person from the survey is selected at random.

Party In Favor Not Favor

Republican 98 52
Democrat 79 29

________a. Determine the probability that the selected person is in favor of the new law given that the person
is a Republican

________b. Determine the probability that the selected person is not in favor of the new law given that the
person is a Republican

________c. Determine the probability that the selected person is in favor of the new law given that the person
is a Democrat

________d. Determine the probability that the selected person is in favor of the new law and the person is a
Republican

________e. Determine the probability that the selected person is in favor of the new law and the person is a
Democrat

________f. Determine the probability that the selected person is in favor of the new law or the person is a
Republican

________g. Determine the probability that the selected person is in favor of the new law or the person is a
Democrat

8). Two cards are drawn in succession from a deck without replacement. What is the probability that both cards
are greater than 2 and less than 8?

9). Two boxes contain colored balls. Box 1 contains 4 blue, 3 green and 5 red balls. Box 2 contains 6 blue, 2 green
and 3 red balls. A ball is selected at random from box 1 and transferred to box 2. A ball is then selected at
random from box 2. If the ball selected from box 2 is green, what is the probability that the ball transferred
from box 1 was: (a) green? (b) blue?