De La Salle University Dasmarias

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COMPUTER STUDIES

MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT
City of Dasmarias, Cavite

OFFLINE ASSESSMENT 2: PROBABILITY

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1 Semester / Midterm Period / S.Y. 2017-2018

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Answers
1. A card is drawn from a regular deck. Find the
probability that the card is red if it is known to be a
face card.

2. In a poker hand consisting of 5 cards, what is the

probability of holding 2 Aces and 3 Kings?

3. A card is drawn from a regular deck. Find the

probability that the card drawn is a diamond, a heart or a
spade.

4. A card is drawn from an ordinary deck of cards and we

are told that it is red. What is the probability that the
card is greater than 2 but less than 9?

5. A box contains 7 red balls and 5 white balls. Two balls

are drawn in succession. What is the probability that
the second ball is white if it is known that the first is
white?

6. Two balls are picked at random from a jar that

contains three red and five white balls. Find the
probability that both balls are red.

7. A couple intends to have 4 children. Assume that

having a boy and having a girl are equally likely
events. Find the probability that the couple has two
boys and two girls given that at least 2 boys are
born.

8. A letter is chosen at random from the word

EXTRATERRESTRIAL. Find the probability that letter
T was chosen.

9. An American roulette wheel has 38 slots. Two of the

slots are numbered 0 and 00 the rest are numbered
from 1 to 36. Find the probability that the ball lands
in an odd-numbered slot or in a slot with a number
higher than 31.

10. What is the probability of winning in the Lotto 6/42

draw?

11. A drawer contains an unorganized collection of 18

socks. Three pairs are red, two pairs are white, and four
pairs are black. Once a sock has been drawn and
discovered to be red, what is the probability of drawing
another red sock to make a matching pair?

12. A pair of dice is rolled. What is the probability that

the two dice show the same number?

13. A bowl contains 15 cookies, 4 are bingo, 3 are

cream-o, 8 are presto. What is the probability that a
kid will select randomly will have a bingo given that
he and his two brothers already ate a cream-o?

14. The tickets in a raffle draw are numbered from 0001-

7000. if a ticket would be drawn to choose the winner
of a brand new car, what is the probability that the
lucky person to own a brand new car has a ticket
number ending in 5?

15. A videoke machine is stored with 100 foreign and 80

local songs. If the person will use the machine in
game mode where he can sing 3 randomly selected
songs, what is the probability that the songs are
composed of 1 foreign and 2 local songs?

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