Probability AND Statistics: Final Term Examination

PROBABILITY
AND
STATISTICS
FINAL TERM EXAMINATION
DIRECTION
• On the following questions, solve for the correct answer and choose your answer on the
given choices. If it happens that your answer is not on the choices, just write letter E. Put
your answer with your name, year and section on a clean paper. After which, send a
picture of your answer on my messenger thru personal message. Duration of this
examination is one (1) hour only.
1. In how many ways can you arrange 2 letters from
the word SQUARE?
a. 30
b. 18
c. 12
d. 6
2. A caterer offers 3 kinds of soup, 7 kinds of main dish, 4 kinds of
vegetable dish, and 4 kinds of dessert. In how many possible ways
can a caterer form a meal consisting of 1 soup, 2 main dishes, 1
vegetable dish, and 2 desserts?
a. 1 512
b. 672
c. 336
d. 140
3. Which of the following situations or activities
involve permutation?
a. Forming a committee from the members of a club

b. Matching shirts and pants
c. Assigning telephone numbers to subscribers
d. Forming different triangles out of 5 points on a plane, no three of which are
collinear
4. Given a = P(n,n) and b = P(n,n-1), what can be
concluded about x and y?
a. a > b
b. a = b
c. a = -b
d. a < b
5. James wants to solve a system of equations through elimination by
combining any two equations. The number of equations she has is equal
to the number of variables. He realizes that he has 10 possible ways to
start her solution. How many equations does he have?
a. 6
b. 5
c. 4
d. 3
6. If C(12,r) = 792, which of the following is a
possible value of r?
a. 4
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8
7. There are 11 different food items in a buffet. A customer is asked to
get a certain number of items. If the customer has 462 possible ways as
a result, which of the following did he possibly do?
a. Choose 6 out of 11 items

b. Choose 7 out of 11 items
c. Choose 4 out of 11 items
d. Choose 8 out of 11 items
8. If C(n,r) = 35, which of the following are possible
values of n and r?
a. n = 6, r = 4
b. n = 7, r = 3
c. n = 8, r = 3
d. n = 9, r = 2
9. In a town fiesta singing competition with 12
contestants, in how many ways can the organizer
arrange the first three singers?
a. 1320
b. 990
c. 132
d. 1716
10. Ms. De Leon wants to produce different sets of test questions
for her essay test. If she plans to do this by putting together 3 out
of 5 questions she prepared, how many different sets of questions
could she construct?
a. 80
b. 60
c. 20
d. 10
11. Ms. Ana asked Renz to draw all the diagonals of a certain
polygon on the blackboard. Renz was able to draw 27 diagonals
which his teacher declared correct. What was the given polygon?
a. decagon
b. hexagon
c. Pentagon
d. nonagon
12. What is P(9,5)?
a. 1 520
b. 1 400
c. 336
d. 56
13. Two different arrangements of objects where
some of them are identical are called ________.
a. Circular permutations
b. Distinguishable permutations
c. Unique combinations
d. Circular combinations
14. If P(9,r) = 15 120, what is r?
a. 6
b. 5
c. 4
d. 2
15. In how many ways can 8 people be seated
around a circular table if two of them insist on sitting
beside each other?
a. 360
b. 720
c. 1 440
d. 5 040
16. If w = C(5,2), x = C(5,3), y = C(5,4), and z = C(5,5), and we are
given 5 points on a plane of which no three are collinear, which
expression gives the total number of polygons that can be drawn?
a. x + y
b. x + y + z
c. w+x+y
d. w + x + y + z
17. If a combination lock must contain 4 different
digits, in how many ways can a code be formed
from the digits 0 to 9?
a. 1 000 000
b. 151 200
c. 30 240
d. 10 000
18. In how many ways can a committee of 7 students be
chosen from 9 juniors and 9 seniors if there must be 4
seniors in the committee?
a. 84
b. 210
c. 1 764
d. 10 584
19. Find the number of distinguishable permutations
of the letters of the word PASS.
a. 144
b. 36
c. 12
d. 4
20. How many different 4-digit even numbers can be
formed from the digits 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 if no
repetition of digits is allowed.
a. 120
b. 420
c. 840
d. 1 680
21. In how many ways can 5 men and 3 women
arrange themselves in a row for picture taking if the
men and women must stand in alternate positions?
a. 5 040
b. 720
c. 144
d. 30
22. Choosing a subset of a set is an example of
______.
a. Combination
b. Differentiation
c. Integration
d. permutaion
23. In a room, there are 10 chairs in a row. In how
many ways can 5 students be seated in consecutive
chairs?
a. 720
b. 600
c. 252
d. 120
24. Find the number of distinguishable permutations
of the letters of the word EDUCATED.
a. 1 680
b. 10 080
c. 20 160
d. 40 320
25. If C(n,4) = 126, what is n?
a. 7
b. 8
c. 9
d. 10
26. Which of the following situations does NOT
illustrate combination?
a. Selecting 2 songs from 10 choices for an audition piece

b. Enumerating the subsets of a set
c. Identifying the lines formed by connecting some given points on a plane
d. Fixing the schedule of a group of students who must take exactly 8 subjects
27. How many possible 5-digit (numerical)
passwords are possible for the school email system
if the first digit cannot be zero?
a. 100 000
b. 90 000
c. 10 000
d. 9 000
28. C(n,n) = ___.
a. r
b. n
c. 1
d. Cannot be determined
29. If P(n,4) = 11 880, then n = ___.
a. 8
b. 9
c. 10
d. 12
30. The product of a positive integer n and all the
positive integers less than it is called _____.
a. Powers of n
b. Multiples of n
c. n – factors
d. n factorial

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a. Forming a committee from the members of a club

a. Choose 6 out of 11 items

a. Selecting 2 songs from 10 choices for an audition piece

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