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Arizona State UniversityMath 119 Finite Mathematics Test 3 A

Graded test will be returned on 12/4/02.

Dr. S. Takahashi

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Read the following before you take this test.

1)Maximum total points for this test is 100.

2)You have 100 minutes to complete. Your score is reduced by one point per each minute exceeded.

3)Show all of your work. No work No credit

4)No need to show work for true-or-false questions.

5)Make sure to define events wherever applicable.

6)Simplify solutions as far as possible. Do not leave solutions in symbolic forms, such as.

7)Use only Casio CFX-9850GB, TI-81, 83, 86 or ordinary non-graphing calculators, if needed.

8)Use scratch paper provided by the proctor and attach to the test.

9)Make sure you indicate your solutions by circling or boxing your final answers.

10)Before you start, make sure you have all 12 questions.

11)No rubber-necking.

Good luck.

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Show all work, except for True or False questions. Throughout probability of an event .

  1. True or False: (2 points each)

ア）If two events are independent, then they must be mutually exclusive. ______

イ）Ordered arrangements of distinct objects are called combinations.

______

ウ）If and are two events in a sample space , then

______

エ）The identity does not hold for equiprobable sample space.

______

オ）If events andare independent, then

______

  1. Answer the following questions. (4 points each)

①Calculate the number of ways you can form a baseball team, consisting of 9 players, out of 17 athletes in class, provided which position each player plays is not an issue.

②Calculate the number of ways you can form a baseball team, consisting of 9 players, out of 17 athletes in class, provided which position each player plays is an issue.

③The Student Aptitude Committee has 6 faculty members, 2 administrative members, and 3 student members. Calculate the number of subcommittee of 3 faculty members, 1 administrator, and 1 student that you can generate.

④Calculate the number of different 7-letter words, real or unreal, that you can generate out of English alphabet if repeated letters are not allowed

  1. You are to toss a fair coin 6 times. Answer the following questions. (3 points each)

ア) Calculate the number of possible distinct outcomes for this experiment.

イ) Calculate the number of distinct outcomes in which you get at most two tails.

ウ) Calculate the number of distinct outcomes in which you get at least one tail.

  1. Consider a word“committee”. Answer the following two questions. (5 points each)

イ）Calculate the number of distinct words, real or unreal, that can be generatedfrom the word.

ロ）Calculate the number of distinct words, real or unreal, that can be generated from the word, provided that the letter “i” precedes the letter “o”

  1. Suppose you are conducting an experiment of tossing a fair coin and then rolling a fair die. (9 pts)

イ）Find the sample space for this experiment.

ロ） Find the event that the coin comes up heads.

ハ） Calculate the probability that the coin comes up heads.

  1. Let and be two events in a sample space . State, in a sentence or two, the difference between and. Can they be equal? Explain. (5 points)
  1. Parmema is taking two courses: comparative literature and differential geometry. His analysis, which is quite accurate, tells that he has 0.6 probability of passing comparative literature course and 0.3 probability of passing differential geometry course. He is also certain that probability of passing at least one of them is 0.8. (10 points total)

ア）Calculate the probability of him passing both courses.

イ）He has decided to drop differential geometry if his probability of passing the course is less than 0.5. Should he drop differential geometry course, if he realizes that his probability of passing both courses is now 0.2?

  1. Calculate the probability that the 5-digit zip code contains the number “8”. (5 points)

9. The box contains 59 tickets of distinct values, one of which is the winning ticket of $1,000,000. A participant is to draw three tickets from the box. Calculate the probability that one of the three tickets is the winning ticket. (5 points)

  1. In the swim meet, the odds for a senior swimmer to win are 1 to 2, and the odds for a sophomore swimmer to win are 1 to 3. Calculate the probability and the odds that senior or sophomore wins the meet, provided a tie is impossible. (6 points)
  1. In a supply container, there are 7 green pens, 8 black pens and 5 red ones. Two pens are taken randomly in sequence without replacement. Calculate the probability that the first pen is green and the second one is red. (5 points)
  1. The urn contains12 balls, 5 yellow, 4 white and 3 purple. Suppose you draw one ball from the urn, put it back, and then draw another. Answer the following questionswithout using the tree diagram(s).

(10 points total)

ア) Calculate the probability that both balls are purple.

イ） Calculate the probability that one of the balls is purple.

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