BADB1014 – QUANTITATIVE METHOD
TUTORIAL 6
Basic Probability
1) A box contains 5 yellow cards, 3 blue cards and 2 red cards. A card is picked at
random from the box. Find the probability of picking either a yellow card or red card.
2) In a group of 80 students, 45 of them are members of the Accounting Club, 25 of them
are members of the Geography Club and 20 of them are members of both Club. If a
student is chosen randomly from the group, what is the probability that the student is,
i) a member of both club?
ii) a member of only one of the two club?
3) A container has 15 sweets of different flavors as follows:
5 orange 3 strawberry
4 lemon 3 mint
If a sweet is picked up at random from the container, find the probability that is,
a) orange or lemon
b) lemon or strawberry or mint
4) A fair coin is tossed twice. Determine the probability of getting tail in both tosses.
5) A bag contains 4 red balls, 2 yellow balls and 6 white balls. A ball is drawn at random
from the bag. Find the probability that is a white ball and not a red ball.
6) A bag contains 4 white balls, 3 red balls and 2 yellow balls. A ball is drawn at random
from the bag. Find the probability that the ball chosen is either red or white.
7) A bag contains 5 red marbles, 7 yellow marbles and 3 white marbles. A marble is picked
at random from the bag. Find the probability that is
i) either red or yellow
ii) either red or white or yellow
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8) The probability that a student is late for school on any day is . Find the probability
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that the student is
a) late for school at least once in two consecutive days
b) never late for school in any two consecutive days
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9) Given the probabilities that each shot fired by Shawn and Siti hits a target are and
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respectively. Each of them fires one shot. Find the probability that neither of them
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hits the target.
10) In the annual club election, there are three candidates which are Shanti, Muna and
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Fiona. The probability of they are selected is , and respectively. If the
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nominated candidates take part in the election, the probability that the election is won
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by all of them are , and respectively.
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a) Draw a tree diagram and find the expected value for each situation.
b) Find the probability Shanti won the election.
c) Find the probability Muna loss the election.
Counting and Principle
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9) Given that the word “PERLIS”. Find the number of ways of arranging,
i) all the letters of the word.
ii) all the letters if the first letter is a vowel.
10) A particular sport team is made up of 6 players. The team is chosen from 8 male
players and 7 female players. Find the number of different teams that can be formed
if every team consists of exactly 4 male players.
