This document provides a practice mid-term exam for Econ 41 (Winter 2014) at UCLA, instructed by Zhipeng Liao. The exam contains 13 multiple choice questions testing probability concepts, including probabilities of events, expected values, binomial and normal distributions, and counting principles. It will be graded based on the number of correct answers selected by the student.
This document provides a practice mid-term exam for Econ 41 (Winter 2014) at UCLA, instructed by Zhipeng Liao. The exam contains 13 multiple choice questions testing probability concepts, including probabilities of events, expected values, binomial and normal distributions, and counting principles. It will be graded based on the number of correct answers selected by the student.
This document provides a practice mid-term exam for Econ 41 (Winter 2014) at UCLA, instructed by Zhipeng Liao. The exam contains 13 multiple choice questions testing probability concepts, including probabilities of events, expected values, binomial and normal distributions, and counting principles. It will be graded based on the number of correct answers selected by the student.
This document provides a practice mid-term exam for Econ 41 (Winter 2014) at UCLA, instructed by Zhipeng Liao. The exam contains 13 multiple choice questions testing probability concepts, including probabilities of events, expected values, binomial and normal distributions, and counting principles. It will be graded based on the number of correct answers selected by the student.
The problems in this exam only have one correct answer among the choices a, b, c and d. You will get 1 credit if your choice is correct and 0 credit otherwise. 1. Suppose that A; B are two events with P (A) = 0:4, P (B) = 0:5 and P (A \ B 0 ) = 0:1. Then: (i) the probability of A0 equals: (a) 0.1
(b) 0.3
(c) 0.4
(d) 0.6
(ii) the probability of A \ B equals:
(a) 0.1
(b) 0.2
(c) 0.3
(d) 0.4
(iii) the probability of A [ B equals:
(a) 0.2
(b) 0.3
(c) 0.4
(d) 0.6
(iv) the probability of A0 \ B 0 equals:
(a) 0.2
(b) 0.3
(c) 0.4
(d) 0.5
(v) the probability of A0 [ B 0 equals:
(a) 0.2
(b) 0.3
(c) 0.7
(d) 0.8
2. Suppose that A; B are two events with P (A) = 0:2 and P (B) = 0:4. (i) Which of the following number could be the possible value of P (A \ B)? (a) 0:1
(b) 0:3
(c) 0:5
(d) 0:6
(ii) Which of the following number could be the possible value of P (A [ B)? (a) 0:2
(b) 0:3
(c) 0:7
(d) 0:6
3. Suppose that you have 6 dierent books to be distributed to 3 students waited in a line. Then: (i) how many possible ways to distribute these 6 books to 3 students with each student having 2 books? (a) 90
(b) 180
(c) 270
(d) 540
(ii) how many possible ways to distribute these 6 books to 3 students with the rst student having 1 book, the second student having 2 books and the third student having 3 books? (a) 15
(b) 60
(c) 120
(d) 360
(iii) how many possible ways to distribute these 6 books to 3 students with the rst student having 1 book, the second student having 1 books and the third student having 4 books? (a) 15
(b) 30
(c) 60
(d) 80
4. Suppose that you have 6 dierent books to be distributed to 3 indierent groups. Then: (iv) how many possible ways to distribute these 6 books with each group having 2 books? (a) 15
(b) 30
(c) 60
(d) 90
(v) how many possible ways to distribute these 6 book with 1 book in the rst group, 2 books in the second group and 3 books in the third group? (a) 15
(b) 60
(c) 120
(d) 240
(vi) how many possible ways to distribute these 6 books with 1 book in the rst group, 1 book in the second group and 4 books in the third group? (a) 15
(b) 30
(c) 60
(d) 80
5. Suppose that n and r are two natural numbers with 0
(i) the value of (a)
r2 =n
(a)
n r
n 1 r 1
n r
(b) r(r
1)=n
(c) r(r
1)=(n
1)
(d) 1
1)=n
(c) r(r
1)=(n
1)
(d) r=n
(b) 1=3
r=n
is:
6. Suppose that A; B are two events with P (A) =
P (A [ B) equals (a) 1=2
n. Then:
is:
(b) r(r
(ii) the value of
r2 =n
n 1 r
(c) 2=3
1 4,
P (BjA) =
1 3
and P (AjB) =
1 2.
Then
(d) 1=4
7. Suppose that A; B are two mutually independent events. Which of the following choice contains two events which are not independent? (a) A0 and B
(b) A0 and B 0
(c) A and B 0
(d) A and A0 \ B
8. Roll two dice and the sum of numbers on the two dice is 7. Then the probability of one die having number 1 equals to (a) 1=2
(b) 1=3
(c) 2=3
(d) 1=4
9. Suppose that A and B are two events with P (A) = 0:2, P (B) = 0:4 and P (A \ B) = 0:1. Then which of the following claim is wrong? (a) P (A [ B) = 0:5 (b) P (A [ B) = 0:6 (c) P (BjA) = 0:5
(d) P (AjB) = 0:25
10. Suppose that X is a random variable with support Sx = f1; 2; 3; 4g p.m.f. f (x) = x 2 Sx . Then
1 4
for any
(i) E[X] equals to:
(a) 1.5
(b) 2.5
(c) 3.5
(d) 4
(c) 7.5
(d) 8
(ii) E[X 2 ] equals to:
(a) 5.5
(b) 6.5
(iii) E[(1 + X)2 ] equals to:
(a) 9.5 (iv) E[2(1
(b) 10.5
(c) 11.5
(d) 13.5
X)2 ] equals to:
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 6
(d) 7
11. Let X be the sample mean of a random sample of size 9 from a distribution with support Sx = f 2; 1; 0; 1; 2g and p.m.f. f (x) = 51 for any x 2 Sx . Then: (i) E[X] equals to: (a) 0
(b) 7/3
(c) 8/3
(d) 4
(ii) E[X ] equals to:
(a) 2/9
(b) 10/9
(c) 9/10
(d) 0.5
12. Suppose that X is a random variable with support Sx = f1; 2; 3g. The C.D.F. of X is dened as F (x) = P (X x) and p.m.f. of X satises f (1) = 0:2 and f (3) = 0:4. (i) f (2) equals to: (a) 0.1
(b) 0.2
(c) 0.4
(d) 0.6
(c) 0.4
(d) 0.6
(c) 0.4
(d) 0.6
(ii) F (2) equals to
(a) 0.1
(b) 0.2
(iii) F (1:5) equals to
(a) 0.1
(b) 0.2
13. Let X be the sample mean of a random sample of size 10 from a Binomial distribution B(10; 0:2). Then: (i) E[X] equals: (a) 1
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