ASSIGNMENT 5 (COUNTING METHODS)

1. Two dice were thrown, one red and one green. How many results that:
a) ended with the number 4 or 11.
b) ended with at least one dice shows the number 3.
c) ended with the red dice shows the number 3.
d) ended with none of the outcome of the dice shows the number 3.
2. How many 8-bit string that has bit-1 only one?
3. How many 8-bit string that has bit-1 at least one?
4. How many 8-bit string that begins and ends with bit-1?
5. How many 8-bit string can be formed with bit-1 is either at second bit or fourth bit or
both?
6. How many plates consisting of three letters (A-Z) and 4 digit (0-9) can be formed if:
a) Repetation is allowed.
b) Repetation is not allowed.
7. In a birthday party, there are four types of drinks, 10 kinds of cakes and 8 types of pizza. A
guest can choose one item from each category. How many ways the meal can be served?
8. A set of letter, VWXYZ is used to form strings with three letters. How many ways:
a) To form a string begins with the letter X if repetition is not allowed?
d) To form a string contains the letter X if repetition is not allowed?
f) To form a string that does not include the letter X if repetition is not allowed?
9. Suppose there are 18 students from the Department of Biology and 325 students from the
Department of Physics who have registered to attend classes in Semester May 2005.
a) How many ways to select two students; one from the Department of Biology and one
from the Department of Physics.
b) How many ways to select one student from those who enrolled in Semeter May 2005?
10. There are 10 questions are provided, where each question has 4 options of answers.
a) How many ways a student can answer if he should answer all these questions?
b) How many ways a student can answer if he does not necessarily answer all the
questions?
11. There are fifty micro-processors and four of them damaged.
a) How many ways we can choose a set of four micro-processors?
b) How many ways we can choose four micro-processors that contain at least one
damaged?

ASSIGNMENT 6 (PROBABILITY THEORY)

1. A fair die is rolled 3 times and the outcome of each roll is recorded. What is the
possibility to get the same number for the outcomes or none of the outcomes contain
number 3?
2. Assumed that there are 10 men and 15 women working in the Deans office of Faculty of
Computer Science and Information System.
a) How many combinations to form a committee of 3 men and 3 women?
b) How many combinations to form a group of 6 peoples which contains at least 1
woman?
3. Assumed that there are 100 participants in a lucky draw competition. There are 3 prizes
being offered which are the grand prize, second prize and third prize. The winners are
randomly selected. What is the probability that Jamilah can win one of the prizes, if she
participates in the competition?
4. If A and B are events of mutually exclusive and P(A)=0.4 and P(B)=0.5, find:
P( A B)
a)
P(A' )
b)
P( A' B)
c)
5. There are 2 bags which the first bag contains 4 white balls and 3 black balls, while the
second bag contains 3 white balls and 5 black balls. A ball is randomly picked, what is
the probability that the picked ball is a black ball from the second bag?
6. Supposed that the probability for a person to have a headache is 0.01. The probability
that the person is having a fever when he is having the headache is 0.4. The probability
of the person to have a fever is 0.02. Find the probability that the person is having a
headache, if given that he is having the fever at the same time.
7. A company bought printers from 3 suppliers and find that there are defective printers.
Table below shows the outcomes for each supplier:
Supplier

AA

BB

CC

Percentage of
purchasing

40

25

35

Percentage of

defective
Find the probability that a defective printer is bought from supplier CC.
8. Syarikat Rakom Jaya purchased computers from 3 suppliers which are RinRan, DotCom
and Alpha. Table below shows the percentage of purchasing and their percentage of
defective computers for each supplier.
Supplier

RinRa
n

DotCo
m

Alph
a

Percentage of
purchasing

55

10

35

Percentage of
defective

Let,
A is the event of computer purchased from RinRan
B is the event of computer purchased from DotCom
C is the event of computer purchased from Alpha
D is the event of defective computer
Find:
P(A), P(B) and P(C)
P(D|A), P(D|B) and P(D|C)
P(D)
P(A|D), P(B|D) and P(C|D)