Econ 41 (Winter 2014)
Department of Economics, UCLA
Instructor: Zhipeng Liao
Practice Mid-Term Exam
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
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(ii) the variance of X equals:
(a) 0.1
(b) 0.16
(c) 0.2
(d) 0.25
