VWO / HAVO Centraal Examen (Netherlands) · Mathematics

Probability, Combinatorics and Statistics

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All 11 questions

  1. A standard fair six-sided die is rolled 4 times. What is the probability of obtaining at least one six?
  2. In a class of 30 students, 18 take physics, 15 take chemistry, and 8 take both subjects. What is the probability that a randomly chosen student takes neither physics nor chemistry?
  3. What is the variance of a random variable that follows a binomial distribution with trials and success probability ?
  4. How many distinct 4-digit PIN codes can be formed using the digits 0 to 9 if no digit may be repeated?
  5. A medical diagnostic test has a sensitivity (true positive rate) and a specificity (true negative rate). If the disease prevalence is , what is the probability that a person who tes…
  6. What is the median of the data set: ?
  7. If the correlation coefficient between two variables and is , how should this relationship be interpreted?
  8. In a continuous probability density function defined on the interval , what must the value of the constant be for to be a valid probability density function?
  9. What happens to the margin of error of a confidence interval for a population mean when the sample size is quadrupled (multiplied by 4), holding confidence level constant?
  10. Two cards are drawn sequentially without replacement from a standard well-shuffled 52-card deck. What is the probability that both cards are Aces?
  11. Under a two-tailed hypothesis test with significance level , what is the critical z-value threshold for rejecting the null hypothesis?

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