Probability
All possible words (with or without meaning) are formed by taking atleast 2 letters (all different) from the letters of the word 'CURVE'. If a word is chosen at random from all the words thus formed, then the probability of getting $a$ letter word is
$1 / 16$
$3 / 8$
$1 / 4$
$3 / 16$
Three numbers are chosen from 1 to 30 . The probability that they are not three consecutive numbers is
$\frac{1}{145}$
$\frac{142}{145}$
$\frac{143}{145}$
$\frac{144}{145}$
If two events $A$ and $B$ are such that $P(\bar{A})=03, P(B)=0.4$ and $P(A \cap \bar{B})=0.5$, then $P(B / A \cup \bar{B})=$
0.25
0.6
0.45
0.8
Two candidates $A$ and $B$ have attended an interview conducted by a recruitment board for two jobs, If the probability that candidate $A$ will get the job is 0.8 and the probability that candidate $B$ will get the job is 0.7 , then the probability that atleast one of them will get the job is
0.96
0.94
0.92
0.9
X denotes the number of times heads that occur in $n$ tosses of a fair coin. If $P(X=4), P(X=5)$ and $P(X=6)$ ate in arithmetic progression. The largest value of $n$ is
7
14
21
28
The probability distribution of a random variable $X$ is as follows. Then, the mean of $x$ is
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| -1 | |
| 0 | |
| 1 | |
| 2 |
$\frac{1}{3}$
$\frac{1}{5}$
$\frac{11}{2}$
$\frac{13}{2}$
Two students appeared simultaneously for an entrance exam. If the probability that the first student gets qualified in the exam is $\frac{1}{4}$ and the probability that the second student gets qualified in the same exam is $\frac{2}{5}$, then the probability that atleast one of them gets qualified in that exam is
$\frac{1}{10}$
$\frac{7}{20}$
$\frac{6}{10}$
$\frac{11}{20}$
For three events $A, B$ and $C$ of a sample space, $P$ (exactly one of $A$ or $B$ occurs ) $=P$ (exactly one of $B$ or $C$ occurs) $=P($ exactly one of $C$ or $A$ occurs $)=\frac{1}{4}$. If probability of all the three events occurring simultaneously is $\frac{1}{16}$, then the probability that atleast one of the events occur is
$\frac{3}{16}$
$\frac{5}{16}$
$\frac{7}{16}$
$\frac{7}{32}$
$A$ bag $P$ contains 4 red and 5 black balls another bag Q contains 3 red and 6 black balls. If one ball is drawn at random from bag $P$ and two balls are drawn from bag $Q$, then the probability that out of the three balls drawn two are black and one is red, is
$\frac{25}{54}$
$\frac{25}{64}$
$\frac{27}{64}$
$\frac{35}{54}$
On every evening, a student either watches TV or reads a book. The probability of watching TV is $\frac{4}{5}$ If he watches TV, the probability that he will fall asleep is $\frac{3}{4}$ and it is $\frac{1}{4}$ when he reads a book. If the student is found to be asleep on an evening the probability that he watched the TV is
$\frac{11}{13}$
$\frac{12}{13}$
$\frac{2}{13}$
$\frac{4}{13}$
Let $X$ be the random variable taking values $1,2, \ldots n$ for a fixed positive integer $n$. If $P(X=k)=\frac{1}{n}$ for $1 \leq k \leq n$, then the variance of $X$ is
$\frac{n^2-1}{12}$
$\frac{n^2+1}{12}$
$\frac{n^2-1}{6}$
$\frac{(n+1)(n+2)}{6}$
A radar system can detect an enemy plane in one out of ten consecutive scans.
The probability that it can detect an enemy plane atleast twice in four consecutive scans is
0.0422
0.0523
0.0535
0.0623
A company representative is distributing 5 identical samples of a product among 12 houses in a row such that each house gets at most one sample. The probability that no two consecutive house get one sample is
$\frac{7}{99}$
$\frac{5}{12}$
$\frac{4}{13}$
$\frac{5}{31}$
- $A$ and $B$ are two independent events of a random experiment and $P(A)>P(B)$.
If the probability that both $A$ and $B$ occurs is $\frac{1}{6}$ and neither of them occurs is $\frac{1}{3}$, then the probability of the occurance of $B$ is
$\frac{1}{4}$
$\frac{1}{3}$
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{3}{8}$
Two dice are thrown and the sum of the numbers appeared on the dice is noted. If $A$ is the event of getting a prime number as their sum and $B$ is the event of getting a number greater than 8 as their sum, then $P(A \cap \bar{B})=$
$\frac{1}{4}$
$\frac{13}{36}$
$\frac{2}{9}$
$\frac{5}{18}$
A family consists of 8 persons. If 4 persons are chosen a random and they are found to be 2 men and 2 women, then the probability that there are equal number of men and women in that family is
$\frac{1}{5}$
$\frac{3}{7}$
$\frac{2}{5}$
$\frac{2}{7}$
The number of trials conducted in a binomial distribution is 6 . If the difference between the mean and variance of this variate is $\frac{27}{8}$, then the probability of getting atmost 2 successes is
$\frac{106}{4^6}$
$\frac{144}{4^6}$
$\frac{126}{4^6}$
$\frac{154}{4^6}$
Let $X \sim B(n, p)$ with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2$. If $\mu=2 \sigma^2$ and $\mu+\sigma^2=3$, then $P(X \leq 3)=$
$\frac{40}{49}$
$\frac{40}{43}$
$\frac{100}{101}$
$\frac{15}{16}$
A basket contains 5 apples and 7 oranges and another basket contains 4 apples and 8 oranges. If one fruit is picked out at random from each basket, then the probability of getting one apple and one orange is
$\frac{1}{6}$
$\frac{7}{18}$
$\frac{17}{36}$
$\frac{19}{36}$
Two cards are drawn from a pack of 52 playing cards one after the other without replacement. If the first card drawn is a queen, then the probability of getting a face card from a black suit in the second draw is
$\frac{11}{663}$
$\frac{11}{1326}$
$\frac{11}{312}$
$\frac{11}{156}$
An item is tested on a device for its defectiveness. The probability that such an item is defective is 0.3 . The device gives accurate result in 8 out of 10 such tests.
If the device reports that an item tested is not defective, then the probability that it is actually defective is
$\frac{2}{15}$
$\frac{3}{29}$
$\frac{3}{31}$
$\frac{4}{51}$
In a school there are 3 sections $A, B$ and $C$. Section $A$ contains 20 girls and 30 boys, section $B$ contains 40 girls and 20 boys and section $C$ contains 10 girls and 30 boys. The probabilities of selecting the section $A, B$ and $C$ are $0.2,0.3$ and 0.5 respectively. If a student selected at random from the school is a girl, then the probability that she belongs to section $A$ is
$\frac{121}{200}$
$\frac{16}{121}$
$\frac{14}{81}$
$\frac{16}{81}$
If the probability distribution of a random variable $X$ is as follows, then the mean of $X$ is
$ \begin{array}{ccccc} \hline \boldsymbol{X}=\boldsymbol{x}_{\boldsymbol{i}} & -1 & 0 & 1 & 2 \\ \hline \boldsymbol{P}\left(\boldsymbol{X}=\boldsymbol{x}_{\boldsymbol{i}}\right) & \boldsymbol{k}^3 & 2 \boldsymbol{k}^3+\boldsymbol{k} & 4 \boldsymbol{k}-10 \boldsymbol{k}^2 & 4 \boldsymbol{k}-1 \\ \hline \end{array} $
$\frac{193}{27}$
$\frac{25}{27}$
$\frac{23}{27}$
$\frac{83}{27}$
If $X$ is a binomial variate with mean $\frac{16}{5}$ and variance $\frac{48}{25}$, then $P(X \leq 2)=$
$\frac{3^6(169)}{5^8}$
$\frac{3^7(71)}{5^8}$
$\frac{3^8}{(43) 5^8}$
$\frac{3^6(158)}{5^8}$
$\frac{1}{5}$
$\frac{3}{4}$
$\frac{4}{5}$
$\frac{1}{4}$
$\frac{125}{143}$
$\frac{18}{143}$
$\frac{60}{143}$
$\frac{65}{143}$
A die is thrown twice. Let A be the event of getting a prime number when the die is thrown first time and $B$ be the event of getting an even number when the die is thrown second time. Then, $P(A / \bar{B})=$
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{2}{3}$
$\frac{1}{5}$
$\frac{3}{5}$
A bag contains 5 balls of unknown colours. There are equal chances that out of these five balls, there may be 0 or 12 or or 3 or 4 or 5 red balls, A ball is taken out from the bag at random and is found to be red. The probability that it is the only red ball in the bag is
$\frac{1}{5}$
$\frac{1}{6}$
$\frac{1}{15}$
$\frac{1}{30}$
If $X \sim B(9, p)$ is a binomial variate satisfying the equation $P(X=3)=P(X=6)$, then $P(X<3)=$
$\frac{23}{256}$
$\frac{65}{256}$
$\frac{5}{256}$
$\frac{45}{512}$
$\frac{21}{764}$
$\frac{14}{745}$
$\frac{7}{744}$
$\frac{7}{736}$
$\frac{8}{35}$
$\frac{27}{35}$
$\frac{1679}{1680}$
$\frac{1}{1680}$
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{5}{6}$
$\frac{11}{23}$
$\frac{13}{35}$
The probability distribution of a discrete random variable $X$ is given below
$ \begin{array}{lllll} \hline X=x & -1 & 0 & 1 & 2 \\ \hline P(X=x) & \frac{1}{3} & \frac{1}{6} & \frac{1}{6} & \frac{1}{3} \\ \hline \end{array} $
Then, the value of $6 \sum\left(x^2\right) P(X=x)-\operatorname{var}(X)=$
$\frac{113}{12}$
$\frac{151}{12}$
$\frac{19}{12}$
$\frac{1}{2}$
If the average number of accidents occurring at a particular junction on a highway in a week is 5 , then the probability that atmost one accident occurs in a particular week is
$\frac{25}{e^4}$
$\frac{24}{e^4}$
$\frac{121}{e^5}$
$\frac{6}{e^5}$
An unbiased coin is tossed 8 times. The probability that head appears consecutively at least 5 times is
$\frac{5}{256}$
$\frac{5}{128}$
$\frac{5}{64}$
$\frac{5}{32}$
A box contains twelve balls of which 4 are red, 5 are green and 3 are white. If three balls are drawn at random simultaneously from the box, then the probability that exactly 2 balls have the same colour is
$\frac{27}{44}$
$\frac{29}{44}$
$\frac{17}{22}$
$\frac{31}{44}$
There are three families $F_1, F_2, F_3 . F_1$ has 2 boys and 1 girl; $F_2$ has 1 boy and 2 girls; $F_3$ has 1 boy and 1 girl. A family is randomly chosen and a child is chosen from that family randomly. If it is known that the child thus selected is a girl, then the probability that she is form $F_2$ is
$\frac{4}{9}$
$\frac{2}{9}$
$\frac{3}{7}$
$\frac{5}{7}$
An urn $A$ contains 4 white and 1 black ball; urn $B$ contains 3 white and 2 black balls and urn $C$ contains 2 white and 3 black balls. One ball is transferred randomly from $A$ to $B$; later one ball is transferred randomly from $B$ to $C$. Finally, if a ball is drawn randomly from $C$, then the probability that it is a black ball is
$\frac{7}{12}$
$\frac{89}{180}$
$\frac{101}{180}$
$\frac{17}{36}$
$\frac{\mathrm{c}}{5}$
$\frac{c}{4}$
$\frac{c+2}{5}$
$\frac{c-2}{7}$
In a binomial distribution, if $n=4$ and $P(X=0)=\frac{16}{81}$, then $P(X=4)=$
$\frac{1}{8}$
$\frac{1}{27}$
$\frac{1}{16}$
$\frac{1}{81}$
$\frac{11}{12}$
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{5}{12}$
$\frac{8}{9}$
If $l, m$ represent any two elements (identical or different) of the set $\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7\}$, then the probability that $l x^2+m x+1>0 \forall x \in R$ is
$\frac{12}{{ }^7 C_2}$
$\frac{22}{7^2}$
$\frac{10}{{ }^7 C_2}$
$\frac{36}{7^2}$
$A$ and $B$ are playing chess game with each other. The probability that $A$ wins the game is 0.6 . the probability that he loses is 0.3 and the probability its draw is 0.1 . If they played three games, then the probability that $A$ wins atleast two games is
$\frac{54}{125}$
$\frac{81}{125}$
$\frac{18}{25}$
$\frac{9}{25}$
$U_1, U_2, U_3$ are three urns. $U_1$ contains 5 red, 3 white, 2 back balls: $U_2$ contains 4 red 4 white, 2 black balls and $U_3$ contains 3 red. 4 white, 3 black balls. If a ball is chosen at random from an urn chosen at random, then the probability of not getting a black ball is
$\frac{7}{30}$
$\frac{23}{30}$
$\frac{2}{5}$
$\frac{11}{30}$
If the probability distribution of a random variable $X$ is as follows, then $P(X \leq 2)=$
$ \begin{array}{cccccc}\hline x_i & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline P\left(X=x_i\right) & 3 k & 5 k & 3 k^2 & 4 k^2+k & 3 k^2 \\ \hline \end{array} $
$\frac{14}{25}$
$\frac{23}{32}$
$\frac{41}{49}$
$\frac{83}{100}$
If $X$ follows poisson distribution with variance 2 , then $P(X \geq 3)=$
$\frac{5}{e^2}$
$\frac{e^2-5}{e^2}$
$5+\frac{2}{e^2}$
$\frac{5-e^2}{4}$
A problem in Algebra is given to two students $A$ and $B$ whose chances of solving it are $\frac{2}{5}$ and $\frac{3}{4}$ respectively.
The probability that the problem is solved if both of them try independently is
$\frac{17}{20}$
$\frac{3}{20}$
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{13}{20}$
Three dice are thrown simultaneously and the sum of the numbers appeared on them is noted. If $A$ is the event of getting a sum greater than 14 and $B$ is the event of getting a sum which is a multiple of 3 , then $P(A \cap \bar{B})+P(\bar{A} \cap B)=$
$\frac{35}{108}$
$\frac{17}{54}$
$\frac{45}{108}$
$\frac{5}{54}$
A manufacturing company of bulbs has 3 units $A, B$ and $C$ which produce $25 \%, 35 \%$ and $40 \%$ of the bulbs respectively. Out of the bulbs produced by $A, B, C$ units, $5 \%, 4 \%$ and $2 \%$ are defective, respectively. If a bulb is chosen at random and found to be defective, then the probability that it is produced by unit $B$ is
$\frac{28}{69}$
$\frac{28}{71}$
$\frac{29}{67}$
$\frac{25}{69}$
The probability distribution of a random variable $X$ is given below
$ \begin{array}{ccccccc} \hline X & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline P\left(X=x_i\right) & \alpha & \alpha & \alpha & \beta & \beta & 0.3 \\ \hline \end{array} $
If $\mu$ and $\sigma^2$ represent the mean and variance of $X$ and $\mu=4.2$, then $\sigma^2+\mu^2=$
20.4
10.8
16.4
21.4

