Probability
Two balls are drawn at random from a bag containing 5 black balls and 3 white balls. If the random variable $X$ denotes the number of white balls drawn, then the mean of $X$ is
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{5}{8}$
$\frac{3}{4}$
$\frac{3}{8}$
If the mean and variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and $\frac{4}{3}$ respectively, then $P(X=2)=$
$\frac{20}{243}$
$\frac{40}{243}$
$\frac{28}{729}$
$\frac{8}{27}$
4-digit numbers are formed using the digits 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 allowing repetition of the given digits. If a number is chosen at random from those numbers thus formed, then the probability that it is exactly divisible by 3 is
$7 / 36$
$5 / 18$
$5 / 6$
$1 / 3$
If $E_1, E_2 \ldots, E_n$ are an independent events such that $P\left(E_r\right)=\frac{1}{1+r},(r=1,2, \ldots, n)$, then the probability that atleast one of $E_1, E_2, \ldots, E_n$ happens is
$\frac{1}{n+1}$
$\frac{n+1}{n(2 n+1)}$
$\frac{n}{n+1}$
$\frac{1}{2 n+1}$
An urn contains five balls. Two balls are drawn at random and they are found to be white. The probability that all the balls in the urn are white, is
$1 / 2$
$3 / 8$
$2 / 5$
$2 / 3$
If the probability function of a random variable $X$ is given by $P(X=n)=\frac{k(n+1)}{3 n}$ for $n \in \mathbf{N} \cup\{0\}$ where $k$ is a constant, then $P(X<2)=$
$20 / 27$
$20 / 81$
$2 / 27$
$8 / 81$
An observer counts 240 vehicles per hour at a specific location on a highway. Assuming that the arrival of vehicles at the location follows Poisson distribution, the probability that more than two vehicles arrive over a 30 sec time interval is
$\frac{e^2-5}{e^2}$
$\frac{e^2-2}{e^2}$
$\frac{1}{12 e^2}$
$\frac{12-e^2}{e^2}$
If a man throws a die until he gets a number bigger than 3 , then the probability that he gets a 5 in his last throw is
$1 / 3$
$1 / 4$
$3 / 5$
$2 / 3$
A diagnostic test has the probability 0.95 of giving a positive result when applied to a person suffering from a certain disease and a probability 0.10 of giving a positive result when given to a non-sufferer. It is estimated that $0.5 \%$ of the population are suffering from the disease. If this test is now administered to a person from this population about whom there is no information relating to the incidence of this disease and the test gives a positive result, then the probability that he is a sufferer, is
0.9545
0.2194
0.0455
0.9499
Consider the following statements
Assertion (A) If $P_1, P_2, P_3$ are probability of happening of three independent events, then probability of happening of atleast one of them is $1-\left[\left(1-P_1\right)\left(1-P_2\right)\left(1-P_3\right)\right]$
Reason (R) For any three independent events $A, B$ and $C$
$ \begin{array}{r} P(A \cup B \cup C)=P(A)+P(B)+P(C)-P(A) P(B)-P(A) P(C) -P(B) P(C)+P(A) P(B) P(C) \end{array} $
The correct option among the following is
(A) is true, (R) is true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A)
(A) is true, (R) is true but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A)
(A) is true but (R) is false
(A) is false but (R) is true
If probability function of a discrete random variable $X$ is $P(X=r)=r / k, r=1,2,3,4,5$, then $P\left(X=2\right.$ or $\left.X=\frac{k}{3}\right)$, is
$P(X=1$ or $X=6)$
$P\left(X=4\right.$ or $\left.X=\frac{k}{5}\right)$
$P\left(X=\frac{k}{5}\right.$ or $\left.X=5\right)$
$P\left(X=\frac{k}{3}\right.$ or $\left.X=0\right)$
If the probability that an individual will suffer a reaction from an injection of a drug is 0.001 , then the probability that out of 2000 individuals having that injection, more than 2 individuals will suffer a reaction, is
$\frac{5}{e^2}$
$1-\frac{5}{e^2}$
$1-\frac{4}{e^2}$
$\frac{4}{e^2}$
If $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_{15}$ are the events of a random experiment, then which one of the following is true?
$P\left(\bigcap_{i=1}^{15} A_i\right) \leq \sum_{i=1}^{15} P\left(A_i\right)-15$
$P\left(\bigcap_{i=1}^{15} A_i\right) \geq \sum_{i=1}^{15} P\left(A_i\right)-14$
$P\left(\bigcup_{i=1}^{15} A_i\right) \geq \sum_{i=1}^{15} P\left(A_i\right)$
$ P\left(\bigcup_{i=1}^{15} A_i\right) < \sum_{i=1}^{15} P\left(A_i\right)-\sum_{1 \leq i < j<15} P\left(A_i \cap A_j\right) $
In an examination there are four Yes/No type of questions. The probability that the answer by the student to a question without guess to be correct is $2 / 3$. The probability that a student guesses a correct answer is $1 / 2$. A student writes the examination either by without guessing answers to all the 4 questions or by guessing answers to all 4 questions. The probability that he attempt the exam by guessing answers to all questions is $3 / 7$. Given that a student answered at least 3 questions correctly, the probability that he answered all the questions without guessing is
$\frac{13}{15}$
$\frac{405}{1429}$
$\frac{1024}{1429}$
$\frac{2}{15}$
Four boxes $A, B, C$ and $D$ contain 5000, 3000, 2000 and 1000 fuses respectively. The percentages of defective fuses in these boxes are $3 \%, 2 \%, 1 \%$ and $0.5 \%$ respectively. If a fuse selected at random from one of the boxes is found to be defective, then the probability that it has come from box $D$ is
$\frac{1}{13}$
$\frac{4}{65}$
$\frac{1}{65}$
$\frac{2}{13}$
A die is thrown thrice. If getting 1 or 6 in a single throw is considered as success, then the variance of the number of successes is
1
$\frac{5}{3}$
$\frac{2}{3}$
$\frac{2}{9}$
In a hospital, on an average if there are 35 births in a weak, then the probability that there will be less than 3 births in a day, is
$\frac{118}{e^{35}}$
$\frac{37}{2 e^5}$
$\frac{6}{2 . e^{35}}$
$1-\frac{118}{3 e^5}$
If $A$ and $B$ are events of a sample space such that $P(A \cup B)=\frac{3}{4}, P(A \cap B)=\frac{1}{4}$ and $P(\bar{A})=\frac{2}{3}$, then $P(\bar{A} \cap B)$ is
$\frac{5}{12}$
$\frac{3}{8}$
$\frac{4}{5}$
$\frac{5}{4}$
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two events of a sample space such that $P(X)=\frac{1}{3}, P(X / Y)=\frac{1}{2}$ and $P(Y / X)=\frac{2}{5}$ then
$P(X \cap Y)=\frac{1}{5}$
$P(X \cup Y)=\frac{2}{5}$
$P(Y)=\frac{1}{6}$
$P(\bar{X} / Y)=\frac{1}{2}$
Let $A$ and $B$ be not mutually exclusive events. If $P(A)=\frac{4}{9}, P(A \cap \bar{B})=\frac{3}{7}$ then $P\left(\frac{B}{A}\right)=$
0
$\frac{1}{28}$
$\frac{3}{13}$
$\frac{4}{7}$
If $20 \%$ of the bolts produced by a machine are defective then the probability that out of 4 bolts chosen at random, less than 2 bolts will be defective, is
0.2048
0.4096
0.8192
0.1024
In a book consisting of 600 pages, there are 60 typographical errors. The probability that a randomly chosen page will contain at most two errors, is
$\frac{1}{5} \sqrt{e}$
$\frac{1}{e^{0.1}}\left(\frac{221}{200}\right)$
$\frac{1}{e^{0.1}}\left(\frac{111}{200}\right)$
$\frac{1}{5} e^{0.1}$