Probability

633 Questions
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Evening Shift
If three numbers are randomly selected from the set $\{1,2,3, \ldots \ldots 50\}$, then the probability that they are in arithmetic progression is
A.
$\frac{3}{50}$
B.
$\frac{3}{98}$
C.
$\frac{3}{49}$
D.
$\frac{3}{25}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Evening Shift
The probability that exactly 3 heads appear in six tosses of an unbiased coin, given that first three tosses resulted in 2 or more heads is
A.
$\frac{3}{16}$
B.
$\frac{5}{16}$
C.
$\frac{1}{4}$
D.
$\frac{9}{16}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Evening Shift
A student has to write the words ABILITY, PROBABILITY, FACILITY, MOBILITY. He wrote one word and erased all the letters in it except two consecutive letters. If 'LI' is left after erasing then the probability that the boy wrote the word PROBABILITY is
A.
$\frac{21}{116}$
B.
$\frac{72}{116}$
C.
$\frac{3}{5}$
D.
$\frac{2}{3}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Evening Shift
Two cards are drawn at random one after the other with replacement from a pack of playing cards. If $X$ is the random variable denoting the number of ace cards drawn, then the mean of the probability distribution of X is
A.
2
B.
$\frac{2}{13}$
C.
1
D.
$\frac{1}{13}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Morning Shift
If two dice are thrown, then the probability of getting co-prime numbers on the dice is
A.
$\frac{23}{36}$
B.
$\frac{13}{36}$
C.
$\frac{5}{6}$
D.
$\frac{1}{6}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Morning Shift
If two cards are drawn at random simultaneously from a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards, then the probability of getting a cards having a composite number and a card having a number which is a multiple of 3 is
A.
$\frac{94}{663}$
B.
$\frac{62}{663}$
C.
$\frac{102}{663}$
D.
$\frac{64}{663}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Morning Shift
Bag $P$ contains 3 white, 2 red, 5 blue balls and bag $Q$ contains 2 white, 3 red, 5 blue balls. A ball is chosen at random from $P$ and is placed in $Q$. If a ball is chosen from bag $Q$ at random, then the probability that it is a red ball is
A.
$\frac{9}{50}$
B.
$\frac{13}{45}$
C.
$\frac{16}{55}$
D.
$\frac{12}{35}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 10th May Morning Shift
If the probability distribution of a random variable $X$ is as follow, then the variance of $X$ is
$X=x$ 2 3 5 9
$P(X=x)$ $k$ $2 k$ $3 k^2$ $k$
A.
$\frac{61}{4}$
B.
$\frac{7}{2}$
C.
12
D.
3
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Evening Shift
Among the 5 married couples, if the names of 5 men are matched with the names of their wives randomly, then the probability that no man is matched with name of his wife is
A.
$\frac{9}{20}$
B.
$\frac{1}{5}$
C.
$\frac{11}{30}$
D.
$\frac{17}{60}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Evening Shift
If 3 dice are thrown, the probability of getting 10 as the sum of the three numbers that appeared on the top faces of the dice is
A.
$\frac{1}{9}$
B.
$\frac{7}{72}$
C.
$\frac{5}{36}$
D.
$\frac{1}{8}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Evening Shift
Three similar urns $A, B, C$ contain 2 red and 3 white balls; 3 red and 2 white balls; 1 red and 4 white balls respectively. If a ball selected at random from one of the urns is found to be red, then the probability that it is drawn from urn $C$ is
A.
$\frac{1}{6}$
B.
$\frac{1}{3}$
C.
$\frac{1}{2}$
D.
$\frac{2}{9}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Evening Shift
If a random variable X has the following probability distribution, then the mean of $X$ is $ \begin{array}{c|c|c|c|c} X=x_1 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 5 \\ \hline p\left(X=x_i\right) & 2 k^2 & k & k & k^2 \end{array} $
A.
$\frac{26}{9}$
B.
$\frac{22}{9}$
C.
$\frac{24}{9}$
D.
$\frac{28}{9}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Evening Shift
A A fair coin is tossed a fixed number of times. If the probability of getting 5 heads is equal to the probability of getting 4 heads, then the probability of getting 6 heads is
A.
$\frac{7}{64}$
B.
$\frac{9}{32}$
C.
$\frac{21}{128}$
D.
$\frac{35}{256}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Morning Shift
When 2 dice are thrown, it is observed that the sum of the numbers appeared on the top faces of both the dice is a prime number. Then, the probability of having a multiple of 3 among the pair of numbers thus obtained is
A.
$\frac{8}{15}$
B.
$\frac{11}{36}$
C.
$\frac{5}{9}$
D.
$\frac{5}{12}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Morning Shift
If 2 cards are drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards from the same suit, then the probability of getting a face card and a card having a prime number is
A.
$\frac{8}{13}$
B.
$\frac{2}{13}$
C.
$\frac{8}{221}$
D.
$\frac{32}{221}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Morning Shift
A dealer gets refrigerators from 3 different manufacturing companies $C_1, C_2$ and $C_3 .25 \%$ of his stock is from $C_1, 35 \%$ from $C_2$ and $40 \%$ from $C_3$. The percentages of receiving defective refrigerators from $C_1, C_2$ and $C_3$ are $3 \% 2 \%, 1 \%$ respectively. If a refrigerator sold at random is found to be defective by a customer, then the probability that it is from $\mathrm{C}_2$ is
A.
$\frac{29}{37}$
B.
$\frac{8}{37}$
C.
$\frac{14}{37}$
D.
$\frac{15}{37}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Morning Shift
If the probability that a student selected at random from a particular college is good at mathematics is 0.6 , then the probability of having two students who are good at Mathematics in a group of 8 students of that college standing in front of the college, is
A.
$\frac{2^6 \times 3^2 \times 7}{5^8}$
B.
$\frac{2^6 \times 3^2 \times 7}{5^6}$
C.
$\frac{2^8 \times 3^2 \times 7}{5^6}$
D.
$\frac{2^8 \times 3^2 \times 7}{5^8}$
2024 TS-EAMCET MCQ
TG EAPCET 2024 (Online) 9th May Morning Shift
If on an average 4 customers visit a shop in an hour, then the probability that more than 2 customers visit the shop in a specific hour is
A.
$\frac{e^4-13}{e^4}$
B.
$\frac{4}{e^4}$
C.
$\frac{8}{e^4}$
D.
$\frac{e^4-21}{e^4}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 23th May Morning Shift
When two dice are thrown the probability of getting the sum of the values on them as 10 or 11 is
A.
$\frac{7}{36}$
B.
$\frac{5}{36}$
C.
$\frac{5}{18}$
D.
$\frac{7}{18}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 23th May Morning Shift
It is given that in a random experiment events $A$ and $B$ are such that $P(A)=\frac{1}{4}, P(A / B)=\frac{1}{2}$ and $P(B / A)=\frac{2}{3}$, then $P(B)$ is equal to
A.
$1 / 3$
B.
$2 / 3$
C.
$1 / 2$
D.
$1 / 6$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 23th May Morning Shift

The probability that $A$ speaks truth is $75 \%$ and the probability that $B$ speaks truth is $80 \%$. The probability that they contradict each other when asked to speak on a fact is

A.
$\frac{3}{20}$
B.
$\frac{4}{20}$
C.
$\frac{7}{20}$
D.
$\frac{5}{20}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 23th May Morning Shift
Bag $A$ contains 2 white and 3 red balls and bag $B$ contains 4 white and 5 red balls. If one ball is drawn at random from one of the bags and is found to be red, then the probability that it was drawn from the bag $B$ is
A.
$\frac{23}{54}$
B.
$\frac{25}{51}$
C.
$\frac{25}{52}$
D.
$\frac{27}{55}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 23th May Morning Shift

If the probability distribution of a random variable $X$ is as follows, then $k$ is equal to

$ \begin{array}{c|l|l|l|l} \hline X=x & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline P(X=x) & 2 k & 4 k & 3 k & k \\ \hline \end{array} $

A.
$\frac{1}{10}$
B.
$\frac{2}{10}$
C.
$\frac{3}{10}$
D.
$\frac{4}{10}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 23th May Morning Shift
In a binomial distribution $B(n, p)$ the sum and product of the mean and the variance are 5 and 6 respectively, then $6(n+p-q)$ is equal to
A.
50
B.
53
C.
52
D.
51
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Evening Shift
If each of the coefficients $a, b$ and $c$ in the equation $a x^2+b x+c=0$ is determined by throwing a die, then the probability that the equation will have equal roots, is
A.
$\frac{1}{36}$
B.
$\frac{1}{72}$
C.
$\frac{7}{216}$
D.
$\frac{5}{216}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Evening Shift
$A$ and $B$ throw a pair of dice alternately and they note the sum of the numbers appearing on the dice. $A$ wins if he throws 6 before $B$ throws 7 and $B$ wins if he throws 7 before $A$ throws 6 . If $A$ begins then, the probability of his winning is
A.
$\frac{15}{61}$
B.
$\frac{21}{61}$
C.
$\frac{30}{61}$
D.
$\frac{36}{61}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Evening Shift

$E_1$ and $E_2$ are two independent events of a random experiment such that $P\left(E_1\right)=\frac{1}{2}$ and $P\left(E_1 \cup E_2\right)=\frac{2}{3}$. Then, match the items of List I with the items of List II.

$ \begin{array}{lll} \hline & \text { List I } & \text { List II } \\ \hline \text { (A) } & P\left(E_2\right) & \text { (i) }1/2 \\ \hline \text { (B) } & P\left(E_1 / E_2\right) & \text { (ii) } 5 / 6 \\ \hline \text { (C) } & P\left(E_2 / E_1\right) & \text { (iii) } 1 / 3 \\ \hline \text { (D) } & P\left(E_1 \cup E_2\right) & \text { (iv) } 1 / 6 \\ \hline & & \text { (v) } 2 / 3 \\ \hline \end{array} $

The correct match is
A.
A-iii B-iv C-i D-v
B.
A-iii B-i C-v D-ii
C.
A-i B-v C-ii D-iv
D.
A-v B-i C-iii D-ii
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Evening Shift

A bag contains 4 red and 5 black balls. Another bag contains 3 red and 6 black balls. If one ball is drawn from first bag and two balls from the second bag at random. The probability that out of the three, two are black and one is red, is

A.
$\frac{20}{27}$
B.
$\frac{17}{18}$
C.
$\frac{25}{54}$
D.
$\frac{25}{108}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Evening Shift

If a random variable $X$ has the following probability distribution, then its variance is nearly

$ \begin{array}{clllllll} \hline X=x & -3 & -2 & -1 & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 \\ \hline P(X=x) & 0.05 & 0.1 & 2 K & 0 & 0.3 & K & 0.1 \\ \hline \end{array} $

A.
2.8875
B.
2.9875
C.
2.7865
D.
2.785
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Evening Shift
A radar system can detect an enemy plane in one out of 10 consecutive scans. The probability that it cannot detect an enemy plane at least two times in four consecutive scans, is
A.
0.9477
B.
0.9523
C.
0.9037
D.
0.9063
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Morning Shift

    Three numbers are chosen at random from 1 to 20 , then the probability that the sum of three numbers is divisible by 3 is

A.
$\frac{1}{114}$
B.
$\frac{147}{342}$
C.
$\frac{16}{47}$
D.
$\frac{32}{95}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Morning Shift
Two persons $A$ and $B$ throw three unbiased dice one after the another. If $A$ gets the sum 13, then the probability that $B$ gets higher sum is
A.
$\frac{5}{216}$
B.
$\frac{4}{27}$
C.
$\frac{35}{216}$
D.
$\frac{20}{216}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Morning Shift

8 teachers and 4 students are sitting around a circular table at random, then the probability that no two students sit together is

A.
$\frac{7}{88}$
B.
$\frac{14}{33}$
C.
$\frac{8}{33}$
D.
$\frac{7}{33}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Morning Shift

A bag contains 6 balls. If three balls are drawn at a time and all of them are found to be green, then the probability that exactly 5 of the balls in the bag are green is

A.
$\frac{4}{35}$
B.
$\frac{5}{35}$
C.
$\frac{2}{7}$
D.
$\frac{1}{7}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Morning Shift

In a binomial distribution the difference between the mean and standard deviation is 3 and the difference between their squares is 21 , then $P(x=1): P(x=2)=$

A.
$2: 1$
B.
$1: 2$
C.
$1: 3$
D.
$3: 1$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 22th May Morning Shift

When an unfair dice is thrown the probability of getting a number $k$ on it is $P(X=k)=k^2 P$, where $k=1,2,3,4,5,6$ and $X$ is the random variable denoting a number on the dice, then the mean of X is

A.
25
B.
5
C.
$\frac{441}{9}$
D.
$\frac{441}{91}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Evening Shift
If all the letters of the word 'SENSELESSNESS' are arranged in all possible ways and an arrangement among them is chosen at random, then the probability that all the E's come together in that arrangement is
A.
$\frac{1}{990}$
B.
$\frac{2}{143}$
C.
$\frac{1}{120}$
D.
$\frac{1}{429}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Evening Shift
If two numbers $x$ and $y$ are chosen one after the other at random with replacement from the set of number $\{1,2,3, \ldots \ldots 10\}$. Then, the probability that $\left|x^2-y^2\right|$ is divisible by 6 is
A.
$\frac{8}{25}$
B.
$\frac{6}{25}$
C.
$\frac{3}{10}$
D.
$\frac{13}{50}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Evening Shift
Bag $A$ contains 3 white and 4 red balls, bag $B$ contains 4 white and 5 red balls and bag $C$ is contains 5 white and 6 red balls. If one ball is drawn at random from each of these three bags, then the probability of getting one white and two red balls is
A.
$\frac{268}{693}$
B.
$\frac{310}{693}$
C.
$\frac{38}{99}$
D.
$\frac{26}{63}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Evening Shift
Two persons $A$ and $B$ throw a pair of dice alternately until one of them gets the sum of the numbers appeared on the dice as 4 and the person who gets this result first is declared as the winner. If $A$ starts the game, then the probability that $B$ wins the game is
A.
$\frac{11}{23}$
B.
$\frac{1}{2}$
C.
$\frac{5}{11}$
D.
$\frac{8}{17}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Evening Shift
An urn contains 3 black and 5 red balls. If 3 balls are drawn at random from the urn, the mean of the probability distribution of the number of red balls drawn is
A.
$\frac{45}{28}$
B.
$\frac{15}{8}$
C.
$\frac{2}{5}$
D.
$\frac{3}{2}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Evening Shift
If $X \sim B(5, p)$ is a binomial variate such that $P(X=3)=P(X=4)$, then $P(|X-3|<2)=$
A.
$\frac{242}{243}$
B.
$\frac{201}{243}$
C.
$\frac{200}{243}$
D.
$\frac{121}{243}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Morning Shift
If 12 dice are thrown at a time, then the probability that a multiple of 3 does not appear on any dice is
A.
$\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^{12}$
B.
$\left(\frac{1}{3}\right)^{12}$
C.
$\left(\frac{2}{3}\right)^{12}$
D.
$\left(\frac{5}{6}\right)^{12}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Morning Shift
In a class consisting of 40 boys and 30 girls. $30 \%$ of the boy and $40 \%$ of the girls are good at Mathematics. If a student selected at random from that class is found to be a girl, then the probability that she is not good at Mathematics is
A.
$\frac{3}{5}$
B.
$\frac{2}{5}$
C.
$\frac{3}{10}$
D.
$\frac{7}{10}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Morning Shift
A basket contains 12 apples in which 3 are rotten. If 3 apples are drawn at random simultaneously from it, then the probability of getting atmost one rotten apple is
A.
$\frac{34}{55}$
B.
$\frac{48}{55}$
C.
$\frac{21}{55}$
D.
$\frac{42}{55}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Morning Shift
7 coins are tossed simultaneously and the number of heads turned up is denoted by random variable $X$. If $\mu$ is the mean and $\sigma^2$ is the variance of $X$, then $\frac{\mu \sigma^2}{P(X=3)}=$
A.
$\frac{56}{5}$
B.
$\frac{84}{5}$
C.
$\frac{112}{5}$
D.
$\frac{224}{5}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 21th May Morning Shift
A manufacturing company noticed that $1 \%$ of its products are defective. If a dealer order for 300 items from this company, then the probability that the number of defective items is atmost one is
A.
$\frac{3}{e^3}$
B.
$\frac{2}{e^2}$
C.
$\frac{3}{e^2}$
D.
$\frac{4}{e^3}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 20th May Evening Shift
If five-digit numbers are formed from the digits $0,1,2,3,4$ using every digit exactly only once. Then, the probability that a randomly chosen number from those numbers is divisible by 4 is
A.
$\frac{5}{16}$
B.
$\frac{3}{16}$
C.
$\frac{3}{8}$
D.
$\frac{7}{16}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 20th May Evening Shift
Two natural numbers are chosen at random from 1 to 100 and are multiplied. If $A$ is the event that the product is an even number and $B$ is the event that the product is divisible by 4 , then $P(A \cap \bar{B})=$
A.
$\frac{25}{198}$
B.
$\frac{49}{198}$
C.
$\frac{25}{99}$
D.
$\frac{50}{99}$
2024 AP-EAPCET MCQ
AP EAPCET 2024 - 20th May Evening Shift
A box $P$ contains one white ball, three red ball and two black balls. Another box $Q$ contains two white balls, three red balls and four black balls. If one ball is drawn at random from each one of the two boxes, then the probability that the balls drawn are of different colour is
A.
$\frac{29}{54}$
B.
$\frac{25}{42}$
C.
$\frac{35}{54}$
D.
$\frac{39}{52}$