Probability
The probability distribution of a random variable X is given below :
| X | 4k | $\frac{30}{7}k$ | $\frac{32}{7}k$ | $\frac{34}{7}k$ | $\frac{36}{7}k$ | $\frac{38}{7}k$ | $\frac{40}{7}k$ | 6k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P(X) | $\frac{2}{15}$ | $\frac{1}{15}$ | $\frac{2}{15}$ | $\frac{1}{5}$ | $\frac{1}{15}$ | $\frac{2}{15}$ | $\frac{1}{5}$ | $\frac{1}{15}$ |
If E(X) = $\frac{263}{15}$, then P(X < 20) is equal to :
$\frac{3}{5}$
$\frac{14}{15}$
$\frac{8}{15}$
$\frac{11}{15}$
A bag contains 10 balls out of which $k$ are red and $(10-k)$ are black, where $0 \leq k \leq 10$. If three balls are drawn at random without replacement and all of them are found to be black, then the probability that the bag contains 1 red and 9 black balls is:
$\frac{7}{110}$
$\frac{7}{11}$
$\frac{7}{55}$
$\frac{14}{55}$
From a lot containing 10 defective and 90 non-defective bulbs, 8 bulbs are selected one by one with replacement. Then the probability of getting at least 7 defective bulbs is
$\frac{73}{10^8}$
$\frac{67}{10^8}$
$\frac{7}{10^7}$
$\frac{81}{10^8}$
Bag A contains 9 white and 8 black balls, while bag B contains 6 white and 4 black balls. One ball is randomly picked up from the bag B and mixed up with the balls in the bag A . Then a ball is randomly drawn from the bag A . If the probability, that the ball drawn is white, is $\frac{\mathrm{p}}{\mathrm{q}}, \operatorname{gcd}(\mathrm{p}, \mathrm{q})=1$, then $\mathrm{p}+\mathrm{q}$ is equal to
24
22
23
21
Two distinct numbers $a$ and $b$ are selected at random from $1,2,3, \ldots, 50$. The probability, that their product $a b$ is divisible by 3 , is
$\frac{272}{1225}$
$\frac{561}{1225}$
$\frac{664}{1225}$
$\frac{8}{25}$
If a random variable $x$ has the probability distribution
$ \begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline x & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\ \hline \mathrm{P}(x) & 0 & 2 \mathrm{k} & \mathrm{k} & 3 \mathrm{k} & 2 \mathrm{k}^2 & 2 \mathrm{k} & \mathrm{k}^2+\mathrm{k} & 7 \mathrm{k}^2 \\ \hline \end{array} $
$ \text { then } \mathrm{P}(3 < x \leq 6) \text { is equal to } $
0.34
0.64
0.22
0.33
Let the mean and variance of 7 observations $2,4,10, x, 12,14, y, x>y$, be 8 and 16 respectively. Two numbers are chosen from $\{1,2,3, x-4, y, 5\}$ one after another without replacement, then the probability, that the smaller number among the two chosen numbers is less than 4 , is :
$\frac{4}{5}$
$\frac{3}{5}$
$\frac{2}{5}$
$\frac{1}{3}$
If A and B are two events such that $P(A) = 0.7$, $P(B) = 0.4$ and $P(A \cap \overline{B}) = 0.5$, where $\overline{B}$ denotes the complement of B, then $P\left(B \mid (A \cup \overline{B})\right)$ is equal to
$\frac{1}{3}$
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{1}{4}$
$\frac{1}{6}$
A bag contains 19 unbiased coins and one coin with head on both sides. One coin drawn at random is tossed and head turns up. If the probability that the drawn coin was unbiased, is $\frac{m}{n}$, $\gcd(m, n) = 1$, then $n^2 - m^2$ is equal to :
64
80
60
72
Let a random variable X take values 0, 1, 2, 3 with P(X=0)=P(X=1)=p, P(X=2)=P(X=3) and E(X2)=2E(X). Then the value of 8p−1 is :
2
0
3
1
The probability, of forming a 12 persons committee from 4 engineers, 2 doctors and 10 professors containing at least 3 engineers and at least 1 doctor, is
A box contains 10 pens of which 3 are defective. A sample of 2 pens is drawn at random and let $X$ denote the number of defective pens. Then the variance of $X$ is
If the probability that the random variable $X$ takes the value $x$ is given by
$P(X=x)=k(x+1) 3^{-x}, x=0,1,2,3 \ldots$, where $k$ is a constant, then $P(X \geq 3)$ is equal to
$ \text { Given three indentical bags each containing } 10 \text { balls, whose colours are as follows : } $
$ \begin{array}{lccc} & \text { Red } & \text { Blue } & \text { Green } \\ \text { Bag I } & 3 & 2 & 5 \\ \text { Bag II } & 4 & 3 & 3 \\ \text { Bag III } & 5 & 1 & 4 \end{array} $
A person chooses a bag at random and takes out a ball. If the ball is Red, the probability that it is from bag I is p and if the ball is Green, the probability that it is from bag III is $q$, then the value of $\left(\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}\right)$ is:Bag 1 contains 4 white balls and 5 black balls, and Bag 2 contains n white balls and 3 black balls. One ball is drawn randomly from Bag 1 and transferred to Bag 2. A ball is then drawn randomly from Bag 2. If the probability, that the ball drawn is white, is $ \frac{29}{45} $, then n is equal to:
5
6
4
3
Bag $B_1$ contains 6 white and 4 blue balls, Bag $B_2$ contains 4 white and 6 blue balls, and Bag $B_3$ contains 5 white and 5 blue balls. One of the bags is selected at random and a ball is drawn from it. If the ball is white, then the probability that the ball is drawn from Bag $B_2$ is:
$\frac{2}{5}$
$\frac{4}{15}$
$\frac{1}{3}$
$\frac{2}{3}$
Let S be the set of all the words that can be formed by arranging all the letters of the word GARDEN. From the set S, one word is selected at random. The probability that the selected word will NOT have vowels in alphabetical order is:
$\frac{1}{4}$
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{1}{3}$
$\frac{2}{3}$
Two number $\mathrm{k}_1$ and $\mathrm{k}_2$ are randomly chosen from the set of natural numbers. Then, the probability that the value of $\mathrm{i}^{\mathrm{k}_1}+\mathrm{i}^{\mathrm{k}_2},(\mathrm{i}=\sqrt{-1})$ is non-zero, equals
Three defective oranges are accidently mixed with seven good ones and on looking at them, it is not possible to differentiate between them. Two oranges are drawn at random from the lot. If $x$ denote the number of defective oranges, then the variance of $x$ is
Let $\mathrm{A}=\left[\mathrm{a}_{\mathrm{ij}}\right]$ be a square matrix of order 2 with entries either 0 or 1 . Let E be the event that A is an invertible matrix. Then the probability $\mathrm{P}(\mathrm{E})$ is :
$A$ and $B$ alternately throw a pair of dice. A wins if he throws a sum of 5 before $B$ throws a sum of 8 , and $B$ wins if he throws a sum of 8 before $A$ throws a sum of 5 . The probability, that A wins if A makes the first throw, is
A board has 16 squares as shown in the figure :

Out of these 16 squares, two squares are chosen at random. The probability that they have no side in common is :
One die has two faces marked 1 , two faces marked 2 , one face marked 3 and one face marked 4 . Another die has one face marked 1 , two faces marked 2 , two faces marked 3 and one face marked 4. The probability of getting the sum of numbers to be 4 or 5 , when both the dice are thrown together, is
If $A$ and $B$ are two events such that $P(A \cap B)=0.1$, and $P(A \mid B)$ and $P(B \mid A)$ are the roots of the equation $12 x^2-7 x+1=0$, then the value of $\frac{P(\bar{A} \cup \bar{B})}{P(\bar{A} \cap \bar{B})}$ is :
A coin is tossed three times. Let $X$ denote the number of times a tail follows a head. If $\mu$ and $\sigma^2$ denote the mean and variance of $X$, then the value of $64\left(\mu+\sigma^2\right)$ is:
Two balls are selected at random one by one without replacement from a bag containing 4 white and 6 black balls. If the probability that the first selected ball is black, given that the second selected ball is also black, is $\frac{m}{n}$, where $\operatorname{gcd}(m, n)=1$, then $m+n$ is equal to :
Three students $S_1, S_2,$ and $S_3$ are given a problem to solve. Consider the following events:
U: At least one of $S_1, S_2,$ and $S_3$ can solve the problem,
V: $S_1$ can solve the problem, given that neither $S_2$ nor $S_3$ can solve the problem,
W: $S_2$ can solve the problem and $S_3$ cannot solve the problem,
T: $S_3$ can solve the problem.
For any event $E$, let $P(E)$ denote the probability of $E$. If
$P(U) = \dfrac{1}{2}$ , $P(V) = \dfrac{1}{10}$ , and $P(W) = \dfrac{1}{12}$,
then $P(T)$ is equal to
$\dfrac{13}{36}$
$\dfrac{1}{3}$
$\dfrac{19}{60}$
$\dfrac{1}{4}$
Functions are formed from the set $A=\left\{a_1, a_2, a_3\right\}$ to another set $B=\left\{b_1, b_2, b_3, b_4, b_5\right\}$. If a function is selected at random, then probability, that it is a non-one function is
$\frac{1}{2}$
$\frac{13}{25}$
$\frac{3}{5}$
$\frac{12}{25}$
$A$ and $B$ are two events of a random experiment such that $P(B)=0.4, P(A \cap \bar{B})=0.5, P(A \cup B)+P\left(\frac{B}{A \cup \bar{B}}\right)=1.15$ then $P(A)=$
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.25
There are two boxes each containing 10 balls. In each box, few of them are black balls and rest are white. A ball is drawn at random from one of the boxes and found that it is black. If the probability that the black ball drawn is from the second box is $\frac{1}{5}$, then number of black balls in the first box is
5 or 10
2 or 7
4 or 8
3 or 6 or 9
In a shelf there are three mathematics and two physics books. A student takes a book randomly. If he randomly takes, successively for three time by replacing the book already taken every time, then the mean of the number of mathematics books which is treated as random variable is
$\frac{3}{2}$
$\frac{129}{125}$
$\frac{9}{5}$
$\frac{174}{125}$
In possion distribution, if $\frac{P(x=5)}{P(X=2)}=\frac{1}{7500}$ and $\frac{P(X=5)}{P(X=3)}=\frac{1}{500}$, then the mean of the distribution is
$\frac{1}{15}$
$\frac{1}{5}$
$\frac{1}{25}$
$\frac{1}{3}$
If two smallest squares are chosen at random on a chess board, then the probability of getting these squares such that they do not have a side in common is
$\frac{1}{18}$
$\frac{5}{36}$
$\frac{17}{18}$
$\frac{7}{36}$
Let $A$ and $B$ be two events in a random experiment . If $P(A \cap \bar{B})=0.1, P(\bar{A} \cap B)=0.2$ and $P(B)=0.5$, then $P(\bar{A} \cap \bar{B})=$
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
An urn contains 7 red, 5 white and 3 black balls. Three balls are drawn randomly one after the other without replacement. If it is known that first ball drawn is red and the second ball drawn is white, then the probability that the third ball drawn is not red is
$\frac{10}{13}$
$\frac{8}{13}$
$\frac{12}{13}$
$\frac{7}{13}$
The range of a discrete random variable $X$ is $\{1,2,3\}$ and the probabilities of its elements are given by $P(X=1)=3 k^3, P(X=2)=2 k^2$ and $P(X=3)=7-19 \mathrm{k}$. Then, $P(X=3)=$
$\frac{2}{3}$
$\frac{2}{9}$
$\frac{1}{9}$
$\frac{4}{9}$
Among every 8 units of a product, one is likely to be defective. If a consumer has order 5 units of that product, then the probability that atmost one unit is defective among them is
$\frac{15}{8}\left(\frac{7}{8}\right)^6$
$\frac{57}{8^8}$
$\frac{36}{8^5}$
$\frac{3}{2}\left(\frac{7}{8}\right)^4$
Out of the given 25 consecutive position integers, three integers are drawn. If the least integer among given 25 integers is an odd number, then the probability that the sum of the three integers drawn is an even number is
$\frac{289}{575}$
$\frac{286}{575}$
$\frac{288}{575}$
$\frac{287}{575}$
If three dice are thrown at a time, then the probability of getting the sum of the numbers on them as a prime number is
$\frac{3}{8}$
$\frac{73}{216}$
$\frac{4}{27}$
$\frac{5}{54}$
Three companies $C_1, C_2, C_3$ produce car tyres. A car manufacturing company buys $40 \%$ of its requirement from $C_1, 35 \%$ from $C_2$ and $25 \%$ from $C_3$. The company knows that $2 \%$ of the tyres supplied by $C_1, 3 \%$ by $C_2$ and $4 \%$ by $C_3$ are defective. If a tyre chosen random from the consignment received is found defective then, the probability that it was supplied by $C_2$ is
$\frac{7}{19}$
$\frac{12}{19}$
$\frac{10}{57}$
$\frac{26}{57}$
If the mean and variance of a binomial distribution are $\frac{4}{3}$ and $\frac{10}{9}$ respectively, then $P(X \geq 6)=$
$\frac{41}{6^8}$
$\frac{741}{6^8}$
$1-\frac{741}{6^8}$
$1-\frac{41}{6^8}$
If a number $x$ is drawn randomly from the set of numbers $\{1,2,3, \ldots ., 50\}$, then the probability that number $x$ that is drawn satisfies the inequation $x+\frac{10}{x} \leq 11$ is
$\frac{4}{5}$
$\frac{9}{50}$
$\frac{4}{25}$
$\frac{1}{5}$
If a coin is tossed seven times, then the probability of getting exactly three heads such that number two heads occur consecutively is
$\frac{5}{64}$
$\frac{5}{32}$
$\frac{5}{128}$
$\frac{35}{128}$
Two cards are drawn randomly from a pack of 52 playing cards one after the other with replacement. If $A$ is the event of drawing a face card in first draw and $B$ is the event of drawing a clubs card in second draw, then $P\left(\frac{\bar{B}}{A}\right)=$
$\frac{11}{12}$
$\frac{12}{13}$
$\frac{3}{4}$
$\frac{1}{4}$
If $X$ is a random variable with probability distribution $P(X=k)=\frac{(2 k+3) c}{3^k}, k=0,1,2, \ldots .$. to $\infty$, then $P(X=3)=$
$\frac{1}{24}$
$\frac{1}{18}$
$\frac{1}{6}$
$\frac{1}{3}$
Let $P=\left[\begin{array}{lll}1 & 2 & 3 \\ 4 & 5 & 6 \\ 7 & 8 & 9\end{array}\right]$ be a matrix. Three elements of this matrix $P$ are selected at random. $A$ is the event of having the three elements whose sum is odd. $B$ is the event of selecting the three elements which are in a row or column. Then, $P(A)+P\left(\frac{A}{B}\right)=$
$\frac{221}{420}$
$\frac{17}{21}$
$\frac{21}{20}$
$\frac{3}{2}$
$A, B_1, B_2, B_3$ are the events in a random experiment. If $P\left(B_1\right)=0.25, P\left(B_2\right)=0.30, P\left(B_3\right)=0.45, P\left(\frac{A}{B_1}\right)=0.05$, $P\left(\frac{A}{B_2}\right)=0.04, P\left(\frac{A}{B_3}\right)=0.03$, then $P\left(\frac{B_2}{A}\right)=$
$\frac{6}{19}$
$\frac{8}{19}$
$\frac{12}{19}$
$\frac{5}{19}$
$A, B$ are the events in a random experiment.
If $P(A)=\frac{1}{2}, P(B)=\frac{1}{3}, P(A \cap B)=\frac{1}{4}$, then $P\left(\frac{A^c}{B^c}\right)+P\left(\frac{A}{B}\right)=$
1
$\frac{4}{5}$
$\frac{11}{8}$
$\frac{7}{3}$
Two persons $A$ and $B$ play a game by throwing two dice. If the sum of the numbers appeared on the two dice is even, A will get $\frac{1}{2}$ point and $B$ will get $\frac{1}{2}$ point.
If the sum is odd, A will get one point and $B$ will get no point. The arithmetic mean of the random variable of the number of points of $A$ is
$1 / 2$
$1 / 4$
1 .
$3 / 4$
5
13
$13 e^{-2}$
$5 e^{-2}$





