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Mentor Prep

MENTOR PREP PROBABLITY


JEE main - Mathematics
Time Allowed: 1 hour and 30 minutes Maximum Marks: 120

1. Two different families A and B are blessed with an equal number of children. There are 3 tickets to be [4]
distributed amongst the children of these families so that no child gets more than one ticket. If the probability
that all the tickets go to the children of family B is 1

12
, then the number of children in each family is?

a) 4 b) 5

c) 6 d) 3
2. From a group of 10 men and 5 women, four-member committees are to be formed each of which must contain at [4]
least one woman. Then the probability for these committees to have more women than men, is:

a) 3

11
b) 1

11

c) 21

220
d) 2

23

3. In a class of 60 students, 40 opted for NCC, 30 opted for NSS and 20 opted for both NCC and NSS. If one of [4]
these students is selected at random, then the probability that the student selected has opted neither for NCC nor
for NSS is:

a) 1

3
b) 1

c) 2

3
d) 5

4. A box contains 15 green and 10 yellow balls. If 10 balls are randomly drawn, one-by-one, with replacement, [4]
then the variance of the number of green balls drawn is:

a) 6 b) 4

c) d)
12 6

5 25

5. Let A and B be two independent events such that P (A) =


1

3
and P (B) =
1

6
. Then, which of the following is [4]
TRUE?

a) P ( A
) =
1
b) P (
A

) =
1

(A∪B) 4 B 3

c) P ( A

B
) =
2

3
d) P (
A

) =
1

B 3

6. For three events A, B and C, if P (exactly one of A or B occurs) = P(exactly one of B or C occurs) = P (exactly [4]
one of C or A occurs) = 1

4
and P (all the three events occur simultaneously) = 1

16
, then the probability that
atleast one of the events occurs, is

a) b)
7 7

64 16

c) 3

16
d) 7

32

7. Out of 11 consecutive natural numbers if three numbers are selected at random (without repetition), then the [4]
probability that they are in A.P. with a positive common difference, is:

a) 10

99
b) 5

33

1/4
c) 15

101
d) 5

101

8. Box I contains 30 cards numbered 1 to 30 and Box II contains 20 cards numbered 31 to 50. A box is selected at [4]
random and a card is drawn from it. The number on the card is found to be a non-prime number. The probability
that the card was drawn from Box I is:

a) 2

5
b) 2

c) 8

17
d) 4

17

9. Let EC denote the complement of an event E. Let E1, E2 and E3 be any pairwise independent events with P(E1) [4]
C C
E ∩E
> 0 and P(E1 ∩ E2 ∩ E3) = 0. Then P ( is equal to:
2 3
)
E1

a) P(E C
2
) - P(E2) b) P(E3) - P(E C
2
)

c) P(E C
2
) + P(E3) d) C
P (E3 ) − P (E2 )
C

10. If the lengths of the sides of a triangle are decided by the three throws of a single fair die, then the probability [4]
that the triangle is of maximum area given that it is an isosceles triangle, is:

a) 1

15
b) 1

21

c) 1

26
d) 1

27

11. Three boys and two girls stand in a queue. The probability that the number of boys ahead of every girl is atleast [4]
one more that the number of girls ahead of her, is

a) 2/3 b) 1/2

c) 1/3 d) 3/4
12. The probabilities of three events A, B and C are given by P(A) = 0.6, P(B) = 0.4 and P(C) = 0.5. If P (A ∪ B) = [4]
0.8, P (A ∩ C) = 0.3, P (A ∩ B ∩ C ) = 0.2, P (B ∩ C ) = β and P (A ∪ B ∪ C ) = α, where 0.85 ≤ α ≤ 0.95,
then β lies in the interval:

a) [0.25, 0.35] b) [0.36, 0.40]

c) [0.20, 0.25] d) [0.35, 0.36]


13. Let S = {1, 2,... , 20}. A subset B of S is said to be nice, if the sum of the elements of B is 203. Then, the [4]
probability that a randomly chosen subset of S is nice, is

a) 7

20
b) 5

20
2 2

c) d)
6 4

20 20
2 2

14. If A and B are two events such that P (A ∪ B) = P (A ∩ B), then the incorrect statement amongst the following [4]
statements is:

a) A and B are equally likely b) P(A' ∩ B) = 0

c) P(A) + P(B) = 1 d) P(A ∩ B') = 0


15. In a box, there are 20 cards, out of which 10 are labelled as A and the remaining 10 are labelled as B. Cards are [4]
drawn at random, one after the other and with replacement, till a second A-card is obtained. The probability that
the second A-card appears before the third B-card is:

a) 13

16
b) 9

16

c) 15

16
d) 11

16

2/4
16. A die is thrown two times and the sum of the scores appearing on the die is observed to be a multiple of 4. Then [4]
the conditional probability that the score 4 has appeared at least once is:

a) 1

3
b) 1

c) d)
1 1

4 8

17. Four persons can hit a target correctly with probabilities 1

2
,
1

3
,
1

4
and 1

8
respectively. If all hit at the target [4]
independently, then the probability that the target would be hit, is

a) b)
7 25

32 192

c) 25

32
d) 192
1

18. A box A contains 2 white, 3 red, and 2 black balls. Another box B contains 4 white, 2 red, and 3 black balls. If [4]
two balls are drawn at random, without replacement, from a randomly selected box and one ball turns out to be
white while the other ball turns out to be red, then the probability that both balls are drawn from box B is:

a) 9

32
b) 9

16

c) d)
7 7

16 8

19. Four persons independently solve a certain problem correctly with probabilities 1

2
,
3

4
,
1

4
,
1

8
. Then, the [4]
probability that the problem is solved correctly by atleast one of them, is

a) b)
3 235

256 256

c) 253

256
d) 21

256

20. An unbiased coin is tossed 5 times. Suppose that a variable X is assigned the value k when k consecutive heads [4]
are obtained for k = 3, 4, 5, otherwise, X takes the value -1. Then the expected value of X, is:

a) − 3

16
b) −
1

c) 3

16
d) 1

21. Assume that each born child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. If two families have two children each, then [4]
the conditional probability that all children are girls given that at least two are girls; is

a) 1

12
b) 1

11

c) d)
1 1

10 17

22. If two different numbers are taken from the set {0, 1, 2, 3, ......,10}, then the probability that their sum as well as [4]
absolute difference are both multiple of 4, is

a) 7

55
b) 14

55

c) d)
6 12

55 55

23. If 12 identical balls are to be placed in 3 different boxes, then the probability that one of the boxes contains [4]
exactly 3 balls, is
11 10
a) 22( 1
)
b) 55(
2
)
3 3

12 11
c) 220( 1
)
d) 55
(
2
)
3 3 3

24. If there of the six vertices of a regular hexagon are chosen at random, then the probability that the triangle [4]
formed with these chosen vertices is equilateral is

a) b)
1 3

10 20

3/4
c) 1

5
d) 3

10

25. Let A and B be two events such that the probability that exactly one of them occurs 2

5
is and the probability that [4]
A or B occurs is , then the probability of both of them occur together is:
1

a) 0.10 b) 0.20

c) 0.02 d) 0.01
26. A random variable X has the following probability distribution: [4]

X 1 2 3 4 5

P(X) K2 2K K 2K 5K2

Then, P(X > 2) is equal to:

a) b)
23 1

36 36

c) 1

6
d) 7

12

27. The probability that a randomly chosen 5-digit number is made from exactly two digits is: [4]

a) 134

4
b) 135

4
10 10

c) d)
121 150

4 4
10 10

28. Two integers are selected at random from the set {1, 2, .... , 11}. Given that the sum of selected numbers is even, [4]
the conditional probability that both the numbers are even is

a) 2

5
b) 7

10

c) d)
1 3

2 5

29. A bag contains 4 red and 6 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag, its colour is observed and this [4]
ball along with two additional balls of the same colour are returned to the bag. If now a ball is drawn at random
from the bag, then the probability that this drawn ball is red, is

a) 3

10
b) 2

c) d)
1 3

5 4

¯
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
¯
30. Let A and B be two events such that P (A ∪ B ) =
1

6
, P (A ∩ B) =
1

4
and P (A
¯
) =
1

4
, where A
¯
stands for the [4]
complement of the event A. Then, the events A and B are

a) independent and equally likely b) independent but not equally likely

c) equally likely but not independent d) mutually exclusive and independent

4/4

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