Probablity (Pyq)
Probablity (Pyq)
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
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) 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) 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
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
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
4/4