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MATHEMATICS DPP: 4

PROBABILITY

Q1 One card is drawn from each of two ordinary 8

packs of 52 cards. The probability that at least ¯

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one of them is an ace of heart, is (C) 2 (D) 1

(A) 103

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(B) 2704
1 ¯
9
¯
9

(C) 2
(D) 2601

52 2704
Q6 There are 3 bags which can contain 2 white and 3
Q2 A coin is tossed until a head appears or until the black balls, 4 white and 1 black balls and 3 white
coin has been tossed five times. If a head does and 7 black balls respectively. A ball is drawn at
not occur on the first two tosses, then the random from one of the bags and found to be a
probability that the coin will be tossed 5 times is black ball. Then the probability that it was drawn
(A) 1/2 (B) 3/5 from the bag containing the most black balls is
(C) 1/4 (D) 1/3 (A) 7

15
(B) 5

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(C) 3
(D) None of these
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Q3 From a pack of 52 cards two are drawn with
replacement. The probability that the first is Q7 In an entrance test there are multiple choice
diamond and the second is a king is questions. There are four possible answers to
(A) 1
(B) 17
each question of which one is correct. The
26 2704

(C) 1
(D) None of these probability that a student knows the answer to a
52

question is 90%. If he gets the correct answer to

Q4 A box contains 2 black, 4 white and 3 red balls. a question, then the probability that he was
One ball is drawn at random from the box and guessing, is
kept aside. From the remaining balls in the box, (A) 37
(B) 1

40 37

another ball is drawn at random and kept aside (C) 36

(D) 1
37
with the first. This process is repeated till all the ¯
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balls are drawn from the box. The probability that
the balls drawn are in the sequence of 2 black, 4 Q8 A letter is known to have come from either
white and 3 red is TATANAGAR or CALCUTTA. On the envelope, just
(A) 1
(B) 1 two consecutive letters TA are visible. The
1260 7560

(C) 1
(D) None of these probability that the letter has come from
126
CALCUTTA is
Q5 Three houses are available in a locality. Three (A) 4/11 (B) 1/3
persons apply for the houses. Each applies for (C) 5/12 (D) None of these
one house without consulting other. The
Q9 Given that, the events A and B are such that P(A)
probability that all the three apply for the same
= 1/2, P(A∪B) = 3/5 and P(B) = p. Then
house is
probabilities of B if A and B are mutually
(A) (B) 7

exclusive and independent respectively are

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(A) 1

2
,
1

3
(B) 1

5
,
1

(C) 2

3
,
1

3
(D) 1

10
,
1

Q10 In a bolt factory, machines A, B and C

manufacture 25%, 35%, 40% respectively. Of the
total of their output 5%, 4% and 2% are
defective. A bolt is drawn and is found to be
defective. What are the probabilities that it was
manufactured by the machines A, B and C?
(A) 25/69,28/69,16/69
(B) 28/69,25/69,16/69
(C) 16/69,28/69,25/69
(D) 29/69,39/69,49/69

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Answer Key
Q1 (A) Q6 (A)

Q2 (C) Q7 (B)

Q3 (C) Q8 (A)

Q4 (A) Q9 (D)

Q5 (D) Q10 (A)

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Hints & Solutions

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Q1 Text Solution:
Required probability is (no ace of heart)
51 51 (52+51) 103
= 1 − ⋅ = =
52 52 52⋅52 2704

Video Solution:

Q5 Text Solution:
For a particular house being related prob. =1/3
P(all the persons apply for the same house)
1 1 1 1
= ( × × ) × 3 =
3 3 3 9

Q2 Text Solution: Video Solution:

P(tail in 3rd). P(tail in 4th) =
1 1 1
⋅ =
2 2 4

Video Solution:

Q6 Text Solution:
Consider the following events:
A→ Ball drawn is black; E1→ Bag I is chosen;
Q3 Text Solution:
E2→ Bag II is chosen and E3→ Bag III is chosen.
Refer to video solutions
Then
1 A 3
P (E1 ) = (E2 ) = P (E3 ) = ,P ( ) =
Video Solution: 3 E1 5

A 1 A 7
P ( ) = and P ( ) =
E2 5 E3 10

E3
Required probability = P( )
A

1 7
×
3 10 7
= 3 7
=
1 1 1 1 15
× + × + ×
3 5 3 5 3 10

Video Solution:
Q4 Text Solution:
The required probability
2 1 4 3 2 1
= × × × × × × 1 × 1 × 1
9 8 7 6 5 4

1
=
1260

Video Solution:
Q7 Text Solution:

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We define the following events: Video Solution:

A1: He knows the answer.
A2: He does not know the answer.
Then P (A1 )
9 9 1
= , P (A2 ) = 1 − = ,
10 10 10

E E 1
P( ) = 1, P ( ) =
A1 A2 4

∴ Required probability
A2 P(A2 )P(E/A2 ) 1
= P( ) = =
E P(A1 )P(E/A1 )+P(A2 )P(E/A2 ) 37
Q10 Text Solution:
Video Solution: P (E1 ) =
25
, P (A/E1 ) =
5

100 100

35 4
P (E2 ) = , P (A/E2 ) =
100 100

40 2
P (E3 ) = , P (A/E3 ) =
100 100

E1 25×5 125 E2 140

P( ) = = , P( ) =
A 125+140+80 345 A 345

28 E3 80 16
= and P ( ) = =
69 A 345 69

Q8 Text Solution: Video Solution:

(a)
Let E1 denote the event that the letter came from
TATANAGAR and E2 the event that the letter
came from CALCUTTA. Let A denote the event
that the two consecutive alphabets visible on the
envelope are TA. We have P(E1 )=1/2,P(E2
)=1/2,P(A/E1 ) = 2/8, P(A/E2) = 1/7. Therefore, by
Bayes' theorem we have
P (E2 )P (A/E2 ) 4
P (E2 /A) = =
P (E1 )P (A/E1 )+P (E2 )P (A/E2 ) 11

Video Solution:

Q9 Text Solution:
(i) If P (A ∩ B) = 0

3 1 1
∴ p = − =
5 2 10

(ii) I f (A ∩ B) = P (A) P (B)

3 1 p
Then = + p −
5 2 2

1 p
=
10 2

1
p =
5

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