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Chapter 13 Probability
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Question 1.
The variance of random variable X i.e. σx2 or var (X) is equal to
(a) E(X2) + [E(X2)2]2
(b) E(X) – [E(X2)]
(c) E(X2) – [E(X)]2
(d) None of these
Answer:
(c) E(X2) – [E(X)]2

Question 2.
A coin is biased so that the head is 3 times likely to occur as a tail. If the coin
is tossed twice, then find the probability distribution of the number of tails.

Answer:

Question 3.
A pair of the die is thrown 4 times. If getting a doubled is considered a
success, then find the probability distribution of a number of successes.

Answer:

Question 4.
Find the probability of throwing atmost 2 sixes in 6 throws of a single die.
3
(a) 35

18
(
5

6
)
4
(b) 35

18
(
5

6
)
4
(c) 18

29
(
2

3
)
3
(d) 18

29
(
2

3
)

Answer:
4
(b) 35

18
(
5

6
)

Question 5.
A die is thrown again and again until three sixes are obtained. Find the
probability of obtaining third six in the sixth throw of the die.
(a) 625

23329

(b) 621

25329

(c) 625

23328

(d) 620

23328

Answer:
(c) 625

23328

Question 6.
Ten eggs are drawn successively with replacement from a lot containing 10%
defective eggs. Then, the probability that there is atleast one defective egg is
10

(a) 1 − 7
10
10
10

(b) 1 + 7
10
10
10

(c) 1 + 9
10
10
10

(d) 1 − 9
10
10

Answer:
10

(d) 1 − 9
10
10

Question 7.
The probability of a man hitting a target is 1

4
. How many times must he fire
so that the probability of his hitting the target at least once is greater than 2

?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1
Answer:
(a) 4

Question 8.
Eight coins are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of getting atleast
6 heads.
(a) 31

128

(b) 37

256

(c) 37

128

(d) 31

256

Answer:
(b) 37

256

Question 9.
A bag contains 6 red, 4 blue and 2 yellow balls. Three balls are drawn one
by one with replacement. Find the probability of getting exactly one red ball.
(a) 14
(b) 3

(c) 3

(d) 1

Answer:
(b) 3

Question 10.
Eight coins are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting
atleast 3 heads?
(a) 37

246

(b) 21

256

(c) 219

256

(d) 19

246

Answer:
(c) 219

256

Question 11.
For the following probability distribution, the standard deviation of the
random variable X is

(a) 0.5
(b) 0.6
(c) 0.61
(d) 0.7
Answer:
(d) 0.7

Question 12.
A bag contains 5 red and 3 blue balls. If 3 balls are drawn at random
without replecement the probability of getting exactly one red ball is
(a) 45

196

(b) 135

392

(c) 15

56

(d) 15

29

Answer:
(c) 15

56

Question 13.
A die is thrown and card is selected a random from a deck of 52 playing
cards. The probability of gettingan even number on the die and a spade card
is
(a) 12
(b) 1

(c) 1

(d) 3

Answer:
(c) 1

Question 14.
A box contains 3 orange balls, 3 green balls and 2 blue balls. Three balls are
drawn at random from the box without replacement. The probability of
drawing 2 green balls and one blue ball is
(a) 3

28

(b) 2

21

(c) 1

28

(d) 167

168

Answer:
(a) 3

28

Question 15.
A flashlight has 8 batteries out of which 3 are dead. If two batteries are
selected without replacement and tested, the probability that both are deal
is
(a) 33

56

(b) 9

64

(c) 1

14

(d) 3

28

Answer:
(d) 3

28

Question 16.
Two dice are thrown. If it is known that the sum of numbers on the dice was
less than 6, the probability of getting a sum 3, is
(a) 1

18

(b) 5

18

(c) 1

(d) 2

Answer:
(c) 1

Question 17.
Two cards are drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards with
replacement. The probability, that both cards are queens, is
(a) 1

13
×
1

13

(b) 1

13
+
1

13

(c) 1

13
×
1

17

(d) 1

13
×
4

51

Answer:
(a) 1

13
×
1

13

Question 18.
The probability of guessing correctly at least 8 out of 10 answers on a true-
false type examiniation is
(a) 7

64

(b) 7

128

(c) 45

1024

(d) 7

41

Answer:
(b) 7

128

Question 19.
The probability distribution of a discrete random variable X is given below:

The value of k is
(a) 8
(b) 16
(c) 32
(d) 48
Answer:
(c) 32

Question 20.
For the following probability distribution:

E(X) is equal to
(a) 0
(b) -1
(c) -2
(d) -1.8
Answer:
(d) -1.8
Question 21.
For the following probability distribution

E(X2) is equal to
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 10
Answer:
(d) 10

Question 22.
Suppose a random variable X follows the binomial distribution with
parameters n and p, where 0 < p < 1. If p(x = r) / P(x = n – r) is dindependent
of n and r, then p equals
(a) 12
(b) 1

(c) 1

(d) 1

Answer:
(a) 12

Question 23.
A box has 100 pens of which 10 are defective. What is the probability that
out of a sample of 5 pens drawn one by one with replacement at most one is
defective?
5
(a) ( 10
9
)
4
(b) 1

2
(
9

10
)
5
(c) 1

2
(
9

10
)
5 4
(d) ( 10 )9
+
1

2
(
9

10
)

Answer:
5 4
(d) ( 10
9
) +
1

2
(
9

10
)

Question 24.
P has 2 children. He has a son, Jatin. What is the probability that Jatin’s
sibling is a brother?
(a) 1

(b) 1

(c) 2

(d) 1

Answer:
(a) 1

Question 25.
If A and B are 2 events such that P(A) > 0 and P (b) ≠ 1, then P (A
¯
/B̄) =

(a) 1 – P(A|B)
(b) 1 − P (A/B̄)
1−P (A∪B)
(c) P (B)
¯
1(A )
(d) P (B)

Answer:
(b) 1 − P (A/B̄)

Question 26.
If two events A and B area such that P (A
¯
) =0.3, P(B) = 0.4 and

P (B|A ∪ B̄) =

(a) 1

(b) 1

(c) 2

(d) 1

Answer:
(d) 14

Question 27.
If E and F are events such that 0 < P(F) < 1, then
(a) P (E|F ) + P (Ē |F ) = 1
(b) P (E|F ) + P (E|F¯) = 1
(c) P (Ē |F ) + P (E|F¯) = 1
(d) P (E|F¯) + P (Ē |F¯) = 0
Answer:
(a) P (E|F ) + P (Ē |F ) = 1
Question 28.
P(E ∩ F) is equal to
(a) P(E) . P(F|E)
(b) P(F) . P(E|F)
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer:
(c) Both (a) and (b)

Question 29.
If three events of a sample space are E, F and G, then P(E ∩ F ∩ G) is equal to
(a) P(E) P(F|E) P(G|(E ∩ F))
(b) P(E) P(F|E) P(G|EF)
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer:
(c) Both (a) and (b)

Question 30.
Two cards are drawn at random one by one without replacement from a
pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that both the cards are black.
(a) 21

104

(b) 25

102

(c) 23

102

(d) 24

104

Answer:
(b) 25

102

Question 31.
A bag contains 20 tickets, numbered 1 to 20. A ticket is drawn and then
another ticket is drawn without replacement. Find the probability that both
tickets will show even numbers.
(a) 9

38

(b) 16

35

(c) 7

38

(d) 17

30

Answer:
(a) 9

38

Question 32.
Two balls are drawn one after another (without replacement) from a bag
containing 2 white, 3 red and 5 blue balls. What is the probability that
atleast one ball is red?
(a) 7

15

(b) 8

15

(c) 7

16

(d) 5

16

Answer:
(b) 8

15

Question 33.
Let A and B be independent events with P(A) = 1/4 and P(A ∪ B) = 2P(B) –
P(A). Find P(B)
(a) 14
(b) 3

(c) 2

(d) 2

Answer:
(d) 2

Question 34.
Two events A and B will be independent, if
(a) A and B are mutually exclusive
(b) P(A’ ∩ B’) = [1 – P(A)] [1 – P(B)]
(c) P(A) = P(B)
(d) P(A) + P(B) = 1
Answer:
(c) P(A) = P(B)
Question 35.
If A and B are two independent events such that P (A
¯
∩ B) =
2

15
and
P (A ∩ B̄) =
1

6
, then find P(A) and P (B) respectively.
(a) 5

4
,
4

(b) 1

5
,
1

(c) 1

6
,
1

(d) 1

7
,
1

Answer:
(a) 5

4
,
4

Question 36.
If A and B are two independent events, then the probability of occurrence of
at least of A and B is given by
(a) 1 – P(A) P(b)
(b) 1 – P(A) P(B’)
(c) 1 – P(A’) P(B’)
(d) 1 – P(A’) P(b)
Answer:
(c) 1 – P(A’) P(B’)

Question 37.
If A and B are two indendent events such that P (A
¯
) = 0.75, P(A ∪ B) = 0.65

and P(b) = P, then find the value of P.

(a) 9

14

(b) 7

15

(c) 5

14

(d) 8

15

Answer:
(d) 8

15

Question 38.
If A and Bare events such that P(A) = 1

3
, P(b) = 1

4
and P(A ∩ B) = 1

12
, then find
P(not A and not B).
(a) 14
(b) 1

(c) 2

(d) 1

Answer:
(b) 12

Question 39.
Two cards are drawn successively from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find
the probability that one is a red card the other is a queen.
(a) 103

1326

(b) 101

1326

(c) 101

1426

(d) 103

1426

Answer:
(b) 101

1326

Question 40.
Given that, the events A and B are such that P(A) = 1

2
, P(A ∪ B) = 3

5
and P(b)
= P. Then probabilities of B if A and B are mutually exclusive and
independent respetively are
(a) 1

2
,
1

(b) 1

5
,
1

(c) 2

3
,
1

(d) 1

10
,
1

Answer:
(d) 1

10
,
1

Question 41.
Two cards from an ordinary deck of 52 cards are missing. What is the
probability that a random card drawn from this deck is a spade?
(a) 3

(b) 2

(c) 1

(d) 1

Answer:
(d) 14

Question 42.
A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports
that it is a six. Find the probability that it is actually a six.
(a) 5

(b) 3

(c) 7

(d) 1

Answer:
(b) 3

Question 43.
A bag contains 4 balls. Two balls are drawn at random and are found to be
white. What is the probability that all balls are white?
(a) 2

(b) 3

(c) 4

(d) 1

Answer:
(b) 3

Question 44.
A bag contains 3 green and 7 white balls. Two balls are drawn one by one at
random without replacement. If the second ball drawn is green, what is the
probability that the first ball was drawn in also green?
(a) 5

(b) 4

(c) 2

(d) 8

Answer:
(c) 2

Question 45.
A card from a pack of 52 cards is lost. From the remaining cards of the pack,
two cards are drawn and are found to be both clubs. Find the probability of
the lost card being a club.
(a) 11

50

(b) 17

50

(c) 13

50

(d) 19

50

Answer:
(a) 11

50

Question 46.
A random variable X has the following distribution.

For the event E = {X is prime number} and F = {X < 4}, P(E ∪ F) =

(a) 0.87
(b) 0.77
(c) 0.35
(d) 0.50
Answer:
(b) 0.77

Question 47.
A random variable X has the following probability distribution:

Find P(X < 3), P(X ≥ 4), P(0 < X < 5) respectively.
(a) 1

6
,
11

24
,
33

48

(b) 1

6
,
33

48
,
11

24

(c) 1

4
,
11

26
,
21

44

(d) 11

26
,
1

4
,
21

44

Answer:
(b) 1

6
,
33

48
,
11

24
Question 48.
If the chance that a ship arrives safely at a port is 9

10
; find the chance that
out of 5 expected ships, atleast 4 will arrive safely at the port.
(a) 91854

100000

(b) 32805

100000

(c) 59049

100000

(d) 26244

100000

Answer:
(a) 91854

100000

Question 49.
If the mean and the variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and, then find
P(X ≥ 1).
(a) 720

729

(b) 721

729

(c) 728

729

(d) 724

729

Answer:
(c) 728

729

Question 50.
A pair of dice is thrown 200 times. If getting a sum of 9 is considered a
success, then find the mean and the variance respectively of the number of
successes.
(a) 400

9
,
1600

81

(b) 1600

81
,
400

(c) 1600

81
,
200

(d) 200

9
,
1600

81

Answer:
(b) 1600

81
,
400

Question 51.
In a binomial distribution, the sum of its mean and variance is 1.8. Find the
probability of two successes, if the event was conducted times.
(a) 0.2623
(b) 0.2048
(c) 0.302
(d) 0.305
Answer:
(b) 0.2048

Question 52.
If the sum and the product of the mean and variance of a binomial
distribution are 24 and 128 respectively, then find the distribution.
32
(a) ( 14 +
3

4
)
30
(b) ( 21
+
1

2
)
32
(c) ( 21
+
1

2
)
30
(d) ( 41
+
3

4
)

Answer:
32
(c) ( 12 +
1

2
)

Question 53.
If the sum of the mean and variance of a binomial distribution is 15 and the
sum of their squares is 17, then find the distribution.
25
(a) ( 23 +
1

3
)
25
(b) ( 21
+
1

2
)
27
(c) ( 21
+
1

2
)
27
(d) ( 32
+
1

3
)

Answer:
27
(d) ( 23 +
1

3
)

Question 54.
The mean and the variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and 2
respectively. Find the probability of atleast 6 successes.
(a) 37

256

(b) 32

255

(c) 34

259

(d) 31

256

Answer:
(a) 37

256
Question 55.
If P(A ∩ B) = 7

10
and P(b) = 17

20
, P(A|B) equals
(a) 14

17

(b) 17

20

(c) 7

(d) 1

Answer:
(a) 14

17

Question 56.
If P(A) = 3

10
, P(b) = 2

5
and P(A ∪ B) = 3

5
, then P(B|A) + P(A|B) equals
(a) 1

(b) 1

(c) 5

12

(d) 7

12

Answer:
(d) 7

12

Question 57.
If P(A) = 2

5
, P(B) = 3

10
and P(A ∩ B) = 1

5
, then P(A’|B’) . (P(B’|A’) is equal to
(a) 5

(b) 5

(c) 25

42

(d) 1
Answer:
(b) 5

Question 58.
If A and B are two events sue that P(A) = 1

2
, P(b) = 1

3
, P(A|B) = 1

4
then (A’ ∩
B’) equals
(a) 12
1

(b) 3

(c) 1

(d) 3

16

Answer:
(c) 14
Question 59.
If P(A) = 0.4, P(b) = 0.8 and P(B|A) = 0.6, then P(A ∪ B) equal to
(a) 0.24
(b) 0.3
(c) 0.48
(d) 0.96
Answer:
(c) 0.48

Question 60.
If A and B are two events and A ≠ Φ, B ≠ Φ, then
(a) P(A|B) = P(A) . P(b)
P (A∩B)
(b) P(A|B) = P (B)

(c) P(A|B) . P(B|A) = 1

(d) P(A|B) = P(A)|P(b)
Answer:
P (A∩B)
(b) P(A|B) = P (B)

Question 61.
A and B are events such that P(A) = 0.4, P(b) = 0.3 and P(A ∪ B) = 0.5. Then
P(B’ ∩ A) equals
(a) 2

(b) 1

(c) 3

10

(d) 1

Answer:
(d) 1

Question 62.
You are given that A and B are two events such that P(b) = 3

5
, P(A|B) = =
4

5
,
then P(A) equals
(a) 3

10

(b) 1

(c) 1

(d) 3

Answer:
(c) 12

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