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DPP
DAILY PRACTICE PROBLEMS

CLASS : XII / XIII

NO. 6

DPP Syllabus : Permutation & Combination, Probability

DPP No. # 6
Total Marks : 136 Max. Time : 120 min.
Comprehension (SCQ) ('–1' negative marking) Q.1 to Q.4 (3 marks 3 min.) [12,12]
Comprehension (MSQ) ('-2' negative & Partial marking) Q.5 to Q.8 (4 marks 3 min.) [16,12]
Multiple Select objective (MSQ) ('-2' negative & Partial marking) Q.9 to Q.21 (4 marks 3 min.) [48, 36]
Integer Questions ('-1' negative marking) Q.22 to Q. 40 (3 marks 3 min.) [54, 54]

Comprehension # 1 (Q.No. 1 to 2)
Let P, Q, R be the sets of first 8 natural numbers, first 12 natural numbers and first 20 natural numbers
respectively.
A number is selected from each of these sets, say p, q, r respectively.

1. The probability that r = p + q is
1 1 3 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
20 10 20 4

2. The probability that r = |p – q| is

1 11 11 3
(A) (B) (C) (D)
240 120 240 80

Comprehension # 2 (Q.No. 3 to 4)
n digit numbers are formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 each of which begins with 1 such that no two
consecutive digits are same. If an (n  2) be such n-digit numbers which ends in 1 while bn be the ones
which ends in a fixed number other than 1, then
3. The value of a7 equals
(A) 180 (B) 183 (C) 190 (D) 197
4. Which of the following is correct ?
(A) a10 = 3a7 + 2a8 (B) b10 = 2a9 + b9 (C) a11 = 3a9 + 2a10 (D) b11 = a9 + 3b9

Comprehension # 3 (Q.No. 5 to 6)
An insect is initially at origin. In each step it moves to (x + 1, y) or (x, y + 1) if it starts the step from
(x, y). Both moves are equally likely. Let P(, ) be the probability that it reaches (, ) after  + 
steps. Further P[(,)|(, )] is the probability that it reaches (, ) given that it has passed through (, )
{note  <  and  < }
c
5. P(2, 3) = where c and d are relatively prime then
d
(A) c = 5 (B) c = 1 (C) d = 8 (D) d = 16

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6. P[(6, 6)|(2, 3)] = where r and s are relatively prime then
s
(A) r = 28 (B) r = 35 (C) s = 128 (D) s = 256

Comprehension # 4 (Q.No. 7 to 8)
A cinema hall owner decides to award a free ticket to the first person whose date of birth matches
with a person who has already bought the ticket on the same day. Assuming that the dates of birth
are randomly distributed throughout the 365 days of a year and no-one knows other's date of
birth, If the nth person in the queue (counted from beginning) has probability P(n) of winning the
free ticket then
7. Identify the correct assertion(s) :
363 1 728
(A) P(1) = 0 (B) P(3) = (C) P(2) = (D) P(3) =
365 365 (365)2
8. The value of n for which P(n) is maximum is :
(A) an odd number (B) an even number (C) a multiple of 5 (D) has six divisors

9. A bag contains a number of coloured balls, with equal numbers of each colour. Adding 20 balls of a
new colour to the bag would not change the probability of drawing (without replacement) two balls of
same colour. Then
(A) The number of balls in the bag before adding 20 balls is 190
(B) The number of balls in the bag after adding 20 balls is 190
(C) The number of balls of each colour before adding 20 balls is 10
(D) The different number of colour ball available in the bag is 10

10. Let Pk be a regular polygon of k sides each of whose sides has length unity.
Consider set A = {P3 , P4, P5 , ………, P10}. An element is chosen from set A; then
1
(A) Probability that the all diagonals of the chosen polygon are equal in length is .
8
1
(B) Probability that all diagonals of the chosen polygon equal in length is
4
1
(C) Probability that number of diagonals of chosen polygon is an odd number is .
2
5
(D) Probability that number of diagonals of chosen polygon is an odd number is .
8
11. Each of 2010 boxes in a line contains one red marble, and for 1  k  2010, the box at the kth
position also contains k white marbles. A child begins at the first box and successively draws a single
marble at random from each box in order. He stops when he first draws a red marble. Let P(n) be the
probability that he stops after drawing exactly n marbles. The possible value(s) of n for which
1
P(n) < , is
2010
(A) 44 (B) 45 (C) 46 (D) 47

12. There is a group of 6 persons. They play a game in which each has to select a number from 1 to 4. Let
An is event that n persons have selection of same number, then
18 18
(A) P(A 5 )  6 (B) P(A 5 )  5
4 4
1 1
(C) P(A 6 )  5 (D) P(A 5 / A 6 ) 
4 2

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13. A box contains 3 coins B1, B2 and B3. Probability of getting head on these coins are , and
2 4 8
Respectively. If one of the coins is selected at random and tossed it m times and got exactly 10 heads
(m 10, mN) and x, y, z denote the probabilities that it was coin B1, B2, B3 respectively, then
410 1
(A) x  if m = 10 (B) z  if m = 10
4 2
10 10
1 4  210  1
10

(C) lim x = 0 (D) lim z = 1

m m

14. For any positive integer let d(n) denote the number of positive divisors of n (including 1 & n itself)
d(n2 )
= K, then K -
d(n)
(A) can be an even number
(B) can be an odd number
(C) can be an integer only when n is perfect square of a natural number.
(D) is necessarily an odd number

15. A and B are two events defined as follows :

A : It rains today with P(A) = 40%
B : It rains tomorrow with P(B) = 50%
P (A  B) = 30%
Also, P(E1) = P(( A  B) / ( A  B)) and P(E2) = P({(A  B ) (B  A)} /( A  B)) Then which of the
following is/are true?
(A) A and B are independent
(B) P(A/B) < P(B/A)
(C) E1 and E2 are equiprobable
(D) P( A / ( A  B)) = P(B / ( A  B))

16. Four people sit round a circular table and each person will roll a normal six sided die once. The
N
probability that no two people (sitting next to each other) will roll the same number is , then N is
1296
divisible by :

(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 72

17. A player throws an ordinary die with faces numbered 1 to 6. Whenever he throws 1, he has a further
throw. If P(n) is the probability of getting a total score of n then
1 1   1 
(A) P(5)  1– 4  (B) P(5)  5  1– 4 
5  6   6 
1  1  1  1 
(C) P(8)   1– 5  (D) P(8)   1– 4 
180  6  180  6 

18. Mr. A write an article. The article originally is error free. Each day Mr. B introduces one new error in
2
article. At the end of day Mr. A checks article and has chance of catching each individual error still in
3
p
article. After 3 days probability that the article is error free can be expressed as , (where p,q are
q
relatively prime numbers) then
(A) p + q = 1145
(B) p + q = 1154
(C) |p – q| = 313
(D) |p – q| = 331
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19.  flip 4 fair coins and eat all of the coins that land on tails.  flip all the uneaten coins again and then eat
p
all the coins that land on tails. The probability that  have eaten at least 3 coins is , (where p and q
q
are coprime), then
(A) p=189 (B) p=11 (C) q =16 (D) q=256

20. Let set A = {1, 2, 3, …….., 22}. Set B is a subset of A and B has exactly 11 elements. The sum of
elements of all possible sets B is :
(A) divisible by 8 (B) divisible by 4 (C) divisible by 11 (D) divisible by 17

21. A slip of paper is given to a person 'A' who marks it with either a plus or a minus sign. The probability of
1
his writing plus is . 'A' passes the slip to 'B' who may either leave it as it is or change the sign before
3
passing it to 'C'. Similarly 'C' passes it on to 'D' and 'D' passes it to a referee who sees the plus sign on
2
the slip. If 'B' , 'C' , 'D' change the sign with probability . The probability that A originally wrote the plus
3
sign is
 1 1
(A) less than 1/3 (B) greater than 9/13 (C) less than 13/25 (D) lies in interval  , 
4 2
2000
22. Determine the number of distinct prime divisors of  r.
r 1
2000
Cr

n
23. (1)
r 0
n r
. nCr .r n  5040 , find the value of n  N

24. A blind man rolls a fair die marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 on its six faces. After the first rolling, he erases
the number on one of the six faces turning up and marks it with 1. He rolls the die again and erases the
number on the f ace turning up and marks it with 2. He repeats this exercise four more times and marks
3, 4, 5 and 6 on faces turning up in subsequent trials. If probability that the face initially marked with 4
66 p
still has 4 marked on it, after the sixth trial, is p, then find value of .
4205
25. Six people play the following game : They have a cube, initially white. One by one, the players mark an
X on a white face of the cube, and roll it like a die. The winner is the first person to roll an X(for
1
example, player 1 wins with probability , while if none of players 1 – 5 win, player 6 will place an X on
6
n
the last white square and win for sure). The probability that the sixth player wins is . Find the value
324
of n.
26. There are 10 cards, labeled from 1 to 10. Three cards denoted by a, b, c (a > b > c) are drawn from the
a
1 k
 (x  2bx  3c)dx  0 is
2
cards at the same time if the probability such that then is.
0
k 10

27. The number of 3-element subsets of the set {1, 2, 3, ….,19} that have sum of elements divisible by 4 is
equal to N, then find number of prime divisors of N ?

28. Let P be the set of first 4 natural numbers. Q is a set whose elements are subsets, A1, A2, A3,....of P
such that Ai  Aj   i  j. Find the maximum number of elements in set Q.

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29. N fair coins are flipped once. The probability that at most 2 of the coins show up as heads is Find
2
the value of N.

30. Four people sit around a round table, each person knowing his two adjacent only, the four get up, walk
around, and sit back down at the random seats, the probability that someone is sitting next to some-one
p
he doesn't known is , where p and q are relatively prime natural numbers, them find the value of
q
p +q.
31. Each of 10 passengers board any of the three buses randomly which has no passenger initially. The

probability that each bus has got at least one passenger, is

 
a10  3. b10  a
, then find the value of
3c
c
ba

32. From a pack of 52 playing cards, half of the cards are randomly removed without looking at them. From
1
the remaining cards, 3 cards are drawn randomly. The probability that all are king, is , then find the

number of prime divisors of .

33. Number of ways in which the letters of word ABBCABBC can be arranged such that the word ABBC
does not appear in any word, is a three digit natural number, then find the units digit of this number.

34. Let A = {x1, x2, ….., x8} and B = {y1, y2, y3, y4}. The total number of functions f : A  B that are onto and
there are exactly three elements x in A such that f(x) = y1, is equal to (1200)k, then find the value of k.
35. A person flipped a fair coin five times. In the first three flips, the coins came up heads exactly twice and
in the last three flips also, the coin came up heads exactly twice. The probability that the third flip was a
p
heads, is ( where p and q are coprime) the find the remaimder when p 3q is divided by 7.
q

36. The probability for which lim


n (cos x)a  exists finitely, where (a, b) is the possible outcome of
x 0 b
x
p
throwing a pair of normal dice, is ( where p and q are coprime) then find the value of ( q – p)
q
37. A man takes a step forward with probability 0.4 and backward with probability 0.6. The probability that
at the end of eleven steps he is one step away from the starting point is p, then find sum of digits of the
p
number .
(0.24)5
38. The number of triplets (A, B, C) where A, B, C are subsets of X = { 1, 2, 3, ……., 100} such that
A  B  C =  but A  B  and B  C  is p100 – 2 · q100 + r100, then find the value of
p – q + r.

39. A seven-digit number is in the form of abcdefg (g,f,e,... etc. are digits at units, tens, hundreds place
....etc), where a<b<c<d>e >f> g and a, b, c, d, e, f, g are different digits. If the number of such numbers
is N, then find the sum of the digits of N.

40. Four cards are drawn from a standard deck (52 cards) with suits indistinguishable (for example, A  is
the same as A). How many distinct hands can one obtain?

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1. (A) 2. (C) 3. (B) 4. (C) 5. (AD) 6. (BC) 7. (ACD)

8. (BCD) 9. (AC) 10. (BC) 11. (BCD) 12. (BC) 13. (ABCD) 14. (BC)

15. (BC) 16. (ABC) 17. (AC) 18. (AC) 19. (AD) 20 (BCD) 21. (ACD)

22. (2) 23. (7) 24. (5) 25. (5) 26. (4) 27. (2) 28. (8)

29. (5) 30. (5) 31. (2) 32. (3) 33. (1) 34. (7) 35. (1)

36. (2) 37. (12) 38. (6) 39. (12) 40. (1820)

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