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Three different numbers are selected at random from the set . The probability that the product of two of the numbers is equal to third, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it represents the ratio of favorable outcomes (product of two numbers equals the third) to the total possible outcomes when selecting three numbers.
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If and are mutually exclusive events with and (total sample space) then is equal to
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it uses the properties of mutually exclusive events and the given relationship between P(A) and P(B) to find P(A).
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and are the independent events. The probability that both occur simultaneously is and the probability that neither occur is . The probability of occurrence of the events and is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because solving the probability equations derived from the given conditions yields these probabilities for events A and B.
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The probability that a randomly chosen 5-digit number is made from exactly two digits is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it calculates the probability of a 5-digit number being made from exactly two digits considering cases with and without zero.
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Sixteen players play in a tournament. They are divided into eight pairs at random. From each pair a winner is decided on the basis of a game played between the two players of the pair. Assuming that all the palyers are to equal strength. The probability that the players is among the eight winners is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because each player is of equal strength, so the probability that wins their first game is simply 1/2.
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A card is drawn at random from a pack of 100 cards numbered 1 to 100 . The probability of drawing a number, which is a square, is-
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because there are 10 perfect squares between 1 and 100, so the probability is 10/100.
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Suppose follows a binomial distribution with parameters and . If , then is equal to
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Correct option: A
1
Option A (1) is correct because, given the binomial distribution with n=6 and the equation 9P(X=4) = P(X=2), solving for p gives 4p = 1.
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An unbiased coin is tossed to get 2 points for turning up a head and one point for the tail. If three unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously, then the probability of getting a total of odd number of points
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the probability of getting an odd number of points is the same as getting an even number of points when tossing unbiased coins.
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Out of 15 persons 10 can speak Hindi and 8 can speak English. If two persons are chosen at random, then the probability that one person speaks Hindi only and the other speaks both Hindi and English is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it calculates the probability of selecting one person who speaks only Hindi and another who speaks both languages.
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If is a poisson variate with then the variance of is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the variance of a Poisson distribution is equal to its mean, which is found using the given probability P(X=0).
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In a box, there are 20 cards, out of which 10 are labelled as and the remaining 10 are labelled as . Cards are drawn at random, one after the other and with replacement, till a second - card is obtained. The probability that the second - card appears before the third - card is:
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Correct option: D
Option D is correct because it accurately calculates the probability of the second A-card appearing before the third B-card by considering all possible sequences.
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Let and be two events associated to a random experiment such that (Exactly one occurs) . Then, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it uses the given probabilities to find P(A ∩ B) using the formula for the probability of exactly one event occurring.
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From first 100 natural numbers, 3 numbers are selected. If these numbers are in A.P., then the probability that these numbers are even is:
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it calculates the conditional probability of selecting three even numbers in A.P. given that the three selected numbers are in A.P.
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6 boys and 6 girls sit in a row randomly. The probability that all 6 girls sit together, is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it is calculated by considering the 6 girls as one unit and then finding the ratio of favorable arrangements to total arrangements.
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If and , then which one of the following is correct?
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Correct option: A
and are independent events
Option A (A and B are independent events) is correct because holds true, indicating independence.
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Cards are drawn from a pack of 52 playing cards one by one. The probability that exactly 10 cards will be drawn before the first ace is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the probability of drawing 10 non-ace cards followed by an ace from a standard deck of 52 cards.
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The probability that in a year of century chosen at random, there will be 53 Sundays is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it calculates the probability of having 53 Sundays in a randomly chosen year of the 22nd century, considering both leap and non-leap years.
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If and are two events such that and then is equal to
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because , therefore .
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A die is thrown 100 times. If getting an even number is considered a success, the variance of the number of successes, is
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Correct option: B
25
Option B (25) is correct because the variance of a binomial distribution is calculated as npq, where n=100 and p=1/2.
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There are 9999 tickets bearing numbers 0001, 0002, …., 9999. If one ticket is selected from these tickets at random, the probability that the number on the ticket will consists of all different digits, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it represents the probability that the number on the ticket consists of all different digits, calculated by dividing the number of favorable outcomes by the total number of outcomes.
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Let a biased coin be tossed 5 times. If the probability of getting 4 heads is equal to the probability of getting 5 heads, then the probability of getting atmost two heads is:
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it is the probability of getting at most two heads in 5 tosses of a biased coin, calculated using binomial probability with the given condition.
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The probability that a randomly chosen matrix with all the entries from the set of first 10 primes, is singular, is equal to :
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the probability of a 2x2 matrix with entries from the first 10 primes being singular, calculated by considering cases where rows are proportional.
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If birth to a male child and birth to a female child are equal-probable, then what is the probability that at least one of the three children born to a couple is male?
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it calculates the probability of at least one male child by considering all possible gender combinations for three children.
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Two numbers are selected at random from the numbers . Let denote the probability that the difference between the first and second is not less than (where ). If and then is equal
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Correct option: A
1
Option A (1) is correct because it is derived by calculating the probability that the difference between two randomly selected numbers is not less than m, and then multiplying by 5.
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The probability that an ordinary or a non-leap year has 53 sunday, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because in a non-leap year, there is one extra day beyond 52 weeks, giving a 1/7 probability for that day to be a Sunday.
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A number is chosen at random from the set , . Define the event: the chosen number satisfies
Then P (A) is:
Then P (A) is:
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Correct option: A
0.71
Option A (0.71) is correct because it represents the probability of x satisfying the given inequality within the specified set.
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One hundred identical coins, each with probability or showing up heads are tossed once. If and the probability of heads showing on 50 coins is equal to that of heads showing on 51 coins, then the value of is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it is the value of p that satisfies the condition P(X=50) = P(X=51) in a binomial distribution.
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A bag contains four tickets numbered and 11. Four tickets are chosen at random with replacement, then the probability that sum of the numbers on the tickets is 23 , is
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Correct option: A
Option A is correct because the probability is calculated by finding the coefficient of x23 in the generating function and dividing by the total number of outcomes.
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and are two independent events such that their probabilities are and respectively. The probability of exactly one of the events happening is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is calculated using the probabilities of independent events and the formula for the probability of exactly one event happening.
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Two contestants play a game as follows: each is asked to select a digit from 1 to 9. If the two digits match they both win a prize. The probability that they will win a prize in a single trial is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because there are 9 ways the two contestants can select the same digit out of a total of 81 possible outcomes.
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