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An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. The probability of at least 5 successes in the six trials of the experiment, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it calculates the probability of at least 5 successes in 6 trials using binomial distribution with p=2/3 and q=1/3.
602
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There are two balls in an urn. Each ball can be either white or black. If a white ball is put into the urn and there after a ball is drawn at random from the urn, then the probability that it is white is
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Correct option: B
The correct answer is B (2/3) because it is calculated by considering the possible initial states of the urn and then applying conditional probability.
603
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Application
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The mean and variance of binomial distribution are 4 and 3 respectively. Then, the probability of getting exactly six success in this distribution is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it correctly applies the binomial distribution formula with the calculated values of n, p, and q.
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When three dice are thrown the probability of getting 4 or 5 on each of the dice simultaneously, is
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Correct option: D
None of these
The correct probability is , which is not listed in the options. The explanation shows the calculation of this probability by considering all possible favorable outcomes when throwing three dice.
605
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There is an objective type question with 4 answer choices exactly one of which is correct. A student has not studied the topic on which the question has been set. The probability that the student guesses the correct answer, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because with 4 answer choices, the probability of guessing the correct one is 1/4.
606
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Application
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If and are independent events such that , then
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Correct option: C
Option C (0.3) is correct because it correctly uses the formula for the probability of the union of events and the independence of A and B.
607
Easy
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Application
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A six faced fair die is thrown until 1 comes. Then, the probability that 1 comes in even number of trials, is
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Correct option: A
Option A (5/11) is correct because the probability of getting 1 in an even number of trials is the sum of an infinite geometric series.
608
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Application
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The mean of the numbers obtained on throwing a die having written 1 on three faces, 2 on two faces and 5 on one face is
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Correct option: B
2
Option D () is correct because it is the expected value (mean) calculated by summing the product of each outcome and its probability.
609
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Application
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A coin is tossed three times is succession. If is the event that there are at least two heads and is the event in which first throw is a head, then equal to:
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is the conditional probability of having at least two heads given that the first throw is a head.
610
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Application
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In shuffling a pack of playing cards, four are accidently dropped. The probability that missing cards should be one from each suit, is
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Correct option: C
Option C is correct because the probability is calculated by dividing the number of ways to choose one card from each suit by the total number of ways to choose four cards.
611
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Analyzing
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A quadratic equation is chosen from the set of all quadratic equations which are unchanged by squaring their roots. The chance that the chosen equation has equal roots, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it represents the ratio of quadratic equations with equal roots to the total number of quadratic equations unchanged by squaring their roots.
612
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Analyzing
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The probability that two randomly selected subsets of the set have exactly two elements in their intersection, is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it calculates the probability of two randomly selected subsets having exactly two elements in their intersection by considering the number of ways to choose the intersection and the remaining elements.
613
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Application
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Suppose students appear in an examination. Let the number of students who pass the examination. Suppose , then value of is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is derived from the condition that the sum of all probabilities must equal 1.
614
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Application
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The probability of forming a three digit numbers with the same digits when three digit numbers are formed out of the digit 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because there are 4 favorable cases (222, 444, 666, 888) out of 100 possible three-digit numbers formed using the digits 0, 2, 4, 6, 8.
615
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Application
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If and are events of a random experiment such that and then equals
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it uses DeMorgan's law and the formula for the probability of the union of two events to find P(A).
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Application
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A bag contains 4 green and 3 red balls and bag contains 4 red and 3 green balls. One bag is taken at random and a ball is drawn and noted to be green. The probability that it comes from bag , is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it applies Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability that the green ball came from bag B, given that a green ball was drawn.
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Application
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The probability of having at least one tail in 4 throws with a coin, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it represents the probability of getting at least one tail, which is the complement of getting no tails in 4 throws.
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Five persons and are in queue of a shop. The probability that and always together, is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the probability of A and E being together, calculated by considering them as a single unit.
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Application
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Suppose persons are arranged in a row. The probability that two particular persons are not together is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it represents the probability that two particular persons are not together, calculated by subtracting the probability that they are together from 1.
620
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Application
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An article manufactured by a company consits of two parts and . In the processs of manufacutre of part , 9 out of 100 are likely to be defective. Similarly 5 out of 100 are likely to be defective in the manufacture of part . The probability that the assembled part will not be defective, is
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Correct option: A
0.8645
Option A (0.8645) is correct because it represents the probability that both parts A and B are non-defective, resulting in a non-defective assembled article.
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The mean and variance of 5 observations of an experiment are 4 and 5.2 respectively. If from these observations three are 1,2 and 6 , then the mean of remaining will be-
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Correct option: A
5.5
Option A (5.5) is correct because after calculating the sum of the remaining two observations, their mean is found to be 5.5.
622
Easy
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Application
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If a triangle is formed by choosing the vertices of 10 sided regular polygon. Then probability that triangle has exactly one side in common with the polygon, is
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Correct option: D
The correct answer is D () because it is obtained by calculating the probability of forming a triangle with exactly one side common with the polygon.
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Application
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A fair die is tossed repeatedly until a six is obtained. Let denote the number of tosses required. The probability that equals
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it represents the probability that at least 3 tosses are required to get a six, which is the probability of not getting a six in the first two tosses.
624
Easy
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Application
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A rifleman is firing at a distant target and has only chance of hitting it. The least number of rounds, he must fire in order to have more than chance of hitting it at least once, is
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Correct option: C
7
Option C (7) is correct because it finds the minimum number of rounds needed for the probability of hitting the target at least once to be greater than 50%.
625
Medium
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Application
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Two different families and are blessed with equal number of children. There are 3 tickets to be 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 the family is , then the number of children in each family is?
If the probability that all the tickets go to the children of the family is , then the number of children in each family is?
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Correct option: D
5
The correct answer is D (5) because the probability equation is set up correctly, and solving for the number of children in each family yields 5.
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Application
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A fair die is rolled. The probability that the first time 1 occurs at the even throw is
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Correct option: B
Option B (5/11) is correct because it represents the sum of an infinite geometric series where the first 1 occurs on an even throw.
627
Easy
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Analyzing
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If and are two independent events such that and , then , is
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Correct option: A
Option A (2/7) is correct because it is the value of that satisfies the given probability conditions for independent events A and B.
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The probability of a man hitting a target is . He fires at the target times ( , a given number). Then the minimum , so that the probability of hitting the target at least once is more than , is :
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Correct option: A
3
Option A (3) is correct because it is the minimum number of times the man must fire to have a probability greater than 7/10 of hitting the target at least once.
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Analyzing
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Fifteen football players of a club-team are given 15 T-shirts with their names written on the backside. If the players pick up the T-shirts randomly, then the probability that at least 3 players pick the correct T- shirt is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is the correct answer because it represents the calculated probability of at least 3 players picking the correct T-shirt using derangements.
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Analyzing
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Let be pairwise independent events with and . Then, is equal to
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Correct option: C
Option C () is the correct answer because it correctly applies the properties of pairwise independent events and conditional probability to simplify the expression for .
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