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A man draws a card from a pack of 52 cards and then replaces it. After shuffling the pack, he again draws a card. This he repeats a number of times. The probability that he will draw a heart for the first time in the third draw is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it calculates the probability of not drawing a heart in the first two draws and then drawing a heart in the third draw, with replacement.
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If is a binomial variate with the range {0,1,2,3,4,5,6} and then the parameter of is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is the parameter p of the binomial variate X calculated using the given relationship between P(X=2) and P(X=4).
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A letter is taken out at random from `ASSISTANT’ and another is taken out from `STATISTICS’. The probability that they are the same letters is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it sums the probabilities of drawing the same letter (A, I, S, or T) from both words.
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Five coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability that at least one head turning up, is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it's the probability of at least one head, calculated as 1 minus the probability of no heads.
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Four positive integers are taken at random and are multiplied together. Then the probability that the product ends in an odd digit other than 5 is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the probability of a product ending in an odd digit other than 5 requires each of the four integers to end in 1, 3, 7, or 9.
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There are letters and addressed envelopes, the probability that all the letters are not kept in the right envelope, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it represents the probability of at least one letter being in the wrong envelope, which is 1 minus the probability of all letters being in the correct envelope.
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A committee of five is to be chosen from a group of 9 people. The probability that a certain married couple will either serve together or not at all is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it calculates the probability of the married couple either serving together or not at all in the committee.
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The mean and variance of a random variable having a binomial distribution are 4 and 2 respectively. Then, is equal to
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Correct option: C
Option C (9/256) is correct because it is calculated using the binomial distribution formula with the determined values of n, p, and q.
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If and then the value of is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it represents the conditional probability of A given the union of A' and B', calculated using the given probabilities.
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A dice is thrown 5 times, then the probability that an even number will come up exactly 3 times, is
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Correct option: A
Option A (5/16) is correct because the probability is calculated using the binomial probability formula with n=5, k=3, and p=1/2.
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Two dice are thrown together. Then, the probability that the sum of numbers appearing on them is a prime number, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the probability is calculated by dividing the number of favorable outcomes (sum is a prime number) by the total possible outcomes when two dice are thrown.
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Urn contains 6 red and 4 black balls and urn contains 4 red and 6 black balls. One ball is drawn at random from urn and placed in urn . Then one ball is drawn at random from urn and placed in urn . If one ball is now drawn at random from urn , the probability that it is found to be red, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it represents the probability of drawing a red ball from urn A after two transfers, calculated using conditional probabilities.
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If a random variable follows the Binomial distribution such that then the value of is equal to:
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Correct option: A
1320
Option A (1320) is correct because after finding the value of p from the given condition, we can calculate the value of the expression which equals 1320.
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Three numbers are chosen from 1 to 30. The probability that they are not consecutive, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it calculates the probability of three numbers not being consecutive by subtracting the probability of them being consecutive from 1.
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If a coin be tossed times, then probability that the head comes odd times is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the probability of getting an odd number of heads in n coin tosses is always 1/2, due to the symmetry of the binomial distribution.
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If are two mutually exclusive events, then
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because if A and B are mutually exclusive, then , which implies .
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The mean and standard deviation of a binomial variate are 4 and respectively. Then, is equal to
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it represents the probability of X being greater than or equal to 1, calculated as 1 minus the probability of X being 0.
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If a random variable has the following probability distribution values of .
Then,
Then,
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it's the probability calculated after finding the value of k and then summing the probabilities for X >= 6.
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A class consists of 100 students, 25 of them are girls and 75 boys, 20 of them are rich and remaining poor, 40 of them are fair complexioned. The Probability of selecting a fair complexioned rich girl is
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Correct option: A
0.02
Option A (0.02) is correct because it's the product of the probabilities of selecting a fair-complexioned student, a rich student, and a girl, assuming independence.
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Two integers are selected at random from the set {1, 2, …… , 11}. Given that the sum of selected numbers is even, the conditional probability that both the number are even is
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Correct option: A
Option A (2/5) is correct because it is the conditional probability of both numbers being even, given that their sum is even, calculated using the conditional probability formula.
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The probability of obtaining sum ‘8’ in a single throw of two dice is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because there are 5 combinations that sum to 8: (2,6), (3,5), (4,4), (5,3), and (6,2), out of 36 possible outcomes.
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In a certain population 10% of the people are rich, 5% are famous and 3% are rich and famous. The probability that a person picked at random from the population is either famous or rich but not both, is equal to
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Correct option: C
0.09
Option C (0.09) is correct because it represents the probability of being either rich or famous, but not both, calculated using the given probabilities and the principle of inclusion-exclusion.
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A person puts three cards addresses to three different people in three envelopes with three different addresses without looking. What is the probability that the cards go into their respective envelopes?
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Correct option: B
Option B (1/6) is correct because there is only one way for all three cards to go into their respective envelopes out of the 3! = 6 possible arrangements.
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The probability of getting at least one tail in 4 throws of a coin is
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Correct option: A
Option A, , is correct because it calculates the probability of getting at least one tail as the complement of getting all heads.
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At the college entrance examination each candidate is admitted or rejected according to whether he has passed or failed the tests. Of the candidates who are really capable, pass the tests and of the incapable, pass the test. Given that of the candidates are really capable, then the proportion of capable college students is about
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is the result of applying Bayes' theorem to calculate the conditional probability of a candidate being capable given they passed the test.
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For independent events The probability that atleast one of the events occurs is
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Correct option: C
Option C, , is correct because it represents the probability of at least one event occurring, calculated as 1 minus the probability of none of the events occurring.
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A and B play a game where each is asked to select a number from 1 to 25. If the two numbers match, both of them win a prize. The probability that they will not win a prize in a single trial is
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Correct option: B
Option B (24/25) is correct because it represents the complement of the probability that they will win a prize, which is 1/25.
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A random variable takes values 0, 1, 2, 3,… with probability where is constant, then is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it is the value of P(X=0) that satisfies the condition for a valid probability distribution.
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If and are independent events, then which of the following is not true?
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Correct option: C
Option C () is not true because for independent events, P(A/B) = P(A) and P(B/A) = P(B), and in general, P(A) is not equal to P(B).
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If and are two mutually exclusive events, then
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Correct option: A
Option A is correct because if A and B are mutually exclusive, then A is a subset of the complement of B, meaning P(A) is less than or equal to P(B').
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