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Four tickets are marked 00,01, 10 and 11 respectively, are placed in a bag. A ticket is drawn at random five times, being replaced each time. The probability that the sum of the numbers on the five tickets drawn is 24, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is the probability calculated by dividing the number of favorable outcomes (sum of 24) by the total possible outcomes when drawing the tickets.
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There are 12 white and 12 red balls in a bag. Balls are drawn one by one with replacement from the bag. The probability that 7 th drawn ball is 4 th white, is
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Correct option: B
The correct answer is because it calculates the probability that the 7th drawn ball is the 4th white ball.
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If and , then is equal to
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Correct option: D
1
Option D (1) is correct because the expression simplifies to 1 using the given probabilities and conditional probability formula.
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Two numbers and are chosen at random from the set . The probability that is divisible by 5, is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the probability calculated by dividing the number of ways to choose two numbers such that is divisible by 5 by the total number of ways to choose two numbers.
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In tossing 10 coins, the probability of getting exactly 5 heads is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is calculated using the binomial probability formula for exactly 5 heads out of 10 coin tosses.
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Suppose and are two events such that and , then equals
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it correctly applies the definition of conditional probability and De Morgan's law.
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Let be a non-zero real number. A determinant is chosen from the set of all determinants of order 2 with entries or only. The probability that the value of the determinant is non-zero is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the probability that the value of the determinant is non-zero, given the entries are either x or -x.
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A bag contains white and black balls. Two players and alternately draw a ball from the bag replacing the ball each time after the draw till one of them draws a white ball and wins the game. begins the game. If the probability of winning the game is three times that of , then the ratio is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the probability of A winning is three times that of B, which leads to the ratio a:b = 2:1 after solving the probabilities of A and B winning.
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Which one is not a requirement of a binomial distribution?
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Correct option: C
The outcomes must be dependent on each other
Option C (The outcomes must be dependent on each other) is correct because one of the requirements of a binomial distribution is that the outcomes of each trial must be independent.
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If , and , then is equal to
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it correctly uses the conditional probability formula and De Morgan's Law.
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Let and be any pairwise independent events with and , then is equal to
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it simplifies the conditional probability using pairwise independence and the given condition .
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Two cards are drawn without replacement from a well-shuffled pack. The probability that one of them is an ace of heart, is
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Correct option: B
Option B, is correct because it considers the two possible scenarios: the ace of hearts is drawn first or second.
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The mean and variance of a binomial distribution are and respectively. If , then or 5 is equal to :
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because after finding n=6, the probability P(X=4 or 5) is calculated correctly using the binomial distribution formula.
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Four dice are thrown simultaneously and the numbers shown on these dice are recorded in matrices. The probability that such formed matrices have all different entries and are non-singular, is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it involves calculating the total possible matrices, identifying singular matrices with distinct entries, and subtracting to find the non-singular matrices before calculating the probability.
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A die is thrown.
I. The probability of a prime number will appear is .
II. The probability of a number more than 6 will appear is
I. The probability of a prime number will appear is .
II. The probability of a number more than 6 will appear is
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Correct option: A
Only I is correct
Option A (Only I is correct) is correct because the probability of a prime number appearing on a die is 1/2, while the probability of a number more than 6 is 0.
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In an experiment the success is twice that of failure. If the experiment is repeated 6 times, the probability that at least 4 times favourable is
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Correct option: D
Option D (496/729) is correct because it calculates the probability of at least 4 successes in 6 trials using the binomial probability formula.
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If the probability distribution of a random variable is as given below:
Then the value of , is
Then the value of , is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the sum of probabilities in a probability distribution must equal 1, allowing us to solve for k.
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One mapping is selected at random from all mappings of the set to itself. If the probability that the mapping is one-one is then the value of equals
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Correct option: A
6
The correct answer is A (6) because the probability that a mapping from a set of size n to itself is one-to-one is , and solving gives n = 6.
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A box contains 15 green and 10 yellow balls. If 10 balls are randomly drawn, one-by-one, with replacement, then the variance of the number of green balls drawn, is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is the variance calculated using the formula npq with the given parameters n=10 and p=3/5.
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A and B throw a dice. The probability that A's throw is not greater than B's, is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it represents the probability that A's throw is less than or equal to B's throw, calculated by summing the probabilities for each possible outcome of B's throw.
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The probability that a year chosen at random has 53 Sundays, is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it calculates the weighted average of the probability of 53 Sundays in a leap year and a non-leap year.
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If and , then equals to
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it is the result of calculating using the given probabilities and the formula for conditional probability.
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In a survery, it was found that 21 persons liked product , 26 liked product and 29 liked product . If 14 persons liked products and 12 liked products and 13 persons liked products and and 8 liked all the three products then
(i) Find the number of persons who liked the product only
(ii) The number of persons who like the products and but not
(i) Find the number of persons who liked the product only
(ii) The number of persons who like the products and but not
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Correct option: A
12; 6
The correct answer is A (12; 6) because it correctly calculates the number of people who liked product C only and the number of people who liked products A and B but not C using set theory principles.
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In a poisson distribution mean is 16, then standard deviation is
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Correct option: D
4
Option D (4) is correct because in a Poisson distribution, the variance is equal to the mean, and the standard deviation is the square root of the variance. Since the mean is 16, the standard deviation is .
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A three digit number is selected at random from the set of all three-digit numbers. The probability that the number selected has all the three digits same, is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because there are 900 three-digit numbers, and only 9 of them have all three digits the same (111, 222, ..., 999). The probability is therefore 9/900 = 1/100.
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Bag contains 6 red and 4 blue balls and bag contains 5 red and 6 blue balls. A ball is transferred from bag P to bag and then a ball is drawn from bag . What is the probability that the ball drawn is blue?
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is the probability of drawing a blue ball from bag Q after transferring a ball from bag P.
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A number is selected at random from the first twenty-five natural numbers. If it is a composite number, then it is divided by 5 . But if it is not a composite number, then it is divided by 2 . The probability that there will be no remainder in the division, is
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Correct option: C
Option D is correct because the probability is 0.2, calculated by finding the number of composite numbers divisible by 5 and non-composite numbers divisible by 2, then dividing by the total number of selections.
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It is given that the events and are such that and . Then, is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it uses the conditional probability formulas to find P(B).
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If the numbers appeared on the two throws of a fair six faced die are and , then the probability that , for all , is :
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Correct option: A
Option A (17/36) is correct because it represents the probability calculated by finding favorable outcomes where the discriminant is negative.
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A pair of dice is thrown 5 times. For each throw, a total of 5 is considered a success. If the probability of at least 4 successes is , then is equal to
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Correct option: D
123
Option D (123) is correct because it is the numerator of the probability of at least 4 successes, calculated using binomial probability.
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