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A & B are two events such that and P (A) = 0.4, P (A + B) = 0.7 and P (AB) = 0.2, then P (B) = (A) 0.1 (B) 0.3 (C) 0.5 (D) None of these Suppose that A, B, C are events such

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(C)

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10. The probability of happening an even A is 0.5 and that of B is 0.3 . If A & B are mutually exclusive events, then

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2 the probability of happening neither A nor B is : (A) 0.6 (B) 0.2 (C) 0.21 (D) None of these 11. If P (A) = 0.4, P (B) = x, P (A B) = 0.7 and the events A & B are independent, then x = (A) (C) making the second selection . The probability that both the bulbs are without defect is : (A) (C)

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12. A box contains 6 nails and 10 nuts . Half of the nails and half of the nuts are rusted . If one item is chosen at random, what is the probability that it is rusted or is a nail .

15. If A & B are any two events, then the true relation is : (A) P (A B) > P (A) + P (B) - 1 (B) P (A B) < P (A) + P (B) (C) P (A B) = P (A) + P (B) P (A B) (D) None of these 16. A box contains 15 tickets numbered 1, 2, ..... , 15 . Seven tickets are drawn at random one after the other with replacement . The probability that the greatest number on a drawn ticket is 9, is :

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13. A man draws a card from a pack of 52 playing cards, replaces it and shuffles the pack . He continues this process until he gets a card of spade . The probability that he will fail the first two times is :

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17. A purse contains 4 copper coins & 3 silver coins, the second purse contains 6 copper coins & 2 silver coins . If a coin is drawn out of any purse, then the probability that it is a copper coin, is : (A) (C)

(D) None of these

14. In a box of 10 electric bulbs, two are defective . Two bulbs are selected at random one after the other from the box . The first bulb after selection being put back in the box before

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3 18. If A & B are any two events, then the probability that exactly one of them occur is : (A) P (A) + P (B) - P (A B) (B) P (A) + P (B) - 2 P (A B) (C) P (A) + P (B) - P (A B) (D) P (A) + P (B) - 2 P (A B) 19. If A & B are two mutually exclusive events, then P (A + B) = (A) P (A) + P (B) - P (AB) (B) P (A) - P (B) (C) P (A) + P (B) (D) P (A) + P (B) + P (AB) 20. The probability of happening atleast one of the events A & B is 0.6 . If the events A & B hapens simultaneously with the probability 0.2, then P A +P B = (A) 0.4 (C) 1.2 (B) 0.8 (D) None of these (D) None of these 23. A speaks truth in 75% cases and B in 80% cases . In what % of cases are they likely to contradict each other in stating the same fact . (A) 5 % (B) 55 % (C) 35 % (D) 45 % 24. Six boys and six girls sit in a row . What is the probability that the boys and girls sit alternatively . (A) (C)

21. A problem of mathematics is given to three students whose chances of solving the problem are

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1 1 1 , & 3 4 5 respectively . The probability that the question will be solved is :

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26. 3 dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of obtaining a total of 17 or 18 ? (B)

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(D) None of these

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27. An unbiased die with faces marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 is rolled four times . Out of four face values obtained the

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4 probability that the minimum face value is not less that 2 and the maximum face value is not greater than 5, is : (A) (C) them will be alive at the end of the year is : (A) p + q (B) P + q - 2 qp (C) p + q - pq (D) p + p + pq 31. One hundred identical coins each with probability p of showing up heads are tossed once . If 0 < p < 1 and the probability of heads showing on 50 coins is equal to that of heads showing on 51 coins, then the value of p is :

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28. A coin is tossed until a head appears or until the coin has been tossed five times . If a head does not occur on the first two tosses, then the probability that the coin will be tossed 5 times is : (A) (C)

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(B) (D)

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1 1 (D) 3 4 29. Cards are drawn one by one at random from a well shuffled full pack of 52 cards until two aces are obtained for the first time . If N is the number of cards required to be drawn then P r (N = n), where 2 n 50, is :

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32. The letter of the word ASSASSIN are written down at random in a row. The probability that no two S occur together is : (B)

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(A) (B) (C) (D)

3 ( n 1) (52 n) (51 n) 50 49 17 13

2 ( n 1) (52 n) (51 n) 50 49 17 13

(n 1) (52 n) (51 n) 50 49 17 13

33. A bag A contains 2 white & 3 red balls & bag B contains 4 white & 5 red balls . One ball is drawn at random from a randomly chosen bag and is found to be red . The probability that it was drawn from bag B was : (B)

5 16

4 (n 1) (52 n) (51 n) 50 49 17 13 30. The probabilities that A & B will die within a year are p & q respectively, then the probability that only one of

5 25 (D) 18 52 34. India plays two matches each with West Indies & Australia . In any match

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5 the probabilities of India getting point 0, 1 & 2 are 0.45, 0.05 & 0.50 respectively . Assuming that the outcomes are independents, the probability of India getting atleast 7 points is : (A) 0.8750 (B) 0.0875 (C) 0.0625 (D) 0.0250 35. From the word POSSESSIVE, a letter is chosen at random . The probability of it to be S is : (A) (C)

(C)

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(D) None of these

39. Urn A contains 6 red & 4 black balls and urn B contains 4 red & 6 black balls . One ball is drawn at random from urn A & placed in urn B . Then one ball is drawn at random from urn B & placed in urn A . If one ball is now drawn at random from urn A, the prob. that it is found to be red is :

(A) (C)

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40. A box contains 100 tickets numbered 1, 2, ..... , 100 . Two tickets are chosen at random . It is given that the maximum number on the two chosen tickets is not more than 10 . The minimum number on them is 5 with probability : (B)

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38. A pair of fair dice is rolled together till a sum of either 5 or 7 is obtained. Then the probability that 5 comes before 7 is : (A)

37. A fair coin is tossed n times . Let X be the number of times head is observed . If P (X = 4), P (X = 5) and P (X = 6) are in H.P., then it is equal to (A) 7 (B) 10 (C) 14 (D) None of these

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(B)

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1 2 p 3 3

1 2 <p< 3 3

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6 42. Let p denotes the probability that a man aged x years will die in a year . The probability that out of n men A 1, A 2, A 3, .... , A n each aged x, A 1 will die in a year and will be the first to die, is : (A) (C) a success . Then the variance of the probability distribution of the number of successes is : (A) (C)

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43. For a biased die the probabilities for different faces to turn up are given below, Face : 1 2 3 4 5 6 Probability : .1 .32 .21 .15 .05 .17 The die is tossed and you are told that either face 1 or 2 has turned up . Then the probability that it is face 1, is :

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46. Three groups of children contain respectively 3 girls & 1 boy, 2 girls & 2 boys, 1 girl & 3 boys . One child is selected at random from each group . The chance that three selected consisting of 1 girl & 2 boys, is :

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(A)

(B)

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(D) None of these

47. Out of 21 tickets marked with numbers from 1 to 21, three are drawn at random . The chance that the numbers on them are in A.P., is

(A)

8 17

44. One bag contains 5 white & 4 black balls . Another bag contains 7 white and 9 black balls . A ball is transferred from the first bag to the second and then a ball is drawn from second . The probability that the ball is white is :

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(B)

5 (C) 9

4 (D) 9

3 8

45. A die is tossed twice . Getting a number greater than 4 is considered

1 4

(D) None of these

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7 49. An unbiased coin is tossed . If the result is a head, a pair of unbiased dice is rolled and the number obtained by adding the numbers on the two faces is noted . If the result is a tail, a card from a well shuffled pack of eleven cards numbered 2, 3, 4, ..... , 12 is picked and the number on the card is noted . The probability that the noted number is either 7 or 8, is : (A) 0.24 (B) 0.244 (C) 0.024 (D) None of these 50. A bag contains 3 white, 3 black and 2 red balls . One by one three balls are drawn without replacing them . The probability that the third ball is red, is : (A) (C)

(A) (C)

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(B) (D)

371 464
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53. Three of the six vertices of a regular hexagon are chosen at random . The probability that the triangle with these 3 vertices is equilateral, is equal to : (A) (C)

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51. Three groups A, B, C are competing for positions on the Board fo Directors of a company . The probabilities of their winning are 0.5, 0.3, 0.2 respectively . If the group A wins, the probability of introducing a new product is 0.7 and the corresponding probabilities for the group B & C are 0.6 & 0.5 respectively . The prob. that the new product will be introduced, is : (A) 0.18 (B) 0.35 (C) 0.10 (D) 0.63

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55. In order to get atleast once a head with probability 0.9, the number of times a coin needs to be tossed, is : (A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) None of these 56. Let 0 < P (A) < 1, 0 < P (B) < 1 and P (A B) = P (A) + P (B) P (A) P (B). Then :

52. The probability that a man can hit a target is 3/4 . He tries 5 times . The probability that he will hit the target atleast three times, is :

B (A) P = P (B) - P (A) A

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A (D) P = P (A) B
57. Odds 8 to 5 against a person who is 40 years old living till he is 70 and 4 to 3 against another person now 50 till he will be living 80 . Probability that one of them will be alive next 30 years, is : (A) (C)

(A) (C)

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(B) (D)

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1 3

61. The value of C for which, P (X = k) = Ck2 can serve as the prob. function of a random variable X, that takes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 is : (A) (C)

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(B)

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(B) (D)

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59. In a certain town, 40% of the people have brown hair, 25% have brown eyes and 15% have both brown hair and brown eyes . If a person selected at random from the town, has brown hair, the probability that he also has brown eyes, is :

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60. If X follows a binomial distribution with parameters n = 6 & p and 4 (P (X = 4)) = P (X = 2), then p =

63. A six faced dice is biased that it is twice as likely to show an even number as an odd number when thrown . It is thrown twice . The probability that the sum of two numbers thrown is even, is : (B)

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