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Probability Assignments and Problems

This document contains 25 probability questions with multiple choice answers. It covers topics like finding the probability of independent and dependent events occurring, probability distributions, conditional probability, random variables, binomial and Poisson distributions. The questions range from easy concepts to more complex word problems involving probability calculations with events from real world examples like coin tosses, drawing balls from bags, test matches etc.

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Probability Assignments and Problems

This document contains 25 probability questions with multiple choice answers. It covers topics like finding the probability of independent and dependent events occurring, probability distributions, conditional probability, random variables, binomial and Poisson distributions. The questions range from easy concepts to more complex word problems involving probability calculations with events from real world examples like coin tosses, drawing balls from bags, test matches etc.

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Probability

Assignment -
Droppers
Q1. Two events A and B have the probabilities 0.25 and 0.5 respectively.
The probability that both A and B occur simultaneously is 0.14. The
probability that neither A nor B occurs is

A 0.39

B 0.29

C 0.19

D 0.5
Q2. It is given that the events A and B are such that

D
Q3. A die is thrown 7 times. What is the chance that an odd number
turns up at least 4 times?

D
Q4. then find P(A ∩ B), if A and B are
independent events.

D
Q5. The probability that a certain kind of component will survive a
given shock test . Find the probability that among 5 components
tested exactly 2 will survive.

D None of these
Q6. 3 cards are drawn one by one without replacement from a deck
of 52 cards. Find the probability that first is Ace, second is King &
3rd is Queen

D
Q7. Three bags contains white & black balls as per Following:

Probabilities of selecting Bag 1, Bag 2 & Bag3 are 0.2,


0.3 & 0.5 respectively. A ball is randomly selected. Find the
probability that ball is white.

D None of these
Q8. 1 ball is randomly drawn from 2 boxes. and is found to be
red. Find the probability that it came from box I

D
Q9. then find the value of

D
Q10. Three numbers are chosen at random without replacement from
1, 2, 3,.........,10. The probability that the minimum of the chosen
numbers is 4 or their maximum is 8, is

D None of these
Q11. A bag contains 3 red, 6 white and 7 blue balls. Two balls are drawn
one by one. What is the probability that first ball is white and second
ball is blue when first drawn ball is not replaced in the bag?

D None of these
Q12. India and pakistan play a 5 match test series of hockey, the
probability that india wins at least three matches is

D
Q13. A bag A contains 2 white and 3 red balls and a bag B contains 4
white and 5 red balls. One ball is drawn at random from one of the bags
and it is found to be red. Find the probability that it was drawn from
the bag B.

D
Q14. A random variable X has the probability distribution

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

P(x) 0.15 0.23 0.12 0.10 0.20 0.08 0.07 0.05

For the event E = { X is prime number} and F = { X < 4 }, the


probability of P ( EUF ) is

A 0.50

B 0.77

C 0.35

D 0.87
Q15. The probability that a man can hit a target is He tries 5 times.
The probability that he will hit the target at least three times is

D
Q16. A coin is tossed three times in succession. If E is the event that
there are at least two heads and F is the event in which first throw is a
head, then P (E/F) is equal to

D
Q17. In a class of 60 students, 40 opted for NCC, 30 opted for NSS
and 20 opted for both NCC and NSS. If one of these students is
selected at random, then the probability that the student Selected
has opted neither for NCC nor for NSS is :

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A

D
Q18. A bag has 10 balls. Six balls are drawn in an attempt and replaced.
Then another draw of 5 balls is made from the bag. The probability
that exactly two balls are common to both the draw is

D
Q19. Two players toss 4 coins each. The probability that they both
obtain the same number of heads is

D None of these
Q20. There are two urns A and B. Urn A contains 5 red, 3 blue and 2
white balls, urn B contains 4 red, 3 blue and 3 white balls. An urn is
chosen at random and a ball is drawn. Probability that the ball drawn
is red is

D
Integer Type
Q21. The probability of a man hitting a target is . The least number
of shots required, so that the probability of his hitting the target at
least once is greater than , is…...

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Integer Type

Q22. If A and B are two events such that P(A) = 0.6 P(B) = 0.8, if the
greatest value that can have is p, then the value of 8p is.
Integer Type

Q23. Given three identical boxes Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ, each containing two


coins. In box Ⅰ, both coins are gold coins, in box Ⅱ, both are silver
coins and in the box Ⅲ, there is one gold and one silver coin. A person
chooses a box at random and takes out a coin. If the coin is of gold, the
probability that the other coin in the box is also of gold is 3k. Then k is
Integer Type

Q24. For a biased die, the probabilities for different faces to turn up
are
Face 1 2 3 4 5 6

Probability 0.2 0.22 0.11 0.25 0.05 0.17

The die is tossed and you are told that either face 4 or face 5 has
turned up. The probability that it faces 4 is 12p. Then p is
Integer Type

Q25. Two cards are drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. The
probability that one is a heart card and the other is a king is p, then the
value of 104p is.
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