Probability : Sample paper Questions

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Find the mean of the number of doublets in three throws of a pair of dice.
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A bag contains 4 green and 6 white balls. Two balls are drawn one by one without replacement. If the second
ball drawn is white, what is the probability that the first ball drawn is also white?
5/9
Two cards are drawn successively with replacement from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability
distribution of the number of diamond cards drawn. Also, find the mean of the distribution.
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A shopkeeper sells three types of flower seeds A1, A2 and A3. They are sold as a mixture where the proportions
are 4:4:2 respectively. The germination rates of three types of seeds are 45%, 60% and 35%. Calculate the
probability.
a) of a randomly chosen seed to germinate. 49/100
b) that it is of the type A2, given that a randomly chosen seed does not germinate. 16/51
Bag I contains 3 red and 4 black balls and Bag II contains 4 red and 5 black balls. One ball is transferred from Bag I
to Bag II and then two balls are drawn at random (without replacement) from Bag II. The balls so drawn are
found to be both red in colour. Find the probability that the transferred ball is red.

Out of a group of 8 highly qualified doctors in a hospital, 6 are very kind and cooperative with their patients and
so are very popular, while the other two remain reserved. For a health camp, three doctors are selected at
random. Find the probability distribution of the number of very popular doctors. 5/9
Consider the experiment of tossing a coin. If the coin shows tail, toss it again but if it shows head, then throw a
die. Find the conditional probability of the event that ‘the die shows a number greater than 3’ given that ‘there is
at least one head’
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Bag I contains 1 white, 2 black and 3 red balls; Bag II contains 2 white, 1 black and 1 red balls; Bag III contains 4
white, 3 black and 2 red balls. A bag is chosen at random and two balls are drawn from it with replacement. They
happen to be one white and one red. What is the probability that they came from Bag III.
64/199
Four bad oranges are accidentally mixed with 16 good ones. Find the probability distribution of the number of
bad oranges when two oranges are drawn at random from this lot. Find the mean of the distribution.
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One bag contains 3 red and 5 black balls. Another bag contains 6 red and 4 black balls. A ball is transferred from
first bag to the second bag and then a ball is drawn from the second bag. Find the probability that the ball drawn
is red. 51/88
If A and B are two independent events, prove that A and B are also independent
Two numbers are selected at random (without replacement) from first 7 natural numbers. If X denotes the
smaller of the two numbers obtained, find the probability distribution of X. Also, find mean of the distribution.
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A speaks truth in 80% cases and B speaks truth in 90%cases. In what percentage of cases are they likely to agree
with each other in stating the same fact? 74 %
An urn contains 6 balls of which two are red and four are black. Two balls are drawn at random. Probability that
they are of the different colours is 8/15
There are three coins, one is a two headed coin (having head on both the faces), another is a biased coin that
comes up heads 75% of the time and the third is an unbiased coin. One of the three coins is chosen at random
and tossed. If It shows head. What is probability that it was the two headed coin ? 4/9
The probability that it will rain on any particular day is 50%. Find the probability that it rains only on first 4 days
of the week. 1/128
A refrigerator box contains 2 milk chocolates and 4 dark chocolates. Two chocolates are drawn at random. Find
the probability distribution of the number of milk chocolates. What is the most likely outcome?
Ans: Most likely outcome is getting one chocolate of each type
Given that E and F are events such that P(E) = 0.8, P(F) = 0.7, P (E∩F) = 0.6. Find P (Ē | F̄)
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Two cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards one-by-one without replacement. What is the
probability of getting first card red and second card Jack? 1/26
Three friends go for coffee. They decide who will pay the bill, by each tossing a coin and then letting the “odd
person” pay. There is no odd person if all three tosses produce the same result. If there is no odd person in the
first round, they make a second round of tosses and they continue to do so until there is an odd person. What is
the probability that exactly three rounds of tosses are made? 3/64
In an Office three employees Jayant, Sonia and Oliver process incoming copies of a certain form. Jayant
processes 50%of the forms, Sonia processes 20% and Oliver the remaining 30% of the forms. Jayant has an error
rate of 0.06 , Sonia has an error rate of 0.04 and Oliver has an error rate of 0.03 . Based on the above
information, answer the following questions.
1)Find the probability that Sonia processed the form and committed an error. 0.0008
(ii) Find the total probability of committing an error in processing the form. 0.047
(iii) The manager of the Company wants to do a quality check. During inspection, he selects a form at random
from the days output of processed form. If the form selected at random has an error, find the probability that
the form is not processed by Jayant. 17/47
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. (a) The probability that it rains today is 0.4. If it rains today, the probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.8. If it

If 𝑃1: denotes the probability that it does not rain today.

𝑃2: denotes the probability that it will not rain tomorrow, if it rains today.
𝑃3: denotes the probability that it will rain tomorrow, if it does not rain today.
𝑃4: denotes the probability that it will not rain tomorrow, if it does not rain today.

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0.04 0.74
A random variable X can take all non – negative integral values and the probability that X takes
the value r is proportional to 5−r. Find P X  3 . 124/125

Arka bought two cages of birds: Cage-I contains 5 parrots and 1 owl and Cage –II contains 6
parrots. One day Arka forgot to lock both cages and two birds flew from Cage-I to Cage-II
(simultaneously). Then two birds flew back from cage-II to cage-I(simultaneously). Assume that
all the birds have equal chances of flying. On the basis of the above information, answer the
following questions:
(1) When two birds flew from Cage-I to Cage-II and two birds flew back from Cage-II to
Cage-I then find the probability that the owl is still in Cage-I.
(2) When two birds flew from Cage-I to Cage-II and two birds flew back from Cage-II to
Cage-I, the owl is still seen in Cage-I, what is the probability that one parrot and the owl
flew from Cage-I to Cage-II?