UTTHAN BATCH

JEE (Main + Adv.) Division

Mathematics
CPS - 18

PROBABILITY

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[STRAIGHT OBJECTIVE TYPE]

Q.1 to Q.5 has four choices (A), (B), (C), (D) out of which ONLY ONE is correct
1. Three teams participate in a tournament in which each team plays both of the other two teams
exactly once. The teams are evenly matched so that in each game, each team has a 50% chance
of winning the game. No game can end in a tie. At the end of the tournament, if one team has
more wins than both of the other two teams, that team is declared the unique winner of the
tournament. Otherwise, the tournament ends in a tie. The probability that the tournament ends
in a tie, is
(A) 1/8 (B) 1/4 (C) 3/8 (D) 1/2

2. A firing squad is composed of three policemen A, B and C who have probabilities 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8
respectively of hitting the victim. Only one of the three bullets is live and is allocated at random.
If the victim was found to be hit by live bullet, the probability that it was C who had the live round, is

1 8 6 9
(A) (B) (C) (D)
3 21 21 21

3. Let P be a point chosen at random on the line segment between the points (0, 1) and (3, 4) on
the coordinate plane. The probability that the area of the triangle with vertices (0, 0), (3, 0) and
P is greater than 2, is
(A) 8/9 (B) 3/4 (C) 2/3 (D) 1/2

4. An experiment resulting in sample space as S = {a, b, c, d, e, f}

1 1 2 3 4 5
with P(a) = , P(b) = , P(c) = , P(d) = , P(e) = and P(f)) = .
16 16 16 16 16 16
Let three events A, B and C are defined as A = {a, c, e,}, B = {c, d, e, f} and C = {b, c, f}.
If P(A/B) = p1, P(B/C) = p2, P(C/Ac) = p3 and P(Ac/C) = p4, then the correct order sequance is
(A) p1< p3 < p2 < p4 (B) p1< p4 < p3 < p2
(C) p1< p3 < p4 < p2 (D) p3< p1 < p4 < p2

5. An insurance company believes that people can be divided into two classes; those who are
accident prone and those who are not. Their statistics show that an accident prone person will
not have an accident in a yearly period with probability 0.4 whereas this probability is 0.2 for
the other kind. Given that 30% of people are accident prone. The probability that a new policyholder
will have an accident within a year of purchasing a policy is
(A) 0.74 (B) 0.28 (C) 0.34 (D) 0.66
[MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE TYPE]
Q.6 to Q.11 has four choices (A), (B), (C), (D) out of which ONE OR MORE THAN ONE is correct.
6. A number is chosen at random from the set {1, 2, 3, 4 ,..., n} . Let E1 be the event that the
number drawn is divisible by 2 and E2 be the event that the number drawn is divisible by 3, then
(A) E1 and E2 are always independent
(B) E1 and E2 are independent if n = 6k (k N)
(C) E1 and E2 are independent if n = 6k + 2 (k N)
(D) E1 and E2 are dependent if n = 10

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7. A jar has x green marbles and 17 blue marbles. 3 marbles are selected randomly one by one
without replacement. If the chance of choosing all 3 green marbles is the same as the chance of
choosing 2 green and one blue marble, then the possible value of x can be
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 40 (D) 53

1 1
8. A box contains 3 coins B1, B2 and B3. Probability of getting head on these coins are , and
2 4
1
respectively. If one of the coins is selected at random and tossed it m times and got exactly
8
10 heads (m  10, m  N) and x, y, z denote the probabilities that it was coin B1, B2, B3
respectively, then
410 1
(A) x = If m = 10 (B) z = If m = 10
410  210  1 4  210  1
10

(C) lim x  0 (D) lim z  1

m  m 

9. If E1, E2 and E3 are three independent events such that

1
    
P E1  E 2  E3 = 2P E1  E 2  E 3 = 3P E1  E 2  E 3  and P(E1) =
3
, then

1 1 1 1 24
(A)  = 12 (B)  =
P ( E 2 ) P( E 3 ) P ( E 2 ) P( E 3 ) 7
6 42

(C) P E 2  E 3 =35

(D) P E 2  E 3 =
143

10. Two soldiers X and Y shoot each other. If one or both are hit then shooting is over. If both shot
miss then they repeat the process. Suppose the results of shots are independent and that each
2 1
shot of X will hit Y with probability and each shot of Y will hit X with probability .
5 5
8 8
(A) The probability that X is not hit is .(B) The probability that X is not hit is .
13 25
2 2
(C) The probability that both are hit is .(D) The probability that both are hit is .
25 13
11. If a set A is {1, 0, – 1, 2} then which of the following is(are) correct?
(A) A square matrix of order 3 is constructed whose elements are from set A then the probability
27
that matrix is skew symmetric is .
49
(B) A square matrix of order 3 is constructed whose elements are from set A then the probability
1
that matrix is symmetric is .
64
3
(C) A function f : A  A is defined then probability that function is onto is .
32
3
(D) A function f : A  A is defined and f is onto then the probability that f (i)  i,  i  A is .
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12. In which of the following cases the events E and F are independent?
(A) Fair die is tossed twice.
E : denotes the event that the sum of two rolls equals 5.
F : denotes the event that an even number comes up in the first throw.
(B) 3 fair coins are tossed.
E : denotes the event all heads or all tails.
F : at least 2 tails.
(C) A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards.
E : denotes the event that the card drawn is either red or black.
F : denotes the event that the card drawn is the face card.
(D) P(E  F) = 3/4; P(EC) = 2/3 and P(E  F) = 1/4

13. From 5 different books of Mathematics, 4 different books of English and 3 different books of G.K.,
at least two books of each subject is randomly selected. If two events E1 and E2 are defined as
E1 : atmost three books of English are selected.
E2 : atmost three books of Mathematics and exactly three books of G.K. are selected.
10 15
(A) P(E1) = (B) P(E2) =
11 26
10
(C) P E1 E 2  = (D) P E1 E1  E 2  = P E 2 E1  E 2 
11

14. Consider 4 functions

 2 1
x sin , x  0
f (x )   x , g(x) = (x2 + 1) |x + 1|,
0 , x0
h(x) = sgn(x2 – 4x + 5) and k(x) = [{x}]
A function is selected at random, three events are defined as
A = selected function is continuous
B = selected function is derivable
C = derivative of selected function is continuous.
[Note: Where [y], {y} and sgn(y) denotes greatest integer, fractional part and signum function
of y respectively and P(E) represents probability of event E]

A  B 7 A  B
(A) P   P   (B) P   P   1
 B A 4 B A
9
(C) P(A) + P(B) + P(C) = 1 (D) P ( A )  P( B)  P (C) 
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[COMPREHENSION TYPE]
Q.15 to Q.17 are based upon a paragraph. Each questions has four choice (A), (B), (C), (D) out of
which ONLY ONE is correct
Paragraph for question nos. 15 to 17
Suppose that independent missiles A, B and C have probabilities 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 of hitting the
enemy's headquarters respectively. Assume that the enemy's headquarters will be destroyed
with probability 0.3, if hit by a single missile, 0.6 if hit by two missiles and 1 if hit by all 3
missiles.
15. The probability that headquarters is destroyed, is
125 231 189 173
(A) (B) (C) (D)
500 500 500 500

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16. The probability that the headquarters is destroyed by a single missile knowing that it is destroyed,
is
19 25 38 55
(A) (B) (C) (D)
77 77 77 77

17. The probability that the headquarters is destroyed by missile A only knowing that it is destroyed, is
19 25 40 54
(A) (B) (C) (D)
231 231 231 231
[NUMERICAL VALUE TYPE]
Q.18 to Q.20 are NUMERICAL VALUE Questions. (whose answer may be Single digit, Multiple digit &
decimal number)
18. The probability that a randomly selected calculator from a store is of brand 'r' is proportional to
7r
r (r = 1, 2, 3 ... 6). Further, the probability of a calculator of brand 'r' being defective is ,
21
r = 1, 2, ... 6. If probability that a calculator randomly selected from the store being defective
p
is , where p and q are co-prime then find the value of (p + q).
q

19. Let S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}. Two subsets A and B of S are chosen randomly with
replacement with B chosen after A. The probability that A is a subset of B can be expressed as

pa b 
b for some primes p and q. Find the value of 
 p  q.
q  a 

20. Two persons P and Q are respectively located at A(0,0) and B(4,4) in the given figure. They start
moving simultaneously toward each other and at a speed of one segment per minute. 'P' moves
either to the right or up and 'Q' moves either left or down. The probability that they will meet on
m
their path is , where m, n are relatively prime natural numbers, then m + n is equal to
n

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