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(Special DPP on Probability)
1. 6 married couples are standing in a room. If 4 people are chosen at random, then the chance that exactly
one married couple is among the 4 is :
16 8 17 24
(A) (B) (C) (D)
33 33 33 33
2. A committee of 5 is to be chosen from a group of 9 people. The probability that a certain married couple
will either serve together or not at all is :
(A) 1/2 (B) 5/9 (C) 4/9 (D) 2/3
3. A quadratic equation is chosen from the set of all the quadratic equations which are unchanged by
squaring their roots. The chance that the chosen equation has equal roots is :
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/4 (D) 2/3
4. The probability that a positive two digit number selected at random has its tens digit at least three more
than its unit digit is
(A) 14/45 (B) 7/45 (C) 36/45 (D) 1/6
5. A 5 digit number is formed by using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 without repetition. The probability that the
number is divisible by 6 is :
(A) 8 % (B) 17 % (C) 18 % (D) 36 %
6. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of cards. Find the probability that the card is a
(i) king or a red card (ii) club or a diamond (iii) king or a queen
(iv) king or an ace (v) spade or a club (vi) neither a heart nor a king.
7. A bag contain 5 white, 7 black, and 4 red balls, find the chance that three balls drawn at random are all
white.
8. If four coins are tossed, Two events A and B are defined as
A: No two consecutive heads occur
B: At least two consecutive heads occur.
Find P(A) and P(B). State whether the events are equally likely, mutually exclusive and exhaustive.
9. Thirteen persons take their places at a round table, Find the odds against two particular persons sitting
together.
10. A has 3 shares in a lottery containing 3 prizes and 9 blanks, B has 2 shares in a lottery containing 2 prizes
and 6 blanks. Compare their chances of success.

11. There are three works, one consisting of 3 volumes, one of 4 and the other of one volume. They are placed
on a shelf at random, find the chance that volumes of the same works are all together.

12. 5 persons entered the lift cabin on the ground floor of an 8 floor building. Suppose that each of them
independently and with equal probability, can leave the cabin at any other floor, starting from the first,
find the probability that all 5 persons leave at different floors.

13. Consider a function f (x) that has zeroes 4 and 9. Given that Mr. A randomly selects a number from the
set {– 10, – 9, – 8, ..... 8, 9, 10}, what is the probability that Mr. A chooses a zero of f (x2) ?

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14.(a) A fair die is tossed. If the number is odd, find the probability that it is prime.
(b) Three fair coins are tossed. If both heads and tails appear, determine the probability that exactly one
head appears.
15. n different books (n  3) are put at random in a shelf. Among these books there is a particular book 'A'
and a particular book B. The probability that there are exactly 'r' books between A and B is
2 2(n  r  1) 2(n  r  2) (n  r)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
n (n  1) n (n  1) n (n  1) n (n  1)

16. A coin is biased so that heads is three times as likely to appear as tails. Find P(H) and P(T). If such a coin
is tossed twice find the probability that head occurs at least once.
17. Nine number 1, 2, 3, ......, 9 are put into a 3 × 3 array so that each number occur exactly once. Find the
probability that the sum of the numbers in atleast one horizontal row is greater than 21.

18. Mr. A lives at origin on the cartesian plane and has his office at (4, 5). His friend lives at (2, 3) on the
same plane. Mr. A can go to his office travelling one block at a time either in the + y or + x direction. If
all possible paths are equally likely then the probability that Mr. A passed his friends house is
(A) 1/2 (B) 10/21 (C) 1/4 (D) 11/21

19. In a hand at "whist" what is the chance that the 4 kings are held by a specified player ?

20. I have 3 normal dice, one red, one blue and one green and I roll all three simultaneously. Let P be the
probability that the sum of the numbers on the red and blue dice is equal to the number on the green die.
If P is the written in lowest terms as a/b then the value of (a + b) equals
(A) 79 (B) 77 (C) 61 (D) 57

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D P P -2
(Special DPP on Probability)
1. In throwing 3 dice, the probability that atleast 2 of the three numbers obtained are same is
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 4/9 (D) none

2. There are 4 defective items in a lot consisting of 10 items. From this lot we select 5 items at random. The
probability that there will be 2 defective items among them is
1 2 5 10
(A) (B) (C) (D*)
2 5 21 21
3. From a pack of 52 playing cards, face cards and tens are removed and kept aside then a card is drawn
at random from the ramaining cards. If
A : The event that the card drawn is an ace
H : The event that the card drawn is a heart
S : The event that the card drawn is a spade
then which of the following holds ?
(A) 9 P(A) = 4 P(H) (B) P(S) = 4P (A  H)
(C) 3 P(H) = 4 P(A S) (D) P(H) = 12 P(A S)
4. If two of the 64 squares are chosen at random on a chess board, the probability that they have a side in
common is :
(A) 1/9 (B) 1/18 (C) 2/7 (D) none
5. Two red counters, three green counters and 4 blue counters are placed in a row in random order. The
probability that no two blue counters are adjacent is
7 7 5
(A) (B) (C*) (D) none
99 198 42
6. South African cricket captain lost the toss of a coin 13 times out of 14. The chance of this happening was
7 1 13 13
(A) (B) (C) (D)
213 213 214 213
7. There are ten prizes, five A's, three B's and two C's, placed in identical sealed envelopes for the top ten
contestants in a mathematics contest. The prizes are awarded by allowing winners to select an envelope
at random from those remaining. When the 8th contestant goes to select the prize, the probability that the
remaining three prizes are one A, one B and one C, is
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/12 (D) 1/10
8. Of all the mappings that can be defined from the set A : {1, 2, 3, 4}  B(5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, a mapping is
randomly selected. The chance that the selected mapping is strictly monotonic, is
1 2 5 5
(A) (B) (C) (D)
125 125 4096 2048
9. If m n , in lowest terms, be the probability that a randomly chosen positive divisor of 1099 is an integral
multiple of 1088 then (m + n) is equal to
(A) 634 (B) 643 (C) 632 (D) 692
10. A coin is tossed and a die is thrown. Find the probability that the outcome will be a head or a number
greater than 4.
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11. Let A and B be events such that P( A) = 4/5, P(B) = 1/3, P(A/B) = 1/6, then
(a) P(A  B) ; (b) P(A  B) ; (c) P(B/A) ; (d) Are A and B independent?
1 1 1
12. If A and B are two events such that P (A) = , P (B) = and P (A and B) = , find
4 2 8
(i) P (A or B), (ii) P (not A and not B)
13. Given two independent events A, B such that P (A) = 0.3, P (B) = 0.6. Determine
(i) P (A and B) (ii) P (A and not B) (iii) P (not A and B)
(iv) P (neither A nor B) (v) P (A or B)
14. The probabilities that a student will receive A, B, C or D grade are 0.40, 0.35, 0.15 and 0.10 respectively.
Find the probability that a student will receive
(i) not an A grade (ii) B or C grade (iii) at most C grade
15. In a single throw of three dice, determine the probability of getting
(i) a total of 5 (ii) a total of at most 5 (iii) a total of at least 5.
16. A natural number x is randomly selected from the set of first 100 natural numbers. Find the probability
100
that it satisfies the inequality. x+ > 50
x
17. 3 students A and B and C are in a swimming race. A and B have the same probability of winning and each
is twice as likely to win as C. Find the probability that B or C wins. Assume no two reach the winning
point simultaneously.
18. A box contains 7 tickets, numbered from 1 to 7 inclusive. If 3 tickets are drawn from the box without
replacement, one at a time, determine the probability that they are alternatively either odd-even-odd or
even-odd-even.
19. 5 different marbles are placed in 5 different boxes randomly. Find the probability that exactly two boxes
remain empty. Given each box can hold any number of marbles.

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