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PROBABILITY MCQs

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Question 1.


Seven white balls and three black balls are randomly placed in a row. The probability that no two black balls are placed adjacently equals


  1.     12
  2.     715
  3.     215
  4.     13
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 715
:
B

The number of ways to arrange 7 white an 3 black balls in a row
10!7!.3!=10.9.81.2.3=120
Numbers of blank places between 7 balls are 6. There is 1 place before first ball and 1 place after last ball. Hence total number of places are 8.
Hence 3 black balls are arranged on these 8 places so that no two black balls are together in number of ways.
=8C3=8×7×61×2×3=56
So required probability = 56120=715


Question 2.


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


  1.     3255
  2.     2155
  3.     1955
  4.     None of these 
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> None of these 
:
D

Let the events are
R1 = A red ball is drawn from urn A and placed in B
B1 = A black ball is drawn from urn A and placed in B
R2 = A red ball is drawn from urn A and placed in A
B2 = A black ball is drawn from urn A and placed in B
R = A red ball is drawn in the second attempt from A
Then the required probability
=P(R1R2R)+(R1B2R)+P(B1R2R)+P(B1B2R)
=P(R1)P(R2)P(R)+P(R1)P(B2)P(R)+P(B1)P(R2)P(R)+P(B1)P(B2)P(R)



=610×511×610×610×611×510×410×411×710+410×711×610
=3255


Question 3.


One of the two events must occur. If the chance of one is 23 of the other, then odds in favour of the other are


  1.     2:3
  2.     1:3
  3.     3:1
  4.     3:2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 3:2
:
D

Let p be the probability of the other event, then the probability of the first event is 23 p. Since two events are totally exclusive, we have p+(23)p=1p=35
Hence odds in favour of the other are 3 : 5 – 3, i.e, 3 : 2.


Question 4.


If A and B are two events such that P(A) = 12 and P(B) = 23, then


  1.     P(AB)23
  2.     16P(AB)12
  3.     16P(AB)12
  4.     All of the above
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> All of the above
:
D
We have P(AB)           max. {P(A),P(B)}=23
P(AB)               min.  {P(A),P(B)}=12
and P(AB)=P(A)+P(B)P(AB)P(A)+P(B)1=16
16P(AB)12
P(AB)=P(B)P(AB)
Hence 2312P(AB)2316
16P(AB)12
Question 5.


The probability that a leap year selected at random contains either 53 Sundays or 53 Mondays is ____.


  1.     27
  2.     47
  3.     37
  4.     17
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 37
:
C
A leap year consists of 366 days comprising of 52 weeks and 2 days. There are 7 possibilities for these 2 extra days.
(i) Sunday, Monday                       
(ii) Monday, Tuesday                    
(iii) Tuesday, Wednesday            
(iv) Wednesday, Thursday              
(v) Thursday, Friday                     
(vi) Friday, Saturday             
(vii) Saturday, Sunday
Let us consider two events :
A : the leap year contains 53 Sundays
B : the leap year contains 53 Mondays.
Then we have P(A)=27,P(B)=27,P(AB)=17
Required probability = P(AB)
=P(A)+P(B)P(AB)=27+2717=37
Question 6.


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


  1.     3255
  2.     2155
  3.     1955
  4.     None of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 3255
:
A

Let the events are
R1 = A  red ball is drawn from urn A and placed in B
B1 = A  black ball is drawn from urn A and placed in B
R2 = A  red ball is drawn from urn B and placed in A
B2 = A  black ball is drawn from urn B and placed in A
R = A  red ball is drawn in the second attempt from A
Then the required probability
= P(R1R2R)+(R1B2R)+P(B1R2R)+P(B1B2R)
= P(R1)P(R2)P(R)+P(R1)P(B2)P(R)+P(B1)P(R2)P(R)+P(B1)P(B2)P(R)
=610×511×610+610×611×510+410×411×710+410×711×610
=3255


Question 7.


One of the two events must occur. If the chance of one is 23 of the other, then odds in favour of the other are


  1.     2:3
  2.     1:3
  3.     3:1
  4.     3:2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 3:2
:
D

Let p be the probability of the other event, then the probability of the first event is 23 p. Since two events are totally exclusive, we have p+(23)p=1p=35
Hence odds in favour of the other are 3 : 5 – 3, i.e, 3 : 2.


Question 8.


The probability of a bomb hitting a bridge is 12 and two direct hits are needed to destroy it. The least number of bombs required so that the probability of the bridge beeing destroyed is greater then 0.9, is


  1.     8
  2.     7
  3.     6
  4.     9
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 8
:
A

Let n be the least number of bombs required and x the number of bombs that hit the bridge. Then x follows a binomial distribution with parameter n and p=12
Now, P(X2)>0.91P(X<2)>0.9
P(X=0)+P(X=1)<0.1
nC0(12)n+nC1(12)n1(12)<0.110(n+1)<2n
This gives n8


Question 9.


The probability of happening an event A is 0.5 and that of B is 0.3. If A and B are mutually exclusive events, then the probability of happening neither A nor B is


  1.     0.6
  2.     0.2
  3.     0.21
  4.     None of these 
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 0.2
:
B
P(¯¯¯¯A¯¯¯¯B)=P(¯¯¯¯A¯¯¯¯B)1P(AB)
Since A and B are mutually exclusive,
P(AB)=P(A)+P(B)
Hence required probability =1(0.5+0.3)=0.2
Question 10.


If the integers m and n are chosen at random between 1 and 100, then the probability that a number of the form 7m+7n is divisible by 5 equals


  1.     14
  2.     17
  3.     18
  4.     149
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 14
:
A
Since m and n are selected between 1 and 100, hence sample space = 100×100.
Also 71=7,72=49,73=343,74=2401,75=16807 etc. Hence 1, 3, 7 and 9 will be the last digits in the powers of 7. Hence for favorable cases
n m     1,1    1,2    1,3....    1,1002,1    2,2    2,3...    2,100...........................................100,1    100,2    100,3    100,100
For  m = 1; n = 3, 7, 11….. 97
 Favorable cases = 25
Similarly for every m, favorable n are 25.
 Total favourable cases = 100×25
Hence required probability = 100×25100×100=14 

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