BRAIN@)WORK ait EVITA NE 1, Three ordinary and fair dice are rolled simultaneously. The probability of the sum of outcomes being atleast equal to 8, is equal to (a) 81/108 (b) 27/216 (©) 81/216 (a) 181/216 2. A person takes a step forward with probability p and takes a step backward with probability q, where p+ q= 1. The probability that after (2n + 1) steps the person is only one step away from his initial position, is equal to (a) 281G, prt te gt (b) "4G, + pt grt (©) IC pre gh (a) 2-216, «ph grt 3. Three numbers are selected simultaneously from the set (1, 2, 3, -.. 25}. The probability that the product of selected numbers is divisible by 4, is equal to (@) wus (b) 98/115 (©) 73/1150 (a) 963/1150 4, ‘Two numbers m, and mp are chosen at random (without replacement) from the set {1, 2.3, sennns Sith the probability that »{' ~n} is divisible by 5, is equal to n=l 4@4n—1) a (b) ® Sn-1 i 5(Sn-1) Vn—5 an © S60 © Sn 5. ‘X follows a binomial distribution with parameters ‘wand ‘p: ‘Y’ follows a binomial distribution with parameters ‘mt’ and ‘p’ If Xand Yare independent then PX = rhea v= 7+.) 18 equal to "GMC, 7G, () @ cores} 6. Two events A and B are such that Pt) = 3, P(B)=2and P(ANB)=+ » then P(B| AUB) is equal to 5 2 @2 HB O14 @ 2 7. 3mfairdice are each rolled 2ntimes. The probability that the scores 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 each appear mn times, is equal to (mn)! ay by Gant ey” som 6 GxamoF (6 (om) Gy” Conny’ Ve (6mn)t (1)"" © 2 (mn)? () 8. Two persons are selected randomly from n persons seated in a row (n= 3). The probability that the selected persons are not seated consecutively, is equal to ( 22 @ 22 m3 nad 9. A real estate man has eight master keys to open several new homes. Only one master key will open any given home, If 40% of these homes are usually left unlocked, the probability that the real estate man can get into a specific home, if itis given that he selected 3 keys randomly before leaving his office, is equal to @ 58) 38 ©) 34 @) 1M 10. Aman alternatively tosses a fair coin and rolls fair ordinary dice. He starts with the coin. The probability that he gets a tail on the coin before getting 5 or 6 on the dice, is equal to (a) 3/4 (b) 1/2 (©) V3 (d) 2/3 LL. For three events E}, Ey and E}, P(exactly one of the events E, or E> occur) = P(exactly one of the event E> or Es occur) = P(exactly one of the events E; o E occur)= p and P(all the three events occur simultaneously) = Pywhere pe (0 2) ‘The probability that atleast one of these events occur is a) 3e+2p yy Pee @ ) PS pte 3p+2p? SptPt q) 3P +20" © 7 @ F 12, A bag contains ‘W" white balls and ‘R’ red balls. ‘Two players P, and P, alternatively draw a ball from the bag, replacing the ball each time after the draw, till cone of them draws a white ball and wins the game. ‘P,” begins the game. The probability of P, being the winner, is equal to Ww 7 © Wwe2mR © wer) 2 o a —® w+RWw w+2R) 13, A bag contains 4 tickets numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and another bag contains 6 tickets numbered 2, 4,6, 7,8, 9. One bag is chosen and a ticket is drawn, The probability that the ticket bears the number 4, is equal to (a) 512 (b) 5/24 (@) 712 (a) 19/24 14. A number of the form 7" +7"? is formed, by selecting the numbers m and ny from the set {1, 2, 3, nw» 99, 100} with replacement. The probability of the formed number being divisible by 5, is equal to @ se) v4) Ine (a) 172 15. ‘Py is the probability that a statement by A is true and ‘P,’ has the similar meaning for B. A and B agree in making a statement S. The probability that statement is correct is, (a) BP APR +R0-B)0-A) AP, AP, +P(-R)-P,) AP oo (d) P+Py +l @ P, + 2PP 16. A bag contains four tickets marked with numbers 112, 121, 211, 222. One ticket is drawn at random from the bag. Let E,(i= 1, 2, 3) denote the event that i digit, on the selected ticket is 2, then which of the following is not correct? (a) E; and E) are independent (b) E) and E; are independent (b) © (©) Eyand B; are independent (@) E), By Es are independent 17. A bag B has 3 white balls and 2 red balls. Another bag By has 4 white and 6 red balls. A ball is drawn randomly from bag B, and without seeing it’s colour, is being put in bag B,. Now a ball is drawn from bag B>. ‘The probability of both the drawn balls, of being same colour, is (a) 41/55 (©) 29/55 18. A natural number ‘n’ is selected at random from the set of frst 100 natural numbers. The probability that (b) 31/55 (d) none of these n+ 100 <50 is equal to (a) 9/10 (©) 9/20 () 39/50 (d) none of these 1 19. For two events A and B, P(A) = P(A | B) = + and 4 P(B| A) = +, then which of the following is not correct? 2 (a) P(a’|B) 3 ) PB'|ay=t (© PavB)=2 (a) PAN B)=4 4 “8 20. If the probability of choosing an integer ‘n’ out of 2m integers {1, 2, 3, sum 2mm ~ 1, 2m} is inversely proportional to n‘( 1 ; 21. In a bag there are 15 red and 5 white balls. Two balls are drawn in succession, without replacement, The first drawn ball is found to be red. The probability that second ball is also red, is equal to @ 310 () 7NO (©) 5/9 (@) 14/9 22, Two squares are chosen from squares of a ordinary chess board. It is given that the selected squares do not belong to the same row or column, The probability that the chosen squares are of same colour, is equal to (a) 25/49 (b) 32/49 (c) 25/64 (d) 1/2 (d) none of these 23. Two fair dice are rolled simultaneously. One of the dice shows four. The probability of other dice showing six, is equal to @ 21 (b) ns (©) V6 (a) 13624. Four integers are selected randomly and are multiplied. The probability of this product being divisible by 5 but not by 10, is equal to 175 369 3471 1 @ > &) > © (@) — 10% 10" 10* 32 25. Two events A and B are such that P(A) > 0 and P(B) #1. The expression P(A|B) is also equal to (a) 1-P(A[B) (b) 1-P(A|B) ( EePAvB) (a IPB) P(B) PCB) 26. Consider the set of integers (10, 11, 12, ..» 98, 99}. By seeing the number a person A will laugh if the product of the digits of the number is 12, He chooses three numbers one at a time from this set of integers, randomly and with replacement. The probability that he will laugh atleast once, is equal to o (2) o +) 7 (c) (2) (d)_none of these 27. The sum of two natural numbers nj and np is known to be equal to 100. The probability that their product being greater than 1600, is equal to (a) 20/33, (b) 58/99 (©) 13/33 (a) 59/99 28. Let ‘head’ means one and ‘tail’ means two and the coefficients of the equation ax? + by + ¢ = 0 are chosen by tossing three fair coins, The probability that the roots of the equation are non-real, is equal to @ 58 () 78 ©) 38 (@) 8 29. A committee consists of 9 experts taken from three institutions A, B and C, of which 2 are from A, 3 from B and 4 from C. If three experts resign from the committee, then the probability of exactly two of the resigned experts being from the same institution, is equal to (a) 4/7 (b) 25/84 (©) 55/84 (a) 37/84 30. A person while dialing a telephone number, forgets the last three digits of the number but remembers that exactly two of them are same, He dials the number randomly. The probability that he dialed the correct number, is equal to (a) 1135 (b) 1727 (©) 1/54 (a) 1/270 31. ‘Two subsets A and B of a set S consisting of ‘n" elements are constructed randomly. The probability that A. B= and A U B= Sis equal to 3)" 3)" @ 1 (3) ) (3) ot ws z 3 32. Consider all functions that can be defined from the set A = {1, 2, 3} to the set B= {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. A function ‘flx) is selected at random from these functions. The probability that, selected function satisfies fli) < flj) for i, ‘The probability that 10 there is no gust of wind on the occasion when he missed the target, is equal to (a) 5/13 (b) 18/39 (c) 7/13 (d) 23/39 37. Aand Beach throw a fair dice. The probability that A’s throw is not greater than B’s throw, is equal to @ U3 (&) 23° © m2 @ sn2