Probability & Statistics

MATH F 113
BITS Pilani Dr. Mayank Goel
Department of Mathematics
K K Birla Goa Campus

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Question 1

In a lecture hall there are 4 class I boys, 6

class I girls and 6 class II boys. How many
class II girls must be present in that lecture
hall if boy and class I are to be
independent when a student is selected at
random ? Assume that there are only two
type of students in the lecture hall that is
class I and class II.
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Question 2

In 1989 there were three candidates for the

position of principal- Mr Chatterji, Mr Ayangar
and Dr Singh, whose chance of getting the
appointment are in the proportion 4:2:3
respectively. The probability that Mr Chatterji if
selected would introduce co-eduation in the
college is 0.3. The probabilities of Mr Ayangar
and Dr Singh doing the same are 0.5 and 0.8.
What is the probability that there were co-
education in the college in 1990 ?
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Question 3

The contents of urns I, II and III are as

follows:
1 white, 2 black and 3 red balls
2 white, 1 black and 1 red balls
4 white, 5 black and 3 red balls
One urn is chosen at random and two balls
drawn. They happen to be white and red.
What is the pr that they come from urn I, II
or III ? 4

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Question 4

In answering a question on a multiple choice

test a student either knows the answer or
he guesses. Let P be the pr that he knows
the answer and 1-P the pr he guesses.
Assume that a student who guesses at the
answer will be correct with pr 1/5. What is
the conditional pr that a student knew the
answer to a question given that he
answered it correctly ?
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Question 5

A plane is missing, and it is presumed that it

was equally likely to have gone down in
any of the 3 possible regions. Let 1-  i
denote the probability that the plane will be
found upon a search of the ith region when
plane is, in fact, in the region, i = 1; 2; 3.
What is the conditional probability that the
plane is in the ith region, given that a
search of region 1 is unsuccessful, i = 1; 2;
3? 6

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