(Foundation of Bio Technology)

Assignment 4.

Due: 09/12/2016 (evening 3:00) Marks 40

Percentage 5%

Purpose: To demonstrate the skills acquired by you in Permutations, Combinations

and Probability

Instructions:
1. The student will get full marks only if he enumerates all the steps and formulae
involved
2.Plagiarism in any form would lead to a very high penalty
3.Late assignments will be penalised .If you submit an assignment a day after then
you will be marked “0” for it.

Resources: The assignment covers the notes

Requirements: You should hand the assignment complete in all respects by the due
date either hand written

Evaluation: Your assignment would be marked on the basis of how well you have
understood the concepts and your ability to apply them.

Q1. An office building has 27 floors and has 37 offices on each floor. How many offices are there in
total?
Q2. There are six different airlines that fly from New York to Denver and seven that fly from Denver
to San Francisco. How many different possibilities are there for a trip from New York to San
Francisco via Denver?

Q3.Evaluate the following:

(a) 5C2 7
C3 14
C2 (b) 14P3 15
P4

Q4.A bag contains 6 white marbles and 5red marbles. Find the number of ways four marbles
can be drawn from the bag if
(a) They can be of any color;
(b) Two must be white and two red;
(c) They must be of same colored

Q5. A committee of 5 is to be formed out of 5 Professors,7 lecturers and 8 Assistant

Professor so that
a) The committee has 2 Professors,2 Lecturers and 1 Assistant Professor
b) The committee should have 3 professors and 2 lecturers. Further; it should have a
particular Professor and a particular Lecturer always in that committee
c) The committee should have 3 professors and 2 lecturers. Further; it should never have a
particular Professor and a particular Lecturer always in that committee

Q6. (i) Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn. What is the
probability that a ticket has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 7.
(ii) Tickets numbered 1 to 24 are mixed. A ticket is drawn at random what is the probability
that it is divisible by 3 or 7.

Q7.In a certain group of 400 people, 40% are men and 60% women. Of the men, 5% are
colour blind and of the women, 10% are colour blind. Find the prob. that a person selected is:

(a) a colour blind man (b) a colour blind person

Q8. 3 persons A, B, C shoot to hit a target. If A hits the target 4 times in 5 trials and B hits it
3 times in 4 trials & C hits it 2 times in 3 trials. Find the prob. that
(a) exactly 2 hit that target
(b) at least 2 hit the target
(c) none hits the target.