Set – A

1) A bag contains 200 oranges out of which 40 are bad. 10 oranges are selected
for inspection. Find the probability that a) all 10 are good b) all 10 are bad
c)At least two are bad. D) at least one is bad.
2) Five men in a company of 20 are graduates. If 3 men are picked out of 20
at random. What is the probability that a) they are all graduates?
b) at least one is a graduate
3) A bag contains 8 one rupee coins ,6 50 paisa coins and 4 twenty paisa coins
If 3 coins are taken, what is the probability that a) all three are one rupee coins
4) The odds against manager A settling a wage dispute with the workers are 8:6and
odds in favor of manager B settling the same dispute are 14:16. What is the chance
that neither settles the dispute, if the they both try to solve the dispute
independently. What is the probability that the dispute is settled?

Set – B
1) A problem is given to three students whose chances of solving it are .5, .4,.3
What is the probability that a) the problem is solved b) exactly one will solve the
problem?
2)Three persons A, B, C shoot at a target. The probability A will shoot at the target
Is 1/3, that of B is 1/4 and that of C is 1/5. If all three shoot simultaneously what is
the probability a) all will hit the target b) at least one will hit the target c) exactly
two of them will hit the target
3) Ram can hit a target 4 time out of 6 shots. John 3 times out of 5 shots where as
Salim 2 times out of 4 shots. They fire shots together once. What is the probability
that a) exactly two shots hit the target b) none hits the target?
Set –C
1The probability that Krishna will be alive in next 10 years is 7/15, and that
Hari will be alive is 7/10. Find the probability that both will be dead in 10 years
2)A man and his wife appear for an interview for two posts. The probability that
the husband will be selected is 1/5 and that of the wife is 1/7. What is the
probability a) both of them will be selected b) only one of them will be selected?
3) The probability of Arun passing an examination is 4/5 and Bina passing the same
examination is 6/7. Find the probability A) only Arun will pass the exam b) only one
of them will pass the exam c) none of them will pass the exam d) at least one will
pass the exam
Set- D
1) A survey of a sample of Business students resulted in the following information
regarding the gender of the individual and their selected major

Gender Management Marketing Others Total

Male 40 10 30 80
Female 30 20 70 120

What is the probability of selecting a) a student who is majoring in management

given that the person is a female b) a student who is not taking marketing given
that the person is a male c) a student who is majoring in management?

2) The personal department of a company has records which show the following
details of 200 engineers

Age Bachelor’s degree Master’s degree

Below 30 90 10
30-40 20 30
Above 40 40 10

If one engineer is selected at random, find the probability that

a) he has only a bachelor’s degree b) he has a master’s degree given that he is
above 40 c) he is below 30 given that he has only a Bachelor’s degree
 3) The manager of a local golf course, recently conducted a study of the types of
golf balls used by golfers based on their handicap level. A joint frequency table
for the 100 golfers covered on the survey is shown below

Handicap Strata Titlist Nike others

≤ 2 2 5 8 3
3≤ 9 5 7 9 10
≥ 10 7 8 10 22

What is the probability of having a) a golfer with handicap less than 9?

b) a player will use a strata golf ball C) if a player comes with a Nike golf ball,
what is the probability that he has a handicap of at least 10? d) a person is using
a strata ball and having a handicap ≤ 2

Set- E
1) If A and B are two events such that P(AUB) =.75 ,PA(Ç B) =.15 and
P( Bc ) =.9 find P(A)
2) If E and F are two events associated with a random experiment for which P€
=.6 P (E and F) =.42 P (E or F) =.85 find P(F)
3) If P(A) =.2 P (A U B) =.6, A and B are independent, find P(B)
4) If A and B are independent events and P(A) =.45 P ( A Ç B) =.15 find P(B)
5) The probability that at least one of the events A and B occur is .6 If A and B
occur simultaneously with probability .2 evaluate P (Ac)+P(Bc)
6) If A and B are two independent events such that P(A) .30 and P(B)=.60
a) Find P (not A but B) b) P (neither A nor B)
7) If A, B, C are three mutually exclusive exhaustive events such that
P(B)=3/2 P(A) and P(C)=1/2 P(B) find P(A)
7) If A, B, C are three events such that P(A) =.4 , P(B)=.3 and P(C)=.8
P(AÇB)=.8 ,P(AÇC) =.28 ,P(AÇBÇC)=.2 find P (BÇC)
 Set- X
Problems on Sample space
1) Two unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously Writ e down the sample space.
What is the probability of getting a) both heads b) one head and the other tail
c) at least one head?
2) Three unbiased coins are tossed. Write down the sample space
a) What is the probability of getting all three faces as heads
b) at least one head c) two heads and one tail
3) Two unloaded dice are cast. Write down the sample space
What is the probability of getting a) the sum of the faces as 9
b) the sum of the faces is not 5 c) the product of the faces is 12
d) One face is 6 e) doublets f) the sum is less than 6 g) the sum is 13

Set- Y
1) A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of playing cards. Find the probability
getting a) a red queen b) no: between 5and 8 c) a number card d) a face card
a king or a queen
If two cards are drawn what is the probability of getting a) both face cards
b) a king and a queen c) both diamond d) one spade and the other heart
2) In a pack of well shuffled playing cards two cards drop on the floor
What is the probability that a) both are of different colors b) are of same suit
3) A pack of 50 different tickets are numbered 1-50. 2 tickets are drawn from them
What is the probability that a) both are prime numbers b) one is a multiple of 7
and the other is a multiple of11
 Problems on Baye’s theorem

1) A company has two plants to manufacture scooters. Plant A manufactures

80%of the scooters and plant B manufactures the rest. In plant A 85% of the
scooters are rated standard quality while in plant B ,65% are rated standard
quality. If a scooters is selected at random and found to be of standard quality;
what is the probability that it is from plant A?
2) In a bolt factory, three machines A, B, C produce 25% ,35%, and 40% bolts
respectively. Of these 5% ,4%, and 2% are found to be defectively produced in the
respective machines. A single bolt is drawn at random from a day’s production and is
found to be defective. Determine the probability that it was produced by factory B
3) A factory has three machines A, B, C producing 1000 ,2000 ,3000 bolts per day
respectively. A produces 1% defective, B produces 1.5% defective and C produces
2% defectives A bolt is drawn at random from the entire produce and is found to be
defective. What is the probability that it was produced by machine C?
4)The probability of A, B, C becoming managers are .5,.3,.2 respectively. The
probability that the new bonus scheme will be introduced if A, B, C become
managers are .3,.5,.8 respectively. If the bonus scheme is introduced what is the
probability that it was introduced by B
5) The chance that a doctor will diagnose a disease correctly is 60%. The chance that
the patient will die by the treatment after correct diagnosis is 40% and the chance of
death by wrong diagnosis is 70%. A patient of the doctor who had the disease died.
What is the chance that the disease was correctly diagnosed?
6) Two computers are to be marketed. The sales man who is assigned the job of
finding customers for them has 60% and 40% chances respectively of selling them
The two computers can be sold independently. Given that he was able to sell one
computer what is the probability that the computer A was sold