1. in how many ways can five students line up for lunch at cafe?

In how many ways can they line

up if two of them refuse to follow each other?

2. State the axioms of probability i.e. the properties that a probability function p has to satisfy.

3. Show that if B is an event such that p (B) =1, then for all events A, p (A∩B) =P (A).

4. The probability of getting an even number if a card is drawn from a box containing 12
identical cards numbered 1,2,3,…………………,12 is

5. 25% of student in a college graduate with honor while 20% of them were honor graduates who
got good jobs. Find the probability of a random chosen graduate to get a good job if he/she
graduates with honors?

6. Two fair dices are rolled; let the scores obtained be x 1 and x 2 , and let S= x 1+ x 2 denote the total
score. What is the probability that both dice show an odd score?

7. A student is known to answer 3 questions out of 5, and another student 5 out of 7. If a problem
is given to both of them, assuming independent work, find the probability that

a) Both; b) any one; c) none; d) only one of them will solve it.

8. Let E and F be two events of an experiment where p (E) =0.35, P (F) =0.15 and p (E∩F)
=0.03. Then p ( É ꓴ F́ )?

9. In a group of 200 students, 138 are enrolled in a mathematics course, 115 are enrolled in a
physics course, and 91 are enrolled in both. Draw a suitable Venn-diagram and fill in the
numbers associated with the various regions. Then, find the number of students who are enrolled
for a) Only mathematics; b) only physics; c) either course; d) neither course.