Lecture 3 - Probability JEE Main 2021 Crash Course

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Q1
For a student to qualify he must pass at least 2 out of 3 exams. The probability that he will pass the
first exam is p. if he fails in one of the exams then the probability of passing in the next exam is
otherwise it remains the same. Find the probability that he qualifies

Q2
An urn contains 2 white & 2 black balls. A ball is drawn at random, if it is white it is not reblaced
into the urn. Ohterwise it is replaced along with other balls of same colour. The process is repeated.
Find the probability that third ball drawn is black.

Q3
In a certain city only 2 newspaper A & B are published, it is known that of the city population
reads A & reads B while read both. It is known that of those who read A but not B
look into advertisements & of those of read B but not A look into advertisements while of
those who read both A & B look into advertisement. What percentage of people read
advertisement?

Q4
There are bags such that i th bag contains i black & 2 white balls. Two balls are
drawn from a randomly selected bag out of given bags. Then the probability that both the drawn
balls are white.

Q5
3 urns contain 6 red, 4 black, 4 red, 6 black & 5 red 5 black balls respectively. one of the urns is
selected at random & a ball is drawn from it. If the ball drawn is red then the probability that it is
drawn from 1st one.

Q6
A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die & reprots that it is a six. Find the
probability that its actually a six.

Q7
In a test an examinee either guesses or copies or knows the answer to a multiple choice question
with 4 choices. The probability that he make a guess is & the probability that he copies the
naswer is . The probability that his answer is correct given that he copies it, is . Find the
probability that he knew the answer to the question given that he correctly answered it.

Q8
Let denote the number of hours you study. The probability that can take the values , has the
following form where is same unknown constant

otherwise
What is the probability that you study at least 2 hours?

Q9
Two numbers are selected at random (without replacement) from first six positive integers. Let
denote the larger of the two numbers find

Q10
A fair dice is tossed. If 2, 3 or 5 occurs the player win that no. of rupees but if 1, 4, 6 occurs the
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player losses that number of rupees. Then find the expected amount gained/lost by playing the
game.

Q11
A purse contains 4 coins each of which a rupee or two rupee coin. Find the expected value of a coin
in that purse.

Q12
Ten coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting atlest 7 heads.

Q13
A man take a step forward with probability and backward with probability The probability
that at the end of eleven steps he is one step away from the starting point.

Q14
An urn contains 25 balls of which 10 balls bear mark ‘A’ & the remaining 15 balls bear ‘B’ mark. A
ball is drawn at random form the curve and its mark is noted & it is replaced. if 6 balls are drawn,
then
(i) all will bear A mark
(ii) not more than 2 will bear B mark
(iii) the number of balls with mark A & B will be equal
(iv) at least 1 ball will bear ‘B’ mark

Q15
The probability of a bomb hitting a bridge is . Two direct hits are necesary to destroy it. The least
number of bombs reg. so Hhat me
probability of the bridge being destroyed is greater than 0.9 is

Q16
Difference between mean & variance of a binomial variate is 2 & difference between their squares is
11. Find the probability of getting 3 success.

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