CA – FOUNDATION 1/6.

What’s the probability that the problem will

be solved.
(a) 1/6 (b) 5/6 (c) 1 (d) none of these
MATHS SECTIONAL TEST – 4 15. A, B and C are three mutually exclusive and
exhaustive events such that P(A)=2P(B)=3P(C).
CHAPTERS – 8, 12, 15, 16 What is P(B)?
(a) 6/11 (b) 3/11 (c) 1/6 (d) 1/3
16. If P (A) = 4/9; then the odd against the event ‘A’ is
1. An important discrete probability distribution is
(a) 4:9 (b) 4:5 (c) 5:4 (d) 4:14
(a) poisson distribution. (b) Normal distribution.
(c) Cauchy distribution (d) Log normal distribution. 17. Pointing a man to photo graph, a man is said to a
woman, “His mother is the only daughter of your
2. In a discrete random variable x follows uniform
father”. How is the woman is related to the man in
distribution and assumes only the values 8 , 9, 11,
the photograph?
15, 18, 20. Then P(x = 12) is
(a) Sister (b) Mother (c) Wife (d) Daughter
(a) 1/6 (b) 0 (c) 1/7 (d) none
18. Moni is daughter of Sheela. Sheela is wife of my
3. Two broad divisions of probability are wife’s brother. How Moni is related to my wife?
(a) Subjective probability and objective probability
(a) Cousin (b) Niece (c) Sister (d) Sister-in-law
(b) Deductive probability and non-deductive probability
(c) Statistical probability and Mathematical probability
19. The probability mass function of binomial
(d) None of these. distribution is given by
(a) f(x) = p^x q^n-x.
4. If P(A n B) = 0 then the two events A and B are
(b) f(x) = nCx p^x q^n-x
(a) Mutually exclusive (b) Exhaustive
(c) f(x) = ncx q^x p^n-x.
(c) Equally likely (d) Independent.
(d) f(x) = nCx p^n-x q^x
5. The probability that a leap year will have 53 20. If f (x) = 3e^–3x + 2e^3x then f ''(x) is
(a) 6 f (x) (b) 3 f (x) (c) 9 f (x) (d) none
Sundays is :
(a) 1/7 (b) 2/7 (c) 3/7 (d) 1/53 21. Assuming that one-third of the population are tea
drinkers and each of 1000 enumerators takes a
6. C is wife of B. E is the son of C A is the brother of B
sample of 8 individuals to find out whether they
and father of D. What is the relationship of E to D?
are tea drinkers or not, how many enumerators
(a) Mother (b) Sister (c) Brother (d) Cousin
are expected to report that five or more people
7. M is the son of P. Q is the grand-daughter of O, are tea drinkers?
who is the husband of P. How is M related to O?
(a) 100 (b) 95 (c) 88 (d) 90
(a) Son (b) Daughter (c) Mother (d) Father
22. Out of 128 families with 4 children each, how
8. X and Y are brothers. R is the father of Y. S is the many are expecled to have at least one boy and
brother of T and maternal uncle of X. What is T to
one girl?
R?
(a) 100 (b) 105 (c) 108 (d) 112
(a) Mother (b) Wife (c) Sister (d) Brother
23. If a binomial distribution is fitted to the following
9. The gradient of the curve y = 2x3 – 3x2 – 12x + 8 at data:
x = 0 is
x 0 1 2 3 4
(a) –12 (b) 12 (c) 0 (d) none of these
f 16 25 32 17 10
10. If f (x) = e^5x + e^ –5x then f ''(x) is then the sum of the expected frequencies for x :::: 2, 3 and
(a) 5 f (x) (b) f (x) (c) 25 f (x) (d) none 4 would be
11. If y^3 . x^5 = (x+y)^8, then dy/dx is (a) 58 (b) 59 (c) 60 (d) 61
(a)y/x (b)-y/x (c)y^5/x^3 (d) None 24. X is a Poisson variate satisfying the following
12. Let X be a random variable with the following condition
distribution 9 P (X = 4) + 90 P (X = 6) = P (X = 2).
X -2 4 8 What is the value of P (X < I)?
P(x) 1/6 1/3 1/2 (a) 0.5655 (b) 0.6559 (c) 0.7358 (d) 0.8201
Find expected value of the random variable 25. A random-variable x follows Poisson distribution
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8 and. its coefficient of variation is 50. What is the
13. If two letters are taken at random from the word value of P (x > 1 / x > 0)?
HOME, what is the Probability that none of the (a) 0.1876 (b) 0.2341 (c) 0.9254 (d) 0.8756
letters would be vowels? 26. A renowned hospital usually admits 200 patients
(a) 1/6 (b) ½ (c) 1/ 3 (d) 1/4 every day. One per cent patients, on an average.
14. A probability in statistics is given to five students A, require special room facilities. On one particular
B, C, D and E. Their chances of is 1/2, 1/3,1/4, 1/5, morning, it was found that only one special room is
 available. What is the probability that more than 3 b.
patients would require special room facilities?
(a) 0.1428 (b) 0.1732 (c) 0.2235 (d) 0.3450

27. If P(A) = 1, then the event A is known as

(a) symmetric event (b) dependent event
(c) improbable event (d) sure event. c.
28. If two events A and B are independent, then
p(A n B) is???
(a) equals to P(A) + P(B) (b) equals to P(A) x P(B)
(c) equals to P(A) x P(B/ A) (d) equals to P(B) x P(A/B). d. None of the above.
29. Four digits 1,2,4 and 6 are selected at random to 37. A binomial distribution has n= 48, p = 1/4 . Then SD
form a four digit number. What is the probability is
that the number so formed, would be divisible by (a) 12 (b) 3 (c) 6 (d) 8
4? 38. Five coins tossed 3200 times. The number of times
(a) 1/2 (b) 1/5 (c) 1/4 (d) 1/3 5 heads appeared is
30. The probability distribution of a random variable x (a) 500 (b) 1200 (c) 200 (d) 100
is given below: 39. Answer the question on the basis of the following:
x: 1 2 4 5 6 (i) F is the brother of A.
P: 0.15 0.25 0.20 0.30 0.10 (ii) G is the daughter of A.
What is the standard deviation of x? (iii) K is the sister of F.
(a) 1.49 (c)1.69 (iv) G is the sister of C.
(b) 1.56 (d) 1.72 Who is the uncle of G?
31. A packet of 10 electronic components is known to (a) A (b) C (c) K (d) F
include 3 defectives. If 4 components are selected 40. Which one is uniparametric distribution?
from the packet at random, what is the expected (a) Binomial (b) Poisson (c) Normal (d) Hyper geometric
value of the number of defective?
(a) 1.20 (c)1.69
(b) 1. 21 (d) 1.72
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32. If y = x^x^x^x...................... then dy/dx is
(a) y / [x (1 - ylog x)] (b) y^2/ [x(1 - logx)]
(c) y^2/ [x(1-ylogx)] (d) none
33. Read the following information carefully to answer
the questions that follow.
I. ‘P + Q’ means ‘P is father of Q’
II. ‘P - Q’ means ‘P is mother of Q’
III. ‘P × Q’ means ‘P is brother of Q’
IV. ‘P ÷ Q’ means ‘P is sister of Q’
Which of the following means ‘M’ is maternal uncle of T?
(a) M÷K-T (b) M×K-T (c) M×K+T (d) M÷K+T
34. Find the gradient of the curve y = 3x^2-5x+4 at the
point (1, 2)
(a) 1 (b) -1 (c) 0 (d) 2
35. Evaluate
(a) x log (x+1) – x + log (x+1) + c
(b) x2 log (x +1)-x2 + log (x2 +1) + c
(c) x log (x +1) - x2 + log (x +1) + c
(d) None
36. Evaluate

a.