FIITJ EE CHAPTER PRACTICE PROBLEM -PROBABILITY
L I M I T E D
Part - A (Only one option correct Type)
This section contains 10 multiple choice questions. Each question has four choice (A), (B), (C)
and (D) out of which ONLY ONE is correct.
1. Die A has 4 red and 2 white faces whereas die B has 2red and 4 white faces. a coin is flipped
once. If it shows a head, the game continues by throwing die A, if it shows tail, then die B is
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to be used. If the probability that die A is used is . When it is given that red throws up
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every time in first n throws, then find the value of n?
(A)4 (B)5 (C)6 (D)7
2. Each of the n urns contains 4white and 6black balls. The (n+1)th urn contains 5 white and 5
black balls. One of the (n+1) is chosen at random and 2 balls are drawn from it without
th
replacement. Both the balls turn out to be black. If the probability that (n+1) urn was chosen
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to draw the balls is , then find the value of n?
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(A)10 (B)8 (C)6 (D)12
3. The ratio of the number of trucks along a highway, on which a petrol pump is located, to the
number of cars running along the same highway is 3:2. It is known that on an average of one
truck in thirty trucks and 2 cars in fifty cars stop at the petrol pump to be filled up with the fuel.
If a vehicle stops at the petrol pump to be filled up with the fuel, find the probability that it is a
car?
2 8 4 5
(A) (B) (C) (D)
9 9 9 9
4. Eight players P1, P2, P3, …,P8 play a knockout tournament. It is known that whenever the
players Pi and Pj play, the player Pi will win if i < j. Assuming that the players are paired at
random in each round, what is the probability that the player P4 reaches the final?
4 6 8 11
(A) (B) (C) (D)
35 35 35 35
5. m red socks and n blue socks (m>n)in a cupboard are well mixed up, where m + n 101. If
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two socks are taken out at random, the chance that they have the same colour is . Find the
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largest value of m?
(A)50 (B)55 (C)60 (D)65
6. A batch of fifty radio sets was purchased from 3 different companies A, B & C. Eighteen of
them were manufactured by A, twenty of them by B and the rest were manufactured by C.
The companies A & C produce excellent quality radio sets with probability equal to 0.9. B
produces the same with probability equal to 0.6. What is the probability of the event that the
excellent quality radio set chosen atrandom is manufactured by company B?
3 4 5 6
(A) (B) (C) (D)
13 13 13 13
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7. In a game of chance each player throws 2 unbiased dice and scores the difference between
the larger number and smaller number which arise. Two players compete and one or the
other wins if and only if he scores at least 4 more than his opponent. Find the probability that
neither player wins?
74 62 52
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
81 81 81
8. Two cards are drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that one of
them is a red card & other is a queen?
101 101 201
(A) (B) (C) (D) None
1126 1326 1326
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9. An author writes a good book with a probability of . If it is good is published with a
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2 1
probability of . If it is not, it is published with a probability of . Find the probability that he
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will get at least one book published if he writes two?
11 13 13
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
24 24 22
10. In a batch of 10 articles, 4 articles are defective 6 articles are taken from the batch for
inspection. If more than 2 articles in this batch are defective, the whole batch is rejected.
Find the probability that the batch will be rejected?
13 17 19
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
42 42 42
Part - B (One or More options correct Type)
This section contains 10 multiple choice questions. Each question has four choices (A), (B), (C)
and (D) out of which ONE or MORE are correct.
1. A fair coin is tossed times. Let then number of times head occurs.
If and are in AP, then the value of n can be
(A)7 (B)10 (C)12 (D)14
2. A bag contains four tickets marked with one ticket is drawn at random
from the bag. Let denote the event that ithdigit on the ticket is 2. Then
(A) and are independent (B) and are independent
(C) and are independent (D) are independent
3. If A and B are independent events such that
(A) A,B are mutually exclusive (B) A and B are independent
A A
(C) A,B are independent (D) P P 1
B B
4. A student appears for tests I, II and III. The student is successful if he passes either in testes
I and II or tests I and III. The probabilities of the student passing in tests I, II, III are p, q and
1
, then
2
2 1
(A) p=1, q=0 (B) p ,q
3 2
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(C) p ,q (D)there are infinitely many values of p and q
5 3
5. Let X be a set containing n elements. If two subsets A and B of X are picked at random, the
probability that A and B have the same number of elements is
2n
C 1 1.3.5....(2n 1) 3n
(A) 2n n (B) 2n (C) (D)
2 Cn 2n.n! 4n
6. Three six faced fair dice are thrown together. The probability that the sum of the numbers
appearing on the dice is is
(k 1)(k 1) k(k 2) k 1 1 k2
(A) (B) (C) C2 (D)
432 432 216 432
7. A card is selected at random from cards numbered as 00, 01, ….99. An event is said to have
occurred. If product of digits of the card number is 16. If card is selected 5 times with
replacement each time, then the probability that the event occurs exactly three times is
2 2 3 2
5 3 97 5 3 97
(A) C3 (B) C3
100 100 100 100
3 3
0.3 9.7
5
(C) C3 (D) 10(0.03)3 (0.97)2
100 100
8. A random variable follows binomial distribution with mean and variance . Then
(A) (B)
(C) is an integer (D) is an integer
9. Three numbers are chosen at random without replacement from . The
probability that minimum of the chosen number is or their maximum is , cannot exceed
(A) (B) (C) (D)
10. A square is inscribed in a circle. If is the probability that a randomly chosen point of the
circle lies within the square and is the probability that the point lies outside the square, then
(A) (B) (C) (D)
Part - C (Integer value correct Type)
This section contains 8 questions. The answer to each question is a single digit integer, ranging
from 0 to 9 (both inclusive).
1. A special die is so constructed that the probabilities of throwing and are
and
respectively. It two such dice are
1 2
thrown and the probability of getting a sum equal to 9 lies between and . Then the
9 9
number of integral solutions of k is _____
8 1
2. An artillery target may be either at point I with probability
or at point II with probability .
9 9
We have 21 shells each of which can be fired either at point I or II. Each shell may hit the
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target independently at the other shell with probability .If the number of shells must be fired
2
x
at point I to hit the target with maximum probability is x, then the value of is _____
2
3. Seven digits from the numbers and 9 are written in random order. If the
probability that this seven – digit number is divisible by 9 is p, then the value of 9p is _____
4. The chance of one event happening is the square of the chance of a second event, but odds
against the first are the cubes of the odds against the second. It is the chance of second
event, the value of is _____
5. A game is played with a special fair cubic die which has one red side, two blue sides and
three green sides. The result is the colour of the top side after the die has been rolled. If the
die is rolled repeatedly, the probability that the second blue result occurs on or before the
3p 2q
tenth roll can be expressed in the form of . Where p,q,r are positive integers, the
3r
value of pq+r is____
6. A player tosses an unbiased coin and is to score two points for every head turned up and one
point for every tail turned up. If Pn denotes the probability this score is exactly n points.
Compute 8P3 .
7. Integers a, b, c and d not necessarily distinct, are chosen independently and at random from
p
the set S={0,1,2,…2015}. If the probability that |adbc| is even is where p and q are
q
relatively prime, then the value of (qp) is _______
8. The altitude through A of ABC meets BC at D and the circumscribed circle at E. If D(2,3),
p
E(5,5) .The ordinate of orthocentre being a natural number, if is the probability that the
q
orthocentre lies on the lines then the value of [p+q] is _____
where [.] is the greatest integer function.
Part - D (Matrix Matching Type)
1. Match the following
List – I List – II
(P) If the probability of getting at least one head is at least 0.8 is n trials (1) 2
then value of n can be
(Q) One mapping is selected at random from all mappings of the set s (2) 3
= {1,2,3,…n} into itself. If the probability that the mapping being
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one-one is then find the value of n is
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(R) If is selected at random from set {1, 2, ….10} and the probability (3) 4
2
that the quadratic equation 2x 2mx m 1 0 has real roots is k,
then value of 5k is more than
(S) A man firing at a distant target as 20% chance of hitting the target (4) 5
in one shoot. If P be the probability of hitting the target in
attempts where , then the ratio of maximum
and minimum value if less than
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2. Let A and B are two independent event such that P(A) and P(B)
3 4
List – I List – II
(P) is equal to (1)
(Q) A (2)
P
A B
(R) (3)
is equal to
(S) (4)
is equal to
3. Bag contains some white and some black balls, all combinations being equally likely. Then
total number of balls in the bag is 12. Four balls are drawn at random from the bag at random
without replacement.
List – I List – II
(P) Probability that all the four balls are black is equal to (1)
(Q) If the bag contains 10 black and 2 white balls then the (2)
probability that all four balls are black
(R) If all the four balls are black, then the probability that the bag (3)
contains 10 black balls is equal to
(S) Probability that two balls are black and two are white is (4)
4. whole numbers are randomly chosen and multiplied,
List – I List – II
(P) The probability that the last digit is 1,3,7 or 9 is (1)
(Q) The probability that the last digit is 2,4,6,8 is (2)
(R) The probability that the last digit is 5 is (3)
(S) The probability that the last digit is zero is (4)
ANSWER KEY
Single Correct Questions
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A
5. B 6. B 7. A 8. B
9. B 10. C
Multiple Correct Questions
1. AD 2. ABC 3. BCD 4. ABCD
5. AC 6. AC 7. BD 8. ABC
9. AB 10. CD
Integer Type Questions
1. 0 2. 6 3. 1 4. 3
5. 7 6. 5 7. 3 8. 8
Matrix Matching Type Questions
1. P – 2,3,4; Q – 3; R – 1, 2; S – 1, 2, 3, 4
2. P – 2; Q – 3; R – 4; S–3
3. P – 2; Q – 1; R – 3; S–2
4. P – 3; Q – 1; R – 2; S–4
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