1 4

(a) (b)
1296 6
1295
DPP 8 Random Variable, Binomial distribution (c) 1 (d)
1296
1. 8 coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability 9. A man makes attempts to hit the target. The
of getting at least 6 heads is [AISSE 1985] 3
57 229 probability of hitting the target is . Then the
(a) (b) 5
64 256 probability that A hit the target exactly 2 times in
7 37 5 attempts, is
(c) (d)
64 256 144 72
(a) (b)
2. In a box containing 100 eggs, 10 eggs are rotten. 625 3125
The probability that out of a sample of 5 eggs 216
none is rotten if the sampling is with replacement (c) (d) None of these
625
is [MP PET 1991]
5 5 10. If a dice is thrown 5 times, then the probability of
 1  1 getting 6 exact three times, is
(a)   (b)  
 10  5 125 125
5 5
(a) (b)
9  9  388 3888
(c)   (d)  
5  10  625 250
(c) (d)
3. If the probability that a student is not a swimmer 23328 2332
is 1/5, then the probability that out of 5 students 11. The binomial distribution for which mean = 6 and
one is swimmer is variance = 2, is
4 4 6 9
4 1 4 1 2 1 2 1
(a) 5
C1     (b) 5
C1   (a)  +  (b)  + 
5 5 5 5 3 3 3 3
4 6 9
4 1  1 2  1 2
(c)   (d) None of these (c)  +  (d)  + 
5 5 3 3 3 3
4. The probability of getting 4 heads in 8 throws of a 12. A dice is thrown ten times. If getting even number
coin, is is considered as a success, then the probability of
1 1 four successes is
(a) (b) 4 6
2 64 1 1
(a) 10
C4   (b) 10
C4  
8
C4 C4 8  2  2
(c) (d,) 8 10
8 28 1 1
(c) 10
C4   (d) 10
C6  
5. A fair coin is tossed n times. If the probability  2  2
that head occurs 6 times is equal to the 13. If the mean and variance of a binomial variate X
probability that head occurs 8 times, then n is are 2 and 1 respectively, then the probability that
equal to X takes a value greater than 1, is
[Kurukshetra CEE 1998; AMU 2000]
2 4
(a) 15 (b) 14 (a) (b)
3 5
(c) 12 (d) 7
7 15
6. If three dice are thrown together, then the (c) (d)
probability of getting 5 on at least one of them is 8 16
125 215 14. At least number of times a fair coin must be
(a) (b) tossed so that the probability of getting at least
216 216
one head is at least 0.8, is
1 91
(c) (d) (a) 7 (b) 6
216 216
(c) 5 (d) None of these
7. If a dice is thrown 7 times, then the probability 15. A biased coin with probability p, 0 < p < 1, of heads
of obtaining 5 exactly 4 times is
4 3 3 4
is tossed until a head appears for the first time. If
1 5 1 5 the probability that the number of tosses required
(a) 7
C4     (b) 7
C4    
6 6 6 6 2
is even is , then p =
4 3 3 4 5
1 5 1 5
(c)     (d)     1 1
6 6 6 6 (a) (b)
2 3
8. If x denotes the number of sixes in four
consecutive throws of a dice, then P (x = 4) is [BIT Ranchi 1991]
 1 23. The items produced by a firm are supposed to
(c) (d) None of these
4 contain 5% defective items. The probability that a
16. The probability of a bomb hitting a bridge is sample of 8 items will contain less than 2
1 defective items, is [MP PET 1993]
and two direct hits are needed to destroy it. 7 6
2 27  19  533  19 
(a)   (b)  
The least number of bombs required so that the 20  20  400  20 
probability of the bridge beeing destroyed is 7 6
153  1  35  1 
greater then 0.9, is (c)   (d)  
20  20  16  20 
(a) 8 (b) 7
(c) 6 (d) 9 3
24. The probability that a man can hit a target is .
17. If X follows a binomial distribution with 4
parameters n = 6 and p. If 9 P ( X = 4) = P ( X = 2), He tries 5 times. The probability that he will hit
the target at least three times is
then p =
291 371
1 1 (a) (b)
(a) (b) 364 464
3 2 471 459
1 (c) (d)
(c) (d) 1 502 512
4 25. A fair coin is tossed a fixed number of times. If
18. A die is tossed thrice. If getting a four is the probability of getting 7 heads is equal to that
considered a success, then the mean and variance of getting 9 heads, then the probability of getting
of the probability distribution of the number of 3 heads is
successes are [DSSE 1987] 35 35
(a) 12 (b) 14
1 1 1 5 2 2
(a) , (b) ,
2 12 6 12 7
(c) 12 (d) None of these
5 1 2
(c) , (d) None of these
6 2 26. A contest consists of predicting the results win,
19. A die is tossed twice. Getting a number greater draw or defeat of 7 football matches. A sent his
than 4 is considered a success. Then the variance entry by predicting at random. The probability
of the probability distribution of the number of that his entry will contain exactly 4 correct
successes is [AISSE 1979] predictions is
2 4 8 16
(a) (b) (a) 7 (b) 7
9 9 3 3
1 280 560
(c) (d) None of these (c) (d)
3 37 37
20. A die is thrown three times. Getting a 3 or a 6 is 27. If there are n independent trials, p and q the
considered success. Then the probability of at probability of success and failure respectively,
least two successes is then probability of exactly r successes
[DSSE 1981] or
2 7 Let p be the probability of happening an event and
(a) (b)
9 27 q its failure, then the total chance of r successes
1 in n trials is
(c) (d) None of these [MP PET 1999]
27
21. In a simultaneous toss of four coins, what is the (a) n
Cn+ r p r q n− r (b) n
Cr p r −1 q r +1
probability of getting exactly three heads (c) n
Cr q n− r p r (d) n
Cr p r +1 q r −1
1 1
(a) (b) 28. A die is tossed thrice. A success is getting 1 or 6
2 3 on a toss. The mean and the variance of number
1 of successes
(c) (d) None of these
4 [AI CBSE 1985]
22. A coin is tossed successively three times. The (a) µ = 1, σ 2
= 2/ 3 (b) µ = 2 / 3, σ 2 = 1
probability of getting exactly one head or 2 heads,
is [AISSE 1990] (c) µ = 2, σ 2 = 2 / 3 (d) None of these
1 1 29. If X follows a binomial distribution with
(a) (b) parameters n = 6 and p and 4 (P( X = 4)) = P( X = 2),
4 2
3 then p =
(c) (d) None of these
4 [EAMCET 1994]
 1 1 For the events E = { X is prime number} and
(a) (b)
2 4 F = { X < 4} , the probability of P(E ∪ F) is
1 1 (a) 0.50 (b,) 0.77
(c) (d)
6 3 (c) 0.35 (d) 0.87
30. The value of C for which P ( X = k) = Ck 2 can serve 37. The probability that a student is not a swimmer is
as the probability function of a random variable X 1/5. What is the probability that out of 5 students,
that takes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 is [EAMCET 1994] 4 are swimmers
1 1 [DCE 1999]
(a) (b)
30 10 4
4 1 4 1
4

1 1 (a) 5
C4   (b)  
(c) (d) 5 5 5 5
3 15 4
31. In a bag there are three tickets numbered 1, 2, 3. 14 5
(c) 5
C1   × C4 (d) None of these
A ticket is drawn at random and put back and this 55
is done four times. The probability that the sum 38. An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails.
of the numbers is even, is Find the probability that in 4 trials there will be
41 39 at least three success
(a) (b)
81 81 [AMU 1999]
40 4 8
(c) (d) None of these (a) (b)
81 27 27
32. In tossing 10 coins, the probability of getting 16 24
exactly 5 heads is (c) (d)
27 27
9 63
(a) (b) 39. The mean and variance of a binomial distribution
128 256 are 6 and 4. The parameter n is
1 193 (a) 18 (b) 12
(c) (d)
2 256
(c) 10 (d) 9
33. The probability that a bulb produced by a factory
40. Five coins whose faces are marked 2, 3 are tossed.
will fuse after 150 days of use is 0.05. What is the
The chance of obtaining a total of 12 is
probability that out of 5 such bulbs none will fuse
[MP PET 2001; Pb. CET 2000]
after 150 days of use
1 1
 19 
5
 19 
5
(a) (b)
(a) 1 −   (b)   32 16
 20   20 
3 5
5 5 (c) (d)
3 1 16 16
(c)   (d) 90  
4 4 41. A bag contains 2 white and 4 black balls. A ball is
34. A dice is thrown 5 times, then the probability that drawn 5 times with replacement. The probability
an even number will come up exactly 3 times is that at least 4 of the balls drawn are white is
5 1 8 10
(a) (b) (a) (b)
16 2 141 243
3 3 11 8
(c) (d) (c) (d)
16 2 243 41
35. The records of a hospital show that 10% of the 42. A coin is tossed 2n times. The chance that the
cases of a certain disease are fatal. If 6 patients number of times one gets head is not equal to the
are suffering from the disease, then the number of times one gets tail is
probability that only three will die is 2n
(2n!)  1  (2n!)
[MP PET 1998] (a)   (b) 1 −
(n!)2  2  (n!)2
(a) 1458 × 10 −5 (b) 1458 × 10 −6
(2n!) 1
(c) 41 × 10 −6
(d) 8748 × 10 −5 (c) 1 − . (d) None of these
(n!)2 4 n
36. A random variable X has the probability
distribution 43. The mean and variance of a binomial distribution
are 4 and 3 respectively, then the probability of
I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 getting exactly six successes in this distribution is
P(X 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 10
1 3
6 6
1 3
10

) 5 3 2 0 0 8 7 5 (a) 16
C6     (b) 16
C6    
4 4 4 4
 10
1 3
6 6
1 3
6 51. A coin is tossed 3 times. The probability of getting
(c) 12
C6     (d) 12
C6     exactly two heads is [SCRA 1980; MNR
4 4 4 4 1979]
44. A die is tossed 5 times. Getting an odd number is 3 1
(a) (b)
considered a success. Then the variance of 8 2
distribution of success is 1
(c) (d) None of these
[AIEEE 2002] 4
8 3 52. One coin is thrown 100 times. The probability of
(a) (b) coming tail in odd number
3 8
1 1
4 5 (a) (b)
(c) (d) 2 8
5 4
3
(c) (d) None of these
45. If two coins are tossed 5 times, then the 8
probability of getting 5 heads and 5 tails is 53. A coin is tossed 3 times. The probability of
63 1 obtaining at least two heads is
(a) (b)
256 1024 or
Three coins are tossed all together. The
2 9
(c) (d) probability of getting at least two heads is
205 64
1 3
(a) (b)
46. In a binomial distribution the probability of 8 8
getting a success is 1/4 and standard deviation is
1 2
3, then its mean is (c) (d)
2 3
[EAMCET 2002]
54. A dice is thrown two times. If getting the odd
(a) 6 (b) 8 number is considered as success, then the
probability of two successes is
(c) 12 (d) 10
1 3
47. A coin is tossed 10 times. The probability of (a) (b)
2 4
getting exactly six heads is [Kerala (Engg.) 2002]
2 1
512 105 (c) (d)
(a) (b) 3 4
513 512 55. The mean and the variance of a binomial
100 distribution are 4 and 2 respectively. Then the
(c) (d) 10
C6 probability of 2 successes is
153
[AIEEE 2004]
48. If a dice is thrown twice, the probability of 28 219
occurrence of 4 at least once is (a) (b)
256 256
11 7 128 37
(a) (b) (c) (d)
36 12 256 256
35 56. If X has binomial distribution with mean np and
(c) (d) None of these
36 P( X = k)
variance npq, then is
P( X = k − 1)
49. The mean and variance of a random variable X
having a binomial distribution are 4 and 2 n−k p n−k +1 p
(a) . (b) .
respectively, then P( X = 1) is k −1 q k q

(a) 1/32 (b) 1/16 n+1 q n−1 q

(c) . (d) .
k p k +1 p
(c) 1/8 (d) 1/4
57. Two cards are drawn successively with
50. A coin is tossed n times. The probability of getting replacement from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards
head at least once is greater than 0.8, then the then the mean of the number of aces is
least value of n is (a) 1/13 (b) 3/13
[EAMCET 2003] (c) 2/13 (d) None of these
(a) 2 (b) 3 58. A sample of 4 items is drawn at a random without
replacement from a lot of 10 items. Containing 3
(c) 4 (d) 5
defective. If X denotes the number of defective
items in the sample then P(0 < x < 3) is equal to
 3 4 1 1
(a) (b) (a,) (b)
10 5 2 2n
1 1 1
(c) (d) (c) (d) None of these
2 6 2 n−1

59. A fair coin is tossed 100 times. The probability of

getting tails an odd number of times is
1 1
(a,) (b)
2 8
1 d 2 d 3 b 4 d 5 b
3
(c) (d) None of these 6 d 7 a 8 a 9 a 10 b
8
60. A man draws a card from a pack of 52 playing 11 d 12 d 13 d 14 d 15 b
cards, replaces it and shuffles the pack. He 16 a 17 c 18 d 19 b 20 b
continues this processes until he gets a card of 21 c 22 c 23 a 24 d 25 a
spade. The probability that he will fail the first
two times is [MNR 1980] 26 c 27 c 28 a 29 d 30 a
9 1 31 a 32 b 33 b 34 a 35 a
(a) (b)
16 16 36 b 37 a 38 c 39 a 40 d
9
(c,) (d) None of these 41 c 42 c 43 b 44 d 45 a
64
46 c 47 b 48 a 49 a 50 b

61. A person can kill a bird with probability 3/4. He 51 a 52 a 53 c 54 d 55 a

tries 5 times. What is the probability that he may 56 b 57 c 58 b 59 A 60 c
not kill the bird 61 D 62 B 63 B 64 A 65 a
[RPET 1997]
243 781
(a) (b)
1024 1024
1 1023
(c) (d,)
1024 1024

62. In order to get at least once a head with

probability ≥ 0.9, the number of times a coin
needs to be tossed is
[Roorkee 1989]
(a) 3 (b,) 4
(c) 5 (d) None of these
63. A bag contains 3 red and 7 black balls, two balls
are taken out at random, without replacement. If
the first ball taken out is red, then what is the
probability that the second taken out ball is also
red [Pb. CET 2000]
1 1
(a) (b,)
10 15
3 2
(c) (d)
10 21
64. The probability that a marksman will hit a target
is given as 1/5. Then his probability of at least one
hit in 10 shots, is
10
4 1
(a,) 1 −   (b)
5 5 10
1
(c) 1 − (d) None of these
5 10
65. If a coin be tossed n times then probability that
the head comes odd times is [RPET 2002]