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PROBABLITY
DPP : 01
01. 6 married couples are standing in a room. If 4 people are chosen at random, then the chance that exactly
one married couple is among the 4 is :
16 8 17 24
(A) (B) (C) (D)
33 33 33 33
02. A quadratic equation is chosen from the set of all the quadratic equations which are unchanged by squaring
their roots. The chance that the chosen equation has equal roots is :
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/4 (D) 2/3
03. The probability that a positive two digit number selected at random has its tens digit at least three more than

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its unit digit is
(A) 14/45

(A) 8 %
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(B) 7/45

(B) 17 %
(C) 36/45

(C) 18 %
(D) 1/6
A 5 digit number is formed by using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 without repetition. The probability that the
number is divisible by 6 is :
(D) 36 %
A cube with all six faces coloured is cut into 64 cubical blocks of the same size which are thoroughly
mixed. Find the probability that the 2 randomly chosen blocks have 2 coloured faces each.
A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of cards. Find the probability that the card is a
(i) king or a red card (ii) club or a diamond (iii) king or a queen
(iv) king or an ace (v) spade or a club (vi) neither a heart nor a king.
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07. A bag contain 5 white, 7 black, and 4 red balls, find the chance that three balls drawn at random are all
white.
08. If four coins are tossed, Two events A and B are defined as
A: No two consecutive heads occur
B: At least two consecutive heads occur.
Find P(A) and P(B). State whether the events are equally likely, mutually exclusive and exhaustive.
09. Thirteen persons take their places at a round table, Find the odds against two particular persons sitting
together.
10. A has 3 shares in a lottery containing 3 prizes and 9 blanks, B has 2 shares in a lottery containing 2 prizes
and 6 blanks. Compare their chances of success.
11. Mr. A forgot to write down a very important phone number. All he remembers is that it started with 713 and
that the next set of 4 digit involved are 1, 7 and 9 with one of these numbers appearing twice.
He guesses a phone number and dials randomly. The odds in favour of dialing the correct telephone number,
is
(A) 1 : 35 (B) 1 : 71 (C) 1 : 23 (D) 1 : 36
12. 5 persons entered the lift cabin on the ground floor of an 8 floor building. Suppose that each of them
independently and with equal probability, can leave the cabin at any other floor, starting from the first, find
the probability that all 5 persons leave at different floors.
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13. Consider a function f (x) that has zeroes 4 and 9. Given that Mr. A randomly selects a number from the set
{– 10, – 9, – 8, ..... 8, 9, 10}, what is the probability that Mr. A chooses a zero of f (x2)?
14. (a) A fair die is tossed. If the number is odd, find the probability that it is prime.

(b) Three fair coins are tossed. If both heads and tails appear, determine the probability that exactly
one head appears.
15. n different books (n  3) are put at random in a shelf. Among these books there is a particular book 'A' and
a particular book B. The probability that there are exactly 'r' books between A and B is

2 2(n  r  1) 2(n  r  2) (n  r)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
n (n  1) n (n  1) n (n  1) n (n  1)

16. Let A and B be events such that P( A) = 4/5, P(B) = 1/3, P(A/B) = 1/6, then

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(a) P(A  B) ;

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(b) P(A  B) ; (c) P(B/A) ; (d) Are A and B independent?
Nine numbers 1, 2, 3, ......, 9 are arranged in a rectangular array of matrix of order 3 so that each number
occur exactly once. Find the probability that the sum of the numbers in atleast one horizontal row is greater
than 21.
Mr. A lives at origin on the cartesian plane and has his office at (4, 5). His friend lives at (2, 3) on the same
plane. Mr. A can go to his office travelling one block at a time either in the + y or + x direction. If all possible
paths are equally likely then the probability that Mr. A passed his friends house is
(A) 1/2 (B) 10/21 (C) 1/4 (D) 11/21
I have 3 normal dice, one red, one blue and one green and I roll all three simultaneously. Let P be the
probability that the sum of the numbers on the red and blue dice is equal to the number on the green die. If
P is the written in lowest terms as a/b then the value of (a + b) equals
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(A) 79 (B) 77 (C) 61 (D) 57
20. In a hand at "whist" what is the chance that the 4 kings are held by a specified player?

Answer Key
01. A 02. A 03. A 04. C 05. 23/168
06. (i) 7/13, (ii) 1/2, (iii) 2/13, (iv) 2/13, (v) 1/2, (vi) 9/13 07. 1/56 08. 1/2 ; 1/2
09. 5:1 10. 952 to 715 11. A 12. n(S) = 85; n(A) = 8C5 · 5! 13. 4/21
14. (a) 2/3, (b) 1/2 15. B 16. (a) 1/18, (b) 43/90, (c) 5/18, (d) NO 17. 1/7
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C 4 · 48C9
18. B 19. B 20. 52
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