The document contains a series of probability problems involving various distributions such as binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions. It includes calculations related to defective tools, car hire demands, printing errors, and random events like coin tosses and dice rolls. Each problem provides multiple-choice answers for the reader to select from.
The document contains a series of probability problems involving various distributions such as binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions. It includes calculations related to defective tools, car hire demands, printing errors, and random events like coin tosses and dice rolls. Each problem provides multiple-choice answers for the reader to select from.
The document contains a series of probability problems involving various distributions such as binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions. It includes calculations related to defective tools, car hire demands, printing errors, and random events like coin tosses and dice rolls. Each problem provides multiple-choice answers for the reader to select from.
The document contains a series of probability problems involving various distributions such as binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions. It includes calculations related to defective tools, car hire demands, printing errors, and random events like coin tosses and dice rolls. Each problem provides multiple-choice answers for the reader to select from.
1. Ten percent of the tools produced in a certain manufacturing process out to
be defective. Find the probability that in a simple of 10 tools chosen at random, exactly 2 will be defective, by using (a) the binomial distribution (b) the poisson distribution. 2. A car hire firm has two cars which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on each day is distributed as a poisson's distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the number of days in a year on which the car is not used 3. A manufacturer produces airmail envelopes whose weight is normally distributed with a mean 1.95 gm and standard deviation 0.05 gm. The envelpes are sold in lots of 1000. How many envelopes in a lot will heavier than 2 gm? 4. A 100 page book is known to have 200 printing errors distributed randomly through the pages. The probability that one of the pages will be found to be completely free of errors is closest to (a) 67% (b) 50% (c) 25% (d) 13% 5. The probability function for a variable x which assumes only positive x values is f x x exp where > 0. The ratio x / xˆ where x̂ is the most probable value and x is the mean value of the variable x, is 1 1 (a) 2 (b) (c) (d) 1 1
gopalpura mode, Jaipur-8769828844,9571489537 6. A random number generator outputs +1 and –1 with equal probability every time it is run. After it is run 6 times, what is the probability that the sum of the answers generated is zero? Assume that (a) 1/2 (b) 5/6 (c) 5/16 (d) 15/32 7. In a triangular lattice a particle moves from a lattice point to any of its 6 neighbouring points with equal probability, as shown in figure on the right.
The probability that the particle is back at its starting point after 3 moves is (a) 5/18 (b) 1/6 (c) 1/18 (d) 1/36 8. An unbiased die is cast twice. The probability that the positive difference (bigger-smaller) between the two numbers is 2 is (a) 1/9 (b) 2/9 (c) 1/6 (d) 1/3 9. A box contains 100 coins out of which 99 fair coins and 1 is a double- headed coin. Suppose you choose a coin at random and toss it 3 times. It turns out that the results of all 3 tosses are heads. What is the probability that the coin you have drawn is double headed one? (a) 0.99 (b) 0.925 (c) 0.075 (d) 0.01 10. There are on average 20 buses per hour at a point, but at random times. The probability that there are no buses in five minutes is closest to (a) 0.07 (b) 0.60 (c) 0.36 (d) 0.19 11. The drunks start out together at the origin, each having equal probability of making a step simultaneously to the left or right along the x-axis. The probability that they meet after n steps is 1 2n! 1 2n! 1 1 (a) n 2 (b) n 2 (c) n 2n! (d) n 2n! 4 n! 2 n! 2 4 –x/ 12. If the distribution function is x is f (x) = xe over the interval 0 < x < , then mean value is x is (a) (b) 2 (c) /2 (d) 0
13. If two ideal dice are rolled once, what is the probability of getting atleast one '6'?
gopalpura mode, Jaipur-8769828844,9571489537 (a) 11/36 (b) 1/36 (c) 10/36 (d) 5/36 14. You receive on average 5 emails per day during a 365 days year. The number of days on average on which you do not receive any emails in that year are (a) more than 5 (b) more than 2 (c) 1 (d) none of the above 15. The mean value of random variable x with probability density p x 1 2x exp x 2 x / 2 2 , is (a) 0 (b) /2 (c) –/2 (d) 16. Suppose that we toss two fair coins hundred times each. The probability that the same number of heads occur for both coins at the end of the experiment is 100 100 2 100 100 100 1 1 100 (a) 4 (b) 2 4 n0 n n0 n 100 100 2 100 100 2 1 1 100 1 100 (c) 2 4 n (d) 4 n n 0 n0 17. Three dices with faces marked 1, 2, ....., 6 are thrown together. Assuming that they are unbaised, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers that turn up is 15? (a) 1/108 (b) 3/108 (c) 5/108 (d) 7/108 18. If one person speaks that true in 70% of the cases and another in 80% of the cases, then the probability that they will contradict each other in a single event is (a) 0.36 (b) 0.38 (c) 0.40 (d) 0.42 21. If a bag cotains blue, green and red marbles, all but 15 are blue, all but 13 are red and all but 12 are green. How many are red? (a) 13 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 20 22. The probability of drawing two aces in succession from a pack of 52 cards is 2 2 1 1 (a) (b) (c) (d) 26 13 221 169 23. A card is drawin a pack containing 52 cards with 4 caces and another card is drawn from a pack of 48 cards with 8 aces. What is the probability that both are aces?
gopalpura mode, Jaipur-8769828844,9571489537 4 8 32 1 (a) (b) (c) (d) 52 48 52 48 78 24. In a coded telegram, the letters are arranged in groups of 5 letters called 'words'. How many different such words are there which contains each letter at most once? 26! 26! 26! (a) (b) (c) (d) 26 5 ! 26 5 ! 5! 5! 26 5 ! 25. In a random walk problem, if the probability that a particle is found between
2 x to x + dx is given as P (x) = e x , then mean x x is (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) (d) none of these
