1. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random.

What is
the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5
Answer 9/10
2. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What
is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?
Answer 10 / 21
3. In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly.
What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?
Answer 1/3
4. What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?
Answer 1/9
5. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting atmost two heads/
Answer 7 /8
6. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers
whose product is even?
Answer 3 /4
7. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The
probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected, is
Answer 21 / 46
8. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is
the probability of getting a prize?
Answer 2/7
9. From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the
probability of both the cards being kings?
Answer 1/221
10. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is 5/12.
11. Suppose there is a school with 40% boys and 60% girls as its students. The female
students wear trousers or skirts in equal numbers; the boys all wear trousers. An
observer sees a student from a distance, and what the observer can see is that this
student is wearing trousers. What is the probability this student is a girl?
12. An urn contains five balls. Two balls are drawn and found to be white. The
probability that all the balls are white is:
Answer ½
13. A bag ‘A’ contains 2 white and 3 red balls and a bag ‘B’ contains 4 white and 5 red
balls. One ball is drawn at random from one of the bags and is found to be red. The
probability that it was drawn from bag B is:
Answer 25 /52
14. A doctor is to visit a patient. From the past experience, it is known that the
probabilities that he will come by train, bus, and scooter or by other means of
transport are respectively 0.3, 0.2, 0.1 and 0.4. The probabilities that he will be late
are 1/4 , 1/3 and 1/12, if he comes by train, bus and scooter respectively, but if he
comes by other means of transport, then he will not be late. When he arrives, he is
late. The probability that he comes by bus is:
Answer 4 / 9
15. A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a
six. Find the probability that it is actually a six.
 Answer 3 /8
16. Suppose you roll two dice. What is the probability the sum is 8?
Answer 1/6
17. 2. Suppose a box has 3 red marbles and 2 black ones. We select 2 marbles. What is
the probability that second marble is red given that the rst one is red?
Answer ½
18. 3. A family has 2 children. Given that one of the children is a boy, what is the
probability that the other child is also a boy?
Answer 1/3
19. Suppose the test for HIV is 99% accurate in both directions and 0.3% of the
population is HIV positive. If someone tests positive, what is the probability they
actually are HIV positive?
Answer 23%
20. Suppose 36% of families own a dog, 30% of families own a cat, and 22% of the
families that have a dog also have a cat. A family is chosen at random and found to
have a cat. What is the probability they also own a dog?
Answer 26.4%
21. Suppose 30% of the women in a class received an A on the test and 25% of the men
received an A. The class is 60% women. Given that a person chosen at random
received an A, what is
22. the probability this person is a women?
Answer 9 / 14
23. In a Binomial Distribution, if ‘n’ is the number of trials and ‘p’ is the probability of
success, then the mean value is given by ___________
Answer np
24. In a Binomial Distribution, if p, q and n are probability of success, failure and number
of trials respectively then variance is given by ___________
Answer npq
25. If ‘X’ is a random variable, taking values ‘x’, probability of success and failure being
‘p’ and ‘q’ respectively and ‘n’ trials being conducted, then what is the probability
that ‘X’ takes values ‘x’? Use Binomial Distribution
Answer P(X = x) = nCx px q(n-x)
26. State True / False
In a Binomial Distribution, the mean and variance are equal.
Answer False
27. For what conditions does the Binomial distribution tend to the Poisson distribution.
Answer The number of trials are large and the probability of success is very small.
28. In a Poisson Distribution, if ‘n’ is the number of trials and ‘p’ is the probability of
success, then the mean value is given by?
Answer np=c
29. If ‘m’ is the mean of a Poisson Distribution, then variance is given by
Answer m
30. State True / False. In a Poisson Distribution, the mean and variance are equal.
Answer True.
31. If ‘m’ is the mean of Poisson Distribution, the P(0) is given by ___________
Answer e-m
32. The recurrence relation between P(x) and P(x +1) in a Poisson distribution is given by
___________
Answer (x+1) P(x+1) – m P(x) = 0
33. The shape of the Normal Curve is ___________
Answer Bell Shaped
34. Normal Distribution is symmetric is about ___________
Answer mean
35. For a standard normal variate, the value of mean is?
Answer 1
36. The area under a standard normal curve is?
Answer 1
37. The standard normal curve is symmetric about the value ___________
Answer 0
38. For a standard normal variate, the value of Standard Deviation is
Answer 1
39. Normal Distribution is also known as ___________
Answer Gaussian Distribution.
40. Skewness of Normal distribution is ___________
Answer 0.
41. State True or False
For a normal distribution its mean, median, mode are equal.
Answer True.
42.
43. In Normal distribution, the highest value of ordinate occurs at
Answer Mean.
44. The mean of exponential distribution is given as __________
Answer 1/λ.
45. A random variable X has an exponential distribution with probability distribution
function is given by
f(x)= 3e-3x for x>0 = 0 otherwise
Find probability that X is not less than 2.
Answer e-6
46. Consider a random variable with exponential distribution with λ=1. Compute the
probability for P (X>3).
Answer e-3
47. Sum of n independent Exponential random variables (λ) results in
Answer Gamma Distribution.
48. If the value of p is smaller or lesser than 0.5 then the binomial distribution is
classified as,
Answer Skewed to the right.