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At checkout counter customers arrive at an average of 2.0 per minute. Find the probabilities 7
1 that (i) At most 3 will arrive in any given minute (ii) At least 3 will arrive during an interval
of 4 minutes (iii) At most 10 will arrive during an interval of 6 minutes. WINTER 2018
A class consists of 6 girls and 10 boys. If a committee of three is chosen at random from the 4
2 class, find the probability that, (i) three boys are selected; (ii) exactly two girls are selected.
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In how many different ways can the director of a research laboratory choose 2 chemists from 3
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among 7 applicants and 3 physicists from among 9 applicants? WINTER 2018
4 A diagnostic test has a probability of 0.95 of giving a positive result when applied to a 7
person suffering from a certain disease, and a probability 0.10 of giving a (false) positi
when applied to a non – sufferer. It is estimated that 0.5% of the population are suffere
Suppose that the test is now administered to a person about whom we have no relevan
information relating to the disease (apart from the fact that he/she comes from this
population). Calculate the following probabilities:
(a) That the test result will be positive;
(b) That, given a positive result, the person is a sufferer;
(c) That, given a negative result, the person is a non – sufferer;
(d) That the person will be misclassified. SUMMER
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5 In a box, 100 bulbs are supplied out of which 10 bulbs have defects of type A, 5 bulbs have 4
defects of type B and 2 have defects of both types. Find the probabilities that a bulb to be
drawn at random has a B type defect under the condition that it has an A type defect.
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6 A company has two plants to manufacture hydraulic machines. At plant I manufactures 7
70% of the hydraulic machines and at plant II manufactures 30%. At plant I, 80% of
hydraulic machines are rated standard quality and at plant II, 90% of hydraulic machines
are rated standard quality. A machine is picked up at random and is found to be of standard
quality. What is the chance that it has come from plant I? WINTER 2017
7 A room has three lamp sockets. From a collection of 10 light bulbs of which only 6 are 4
good. A person selects 3 at random and puts them in the socket. What is the probability that
the room will have light?
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9 The probability that a person catch swine flu virus is 0.001. find the probability that out of
3000 persons (i) exactly 3, (ii) more than 2 persons will catch the virus. ( F(2;𝝀) = 0.42) )
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10 Four cards are drawn from a pack of cards. Find the probability that (i) all are diamonds 3
(ii) there is one card of each suit (iii) there are two spades and two hearts. WINTER 2016
11 Assume that on the average one telephone number out of fifteen called between 1 p.m. and 4
2 p.m. on week days is busy. What is the probability that if 6 randomly selected telephone
numbers are called (i) not more than three, (ii) at least three of them would be busy?
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12 A university warehouse has received a shipment of 25 printers, of which 10 are laser printers and 4
15 are inkjet models. If 6 of these 25 are selected at random to be checked by a particular
technician, what is the probability that exactly 3 of those selected are laser printers (so that the
other 3 are inkjets)? WINTER 2019
13 Out of 800 families with 4 children each, how many families would be expected to have (i) 2 girls
and 2 boys (ii) at least one boy (iii) no girl (iv) at most two girls? Assume equal probabilities for boys
and girls. WINTER 2019

12 State Baye’s theorem. A microchip company has two machines that produce the chips. 7
Machine I produces 65% of the chips, but 5% of its chips are defective. Machine II
produces 35% of the chips and 15% of its chips are defective. A chip is selected at
random and found to be defective. What is the probability that it came from Machine I?
13 An urn contains 10 white and 3 black balls, while another urn contains 3 white and 5 black 4
balls. Two balls are drawn from the first urn and put into the second urn and then a ball is
drawn from the latter. What is the probability that it is a white ball?
14 Two students x and y work independently on a problem. The probability that x will solve it 3
is 3/4 and the probability that y will solve it is 2/3. What is the probability that problem will
be solved?
15 State Bayes’s theorem. In a bolt factory, three machines A, B and C manufacture 25%, 35% 7
and 40% of the total product respectively. Of these outputs 5%, 4% and 2% respectively,
are defective bolts. A bolt is picked up at random and found to be defective. What are the
probabilities that it was manufactured by machines A, B and C?
16 A person is known to hit the target in 3 out of 4 shots, whereas another person is known to 3
hit the target in 2 out of 3 shots. Find the probability of the target being hit at all when they
both try.
17 A multiple choice test consist of 8 questions with 3 answer to each question(of which only 7
one is correct). A student answers each question by rolling a balanced dice and checking
the first answer if he gets 1 or 2, the second answer if he gets 3 or 4 and the third answer if
he gets 5 or 6. To get a distinction, the student must secure at least 75% correct answers. If
there is no negative marking, what is the probability that the student secures a distinction?
18 Define Mutually exclusive event and Exhaustive event with suitable example 3
19 A company has two plants to manufacture hydraulic machine. Plat I manufactures 70% of 3
the hydraulic machines and plant II manufactures 30%. At plant I, 80% of hydraulic
machines are rated standard quality and at plant II, 90% of hydraulic machines are rated
standard quality. A machine is picked up at random and is found to be of standard quality.
What is the chance that it has come from plant I?
20 In how many different ways can 4 of 15 laboratory assistants be chosen to assist with an 3
experiment? WINTER 2019

21 If 5 of 20 tires in storage are defective and 5 of them are randomly chosen for inspection (that is, 4
each tire has the same chance of being selected), what is the probability that the two of the
defective tires will be included? WINTER 2019
22 If 3 balls are “randomly drawn” from a bowl containing 6 white and 5 black balls. What is the 3
probability that one of the balls is white and the other two black? WINTER 2019
2 From the following data calculate moments about (i) Assumed mean 25 ( ii) Actual mean 7
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x 0 1 2 3 4

Y 1 1.8 1.3 2.5 6.3

y 12 15 21 25

x 50 70 100 12
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Y 15 1 1 3 19
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y 5.012 10 31.62
Hight(x) 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
Distance(y) 10.63 13.03 15.04 16.81 18.42 19.90 21.47
Variable 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40
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26 The article “A Thin-Film Oxygen Uptake Test for the Evaluation of Automotive Crankcase 4
Lubricants” reported the following data on oxidation-induction time (min) for various commercial
oils: 87, 103, 130, 160, 180, 195, 132, 145, 211, 105, 145, 153, 152, 138, 87, 99, 93, 119, 129 (i)
Calculate the sample variance and standard deviation. (ii) If the observations were re-expressed in
hours, what would be the resulting values of the sample variance and sample standard deviation?
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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION
1 A car hire firm has two cars, which it hires out day by day. The number of demands for a car on 4
each day is distributed on a Poisson distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the proportion of days on
which neither car is used and proportion of days on which some demand is refused. WINTER 2016

2 Obtain the binomial distribution for which mean is 10 and variance is 5. WINTER 2015 2
3 A book contains 100 misprints distributed randomly throughout its 100 pages. What is the 7
probability that a page observed at random contains at least two misprints. Assume Poisson
Distribution. WINTER 2015
4 What are the properties of Binomial Distribution? The average percentage of failure in a certain 7
examination is 40. What is the probability that out of a group of 6 candidates, at least 4 passed in
examination?
5 Each sample of water has a 10% chance of containing a particular organic pollutant. Assume that 3
the samples are independent with regard to the presence of the pollutant. Find the probability
that in the next 18 samples, at least 4 samples contain the pollutant.
6 In an examination, minimum 40 marks for passing and 75 marks for distinction are required. In this 7
examination 45% students passed and 9% obtained distinction. Find average marks and standard
deviation of this distribution of marks. [P(z=0.125)=0.05 and P(z=1.34)=0.41] WINTER 2019
7 Distribution of height of 1000 students is normal with mean 165 cms and standard deviation 15 7
cms. How many soldiers are of height (i) less than 138 cms (ii) more than 198 cms (iii) between 138
and 198 cms. [P(z=1.8)=0.4641, P(z=2.2)=0.4861] WINTER 2019
8 Assume that the probability that a wafer contains a large particle of contamination is 0.01 and that 3
the wafers are independent; that is, the probability that a wafer contains a large particle is not
dependent on the characteristics of any of the other wafers. If 15 wafers are analyzed, what is the
probability that no large particles are found? WINTER 2019
9 A microchip company has two machines that produce the chips. Machine I produces 65% of the 4
chips, but 5% of its chips are defective. Machine II produces 35% of the chips and 15% of its chips
are defective. A chip is selected at random and found to be defective. What is the probability that
it came from Machine I? WINTER 2019
10 If a publisher of nontechnical books takes great pains to ensure that its books are free of 7
typographical errors, so that the probability of any given page containing at least one such error is
.005 and errors are independent from page to page, what is the probability that one of its
400-page novels will contain (i) exactly one page with errors? (ii)At most three pages with errors?
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11 Two samples of size 9 and 8 give the sum of squares of deviations from their respective means
equal 160 inches and 91 inches square respectively. Can they be regarded as drawn from two
normal populations with the same variance? (F for 8 and 7 d.f. = 3.73). WINTER 2019
PROBABILITY TESTS
1 A sample of 20 items has mean 42 units and standard deviation 5 units. Test the hypothesis that it 3
is a random sample from a normal population with mean 45 units.[t at 5% level for 19 d.f. is 2.09.]
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2 Samples of sizes 10 and 14 were taken from two normal populations with standard deviation 3.5 3
and 5.2. The sample means were found to be 20.3 and 18.6. Test whether the means of the two
populations are the same at 5% level. [ 0.05 t =2.0739]. WINTER 2019
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