PROBABILITY AND STSTISTICS

Unit – II

One mark Questions

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?

1
A.
2

2
B.
5

8
C.
15

9
D.
20
2. 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?
1
A.
3

3
B.
4

7
C.
19

8
D.
21

9
E.
21
3. What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?
1
A.
6

1
B.
8

1
C.
9

1
D.
12
4. 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:
 21
A.
46

25
B.
117

1
C.
50

3
D.
25
5. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the
probability of getting a prize?
1
A.
10

2
B.
5

2
C.
7

5
D.
7
6.From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of both
the cards being kings?
1
A.
15

25
B.
57

35
C.
256

1
D.
221
7.Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:
1
A.
6

5
B.
12

1
C.
2

7
D.
9
8. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of club or a king of
 heart is:
1
A.
13

2
B.
13

1
C.
26

1
D.
52
9.A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag.
The probability that all of them are red, is:
1
A.
22

3
B.
22

2
C.
91

2
D.
77
10.Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and
one is a heart, is:
3
A.
20

29
B.
34

47
C.
100

13
D.
102

11. One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card
drawn is a face card (Jack, Queen and King only)?
1
A.
13

3
B.
13

1
C.
4
 9
D.
52

12. A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability
that the ball drawn is white?
3
A.
4

4
B.
7

1
C.
8

3
D. 7

13. Which of the two events are mutually exclusive?

A. Drawing a card from a deck and getting a king or a club
B. Rolling a die and getting an even number or a 6
C. Tossing two coins and getting two heads or two tails
D. Rolling two dice and getting doubles or getting a sum of 8
14. A card is selected from a deck of 52 cards. Find the probability that it is a red king or a black
queen
A. 2/13
B. 1/13
C. 5/13
D. 8/13
15. A card is selected from a deck. Find the probability that it is a 3 or a heart
A. 17/52
B. 4/13
C. 11/26
D. 13/52
16. If you flipped 2 coins, what is the probability that both will land on tails?
A. 2/4
B. ¾
C. ¼
D. 0/4
17. A card is selected from a deck of playing cards. What is the probability of selecting a red card?
A. 1/4
B. 3/4
C. 0/2
D. 1/2
18.What is the probability of selecting the diamond suit from a deck of playing cards?
A. 1/4
B. 2/4
C. 3/4
D. 0/4
19. Probability value lies between ________ and _____
a. -1 , 1 b. 0, 1 c. -1, 0 d. 0, 1.1
20. The probability of an impossible event is __0_____
21. The probability of certain event is ______1___
Two mark Questions (Probability)
1. Define Sample space
2. State the axioms of probability
3. State addition law of probability
4. State multiplication law of probability
5. If A and B are independent events with P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.5 find P(AB).
6. A car rental agency has 20 com[act cars and 10 intermediate size cars. If four of the cars are
randomly selected for a safety check, what is the probability of getting two of each kind?
7. From 21 tickets, marked with 20 to 40 numerals, one is drawn at random. Find the chance
that it is a multiple of 5.
8. Event A and B are such that P (AB) = 0.75 and P (A  B) = 0.25 and P ( A ) = 0.6 Find P(B)
and P(A|B).
9. Define Baye’s theorem.
10. Let P(AB) = 5/6, P(AB) =1/3 and P ( B ) = ½. Are the events A and B independent.
Joint probability distribution
1. From the following bivariate distribution of (x, y) find,
a)p(x≤1) b)P(Y≤3) c)P(X≤1,Y≤3) d)P(X≤1|Y≤3) e)P(Y≤3|X≤1) f) P(x+y≤4)
x\y 1 2 3 4 5 6
0 0 0 1/32 2/32 2/32 3/32
1 1/16 1/16 1/8 1/8 1/8 1/8
2 1/32 1/32 1/64 1/64 0 2/64

2. The joint probability mass function of (X, Y) is given by

P(x, y) = A (2x + 3y) ; x = 0, 1, 2, y = 1, 2, 3.
(i) Find the marginal distribution of X and Y (ii) P(X≤1, Y≤2) (iii) P(X≤1) (iv) P(Y≤2)
(v) P(X≤1| Y≤2) (vi) P(X+Y > 5) (vii) P(X + Y < 4)
 Baye’s Theorem
1. In a bolt factory machines A, B and C manufactures respectively 25%, 35% and 40% of total
output. Also out of these output of A, B, C 4%, 4% and 5% respectively are defective. A bolt
is drawn random from the total output and it is found to be defective, what is the
probability that it was manufactures by the machine A?
2. A box contains 4000 components of which 20% are defective. A second box contains 2000
components of which 10 % are defective. Third box contains 1000 components of which 5%
are defective. Fourth box contains 5000 components of which 25% are defective. A box is
chosen at random and an item selected was found to be defective. Find the probability that
this come from the Fourth box?
3. The content of three urns I, II, III are as follows
Balls Blue Black Red
Urns
I 4 3 5
II 3 5 7
III 5 2 4
An urn is selected at random and from it two balls are drawn at random. The two balls are
one Black and one Red. What is the probability that they come from urn I, II, III?
Correlation and Regression
1. Distinguish between correlation coefficient and regression coefficient.
2. Discuss the types of correlation
 The following marks have been obtained by a class of students in Statistics:
Compute the coefficient of correlation.
 Find also the equations of lines of regression.
 Calculate Paper II mark when Paper I mark is 50
Paper I 45 55 56 58 60 65 68 70 75 80 85
Paper II 56 50 48 60 62 64 65 70 74 82 90
3. Find correlation coefficient and line of regressions for the following data
X 10 12 18 8 13 20 22 15 5 17
Y 88 90 94 86 87 92 96 94 88 85