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PROBABILITY
DPP - 5
1. Two dice are thrown. What is the probability that the 3
(c) (d) None of these
sum of the numbers appearing on the two dice is 11, if 5
5 appears on the first  A
7. If the events A and B are mutually exclusive, then P  
(a)
1
(b)
1 B
36 6
(a) 0 (b) 1
5
(c) (d) None of these P ( A  B) P ( A  B)
6 (c) (d)
P ( A) P (B)
1 1 1
2. If P ( A)  , P (B)  and P ( A  B)  , then 8. If A and B are two events such that A  B, then
2 3 4
B B
P   P  
 A  A

(a) 1 (b) 0 (a) 0 (b) 1

1 1 (c) 1/2 (d) 1/3
(c) (d)
2 3  A
9. If A and B are two independent events, then P  
3. If A and B are two events such that P ( A)  0 and B

A (a) 0 (b) 1

P (B)  1, then P   
B (c) P (A) (d) P (B)
 

A 10. A pair has two children. If one of them is boy, then the
 A
(a) 1  P   (b) 1  P  
 probability that other is also a boy, is
B B
1 1
1  P ( A  B) P (A) (a) (b)
(c) (d) 2 4
P (B ) P (B )
1
(c) (d) None of these
4. In a single throw of two dice what is the probability of 3
obtaining a number greater than 7, if 4 appears on the 11. If A and B are two independent events such that
first dice 1 1
P ( A)  , P(B)  , then
1 1 2 5
(a) (b)
3 2
 A 1  A  5
(a) P   (b) P  
(c)
1
(d) None of these B 2  AB 6
12
 AB 
1 (c) P  0 (d) All of the above
5. If A and B are two events such that P ( A)  ,  A  B 
3
B  A 1
P (B) 
1 1
and P ( A  B)  , then P    12. For two events A and B, if P( A)  P   and
4 5 B 4
A
B 1
37 37 P    , then
(a) (b)  A 2
40 45
 A  3
(c)
23
(d) None of these (a) A and B are independent (b) P  
40  B 4

3  B  1
6. If A and B are two events such that P ( A)  , (c) P   (d) All of the above
8  A  2
5 3  A 13. If two events A and B are such that
P (B)  and P ( A  B)  , then P   
8 4 B P( A c )  0.3, P(B)  0.4 and P( AB c )  0.5, then
2 2 P[B /(A  B c )] is equal to
(a) (b)
5 3

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 1 1 18. A and B are two events such that P (A)= 0.8, P(B)=0.6
(a) (b)
2 3 and P( A  B)  0.5, then the value of P ( A / B) is
1 5 5
(c) (d) None of these (a) (b)
4 6 8
14. A letter is known to have come either from LONDON or 9
CLIFTON; on the postmark only the two consecutive (c) (d) None of these
10
letters ON are legible. The probability that it came from
19. A man is known to speak the truth 3 out of 4 times. He
LONDON is
throws a die and reports that it is a six. The probability
5 12 that it is actually a six, is
(a) (b)
17 17
3 1
(a) (b)
17 3 8 5
(c) (d)
30 5
3
15. In a certain town, 40% of the people have brown hair, (c) (d) None of these
4
25% have brown eyes and 15% have both brown hair
20. A bag ‘A’ contains 2 white and 3 red balls and bag ‘B’
and brown eyes. If a person selected at random from the
contains 4 white and 5 red balls. One ball is drawn at
town, has brown hair, the probability that he also has
random from a randomly chosen bag and is found to be
brown eyes, is
red. The probability that it was drawn from bag ‘B’ was
1 3
(a) (b) 5 5
5 8 (a) (b)
14 16
1 2
(c) (d) 5 25
3 3 (c) (d)
18 52
16. There are 3 bags which are known to contain 2 white
21. A bag X contains 2 white and 3 black balls and another
and 3 black balls; 4 white and 1 black balls and 3 white
bag Y contains 4 white and 2 black balls. One bag is
and 7 black balls respectively. A ball is drawn at
selected at random and a ball is drawn from it. Then the
random from one of the bags and found to be a black
probability for the ball chosen be white is
ball. Then the probability that it was drawn from the bag
containing the most black balls is 2 7
(a) (b)
15 15
7 5
(a) (b) 8 14
15 19 (c) (d)
15 15
3
(c) (d) None of these 22. Bag A contains 4 green and 3 red balls and bag B
4
contains 4 red and 3 green balls. One bag is taken at
17. In an entrance test there are multiple choice questions.
random and a ball is drawn and noted it is green. The
There are four possible answers to each question of
probability that it comes bag B
which one is correct. The probability that a student
knows the answer to a question is 90%. If he gets the 2 2
(a) (b)
7 3
correct answer to a question, then the probability that he
was guessing, is 3 1
(c) (d)
37 1 7 3
(a) (b)
40 37
36 1
(c) (d)
37 9

Answer Key
1 b 2 c 3 c 4 b 5 a
6 a 7 a 8 b 9 c 10 c
11 d 12 d 13 c 14 b 15 b
16 a 17 b 18 a 19 a 20 d
21 c 22 c

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