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Two cards are drawn from a pack. Find the probability that number of aces are drawn. (Write probability distribution table)

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Find the probability distribution of the sum of the numbers obtained when two dice are thrown once.

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A man takes a step forward with probability 0.4 and backwards with a probability 0.6. Find the probability that after 11 steps he is just one step away from the starting point.

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Two cards are drawn without replacement from a pack. Find the probability distribution of number of face cards.

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A tells lie is 30% cases, and B in 35% cases find the probability that both state same fact.

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Find the probability that sum of nos. appearing and showing on two dice is 8, given that atleast one of the dice doesn't show 5.

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Suppose that a fair dice are tossed and let X represents "The sum of points". FInd the mean/ variance of X.

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A man is known to speak truth 3 times out of 4. He throws a dice and reports that it is a six. Find the probability that it is actually a six.

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A,B,C tosses a coin in turns. The first one to throw a 'head' wins game. What are their respective chances of winning.

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Obtain the probability distribution of number of sixes in two tosses of a dice. Also find mean/ variance.

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A company produces 10% defective items. Find the probability of getting 2 defective items in a sample of 8 items is

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A coin is tossed 7 times. FInd the probability distribution of getting r heads.

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If three distinct numbers are chosen at randomly from first 100 natural nos. then the probability that all of them are divisible by 2 or 3 is

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A fair die is rolled. The probability that the first 1 occurs at even number of trails is?

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A letter is chosen at random from the word ASSASSINATION. Find the probability that the letter is a vowel.

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If a 4 digit number > 5000 are randomly formed from digits 0,1,3,5,7. Find probability of forming a number divisible by 5 when (1) digits are repeated 2) digits are not repeated.

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A fair die is rolled. The probability that the first 1 occurs at the even number of trails is ?

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A pack of 52 cards were distributed equally among 4 players. Find the chance that 4 kings are held by particular player.

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What are the odds in favour of getting a 3 in a throw of die? What are the odds against getting 3?

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Shreya visits the cities A, B, C and D at random. What is the probability that he visits 1) A before B 2) A just before B.

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If A, B, C are events associated with random expt. Prove that \[ PtP(A\cup B\cup C)=P(A)+P(B)+P(C)-P(A\cap B)-P(A\cap C)-P(B\cap C)+P(A\cap B\cap C)\]

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6 boys and 6 girls sit in a row at random. Find the probability that 1) The six girls sit together 2) The boys and girls sit alternatively.

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The mean and variance of a binomial distribution are $ 4 \;and\;\frac{4}{3}.\;Find\;P(X\geq1).$

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Find the probability that sum of the numbers showing on the two dice is 8, given that atleast one dice doesnt show five.

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Find the probability of throwing almost 2 sixes in 6 throws of a single dice.

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Three cards are drawn with replacement from a well shuffled pack of cards. Find the probability that cards are a king, queen and a jack

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$P(A)=\frac{1}{2},P(B)=\frac{7}{12}P(not A \;or\; nor B)=\frac{1}{4}$ state whether A and B are independent.

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Given that the two numbers appearing on two dice are different. Find the probability of the event 'the sum of numbers on the dice is 4'.

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In a binomial distribution, the sum of mean and variance is 42. Product is 360. FInd the distribution.

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Suppose X has a binomial distribution B(6,1/2) show that X = 3 is the most likely outcome.

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4 persons are chosen at random from a group of 3 men, 2 women, 3 children. Find the probability that out of 4 choice, exactly 2 are children.

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If on an average 1 ship in every 10 sinks, find the chance that out of 5 ships atleast 4 will arrive safely.

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In a hurdle race a player has to cross 10 hurdles. The probability that will clear each hurdle is 5/6, what is the probability that he will knock down fewer than 2 hurdles.

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A man fires 4 bullets on a thief. The probability that the thief will be killed by one bullet is 0.6. Find the probability that the thief is still alive.

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The parameters n and p are 12 and 1/3 for a binomial distribution. Find standard deviation.

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Given P(A) = 0.3, P(B) = 0.2, Find P(B/A) if A and B are mutually exclusive events.

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A die is thrown 120 times and getting 1 or 5 is considered success. Find the mean, variance of number of successes.

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