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1011. Five cards are drawn successively with replacement from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that
(i)  all the five cards are spades?
(ii) only 3 cards are spades?
(iii) none is a spade?

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1012. Find the probability of throwing at most 2 sixes in 6 throws of a single die.


Here n = 6
  p = P(6) = 1 over 6 comma      straight q space equals space 1 minus straight p space equals space 1 space minus space 1 over 6 space equals 5 over 6
P(at most 2  sixes) = P(0) + P(1) + P(2)

                               equals space straight C presuperscript 6 subscript 0 open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 6 space plus space straight C presuperscript 6 subscript 1 open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 5 space open parentheses 1 over 6 close parentheses plus straight C presuperscript 6 subscript 2 space open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 4 space open parentheses 1 over 6 close parentheses squared
equals space 1 space cross times space open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 6 space plus space 6 over 1 cross times open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 5 space cross times space 1 over 6 plus fraction numerator 6 cross times 5 over denominator 1 cross times 2 end fraction cross times open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 4 cross times 1 over 6 squared
equals space open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 4 space open square brackets open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses squared plus 6 space cross times 5 over 6 plus 1 over 6 plus 15 cross times 1 over 36 close square brackets space space equals open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 4 space open square brackets 25 over 36 plus 5 over 6 plus 15 over 36 close square brackets
equals space open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 4 space open square brackets fraction numerator 25 plus 30 plus 15 over denominator 36 end fraction close square brackets space equals space open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 4 space cross times space 70 over 36 space equals space 35 over 18 open parentheses 5 over 6 close parentheses to the power of 4

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1013. The probability of a man hitting a target is 1 fourth. He fires 7 times. What is the probability of his hitting at least twice the target?
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1014. The probability that a man hits a target when he fires is 1 fifth. If he fires 10 rounds, what is the probability of his hitting the target at least twice?
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1015. In a hurdle race, a player has to cross 10 hurdles. The probability that he will clear each hurdle is 5 over 6. What is the probability that the will knock down fewer than 2 hurdles?
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1016. A policeman fires 6 bullets on a dacoit. The probability that the dacoit will be killed by a bullet is 0·6. What is the probability that the dacoit is still alive?
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1017. A student is given a true-false examination with 8 questions. If he gets 6 or more correct answers, he passes the examination. Given that the guesses at the answer to each question, compute the probability that he passes the examination.
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1018. An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. Find the probability that in the next six trials, there will be at least 4 successes.
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1019. Ten eggs are drawn successively with replacement from a lot containing 10% defective eggs. Find the probability that there is at least one defective egg.
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1020. A die is thrown 6 times. If ‘getting an odd number” is a success, what is the probability of
(i) 5 successes?    (ii) at least 5 successes?           (iii) at most 5 successes?
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