Four persons are chosen at random from a group of 3 men, 2 women

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181.

A bag contains 5 white and 3 black balls and 4 balls are successively drawn out and not replaced. The probability that they are alternately of different colours, is :

  • 1/196

  • 2/7

  • 1/7

  • 13/56


182.

A class has 175 students. The following data shows the number of students opting one or more subjects. Mathematics 100; Physics 70; Chemistry 40; Mathematics and Physics 30; Mathematics and Chemistry 28; Physics and Chemistry 23; Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 18. How many students have offered Mathematics alone ?

  • 35

  • 48

  • 60

  • 22


183.

If birth to a male child and birth to a female child are equal-probable, then what is the probability that at least one of the three children born to a couple is male ?

  • 45

  • 78

  • 87

  • 12


184.

Two persons A and B throw a die alternately till one of them gets a 3 and wins the game, the respective probabilities of winning, if A begins, are :

  • 711, 411

  • 611, 511

  • 56, 16

  • 47, 37


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185.

If three natural numbers from 1 to 100 are selected randomly, then probability that all are divisible by both 2 and 3, is :

  • 4105

  • 433

  • 435

  • 41155


186.

A bag contains 3 black, 3 white and 2 red balls. One by one, three balls are drawn without replacement. The probabilitythat the third ball is red is equal to :

  • 256

  • 356

  • 156

  • 1456


187.

Assume that each born child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. If two families have two children each, then the conditional probability that all children are girls given that at least two are girls is :

  • 117

  • 110

  • 111

  • 112


188.

Unbiased die is thrown, probability that outcome is greater than 4, is

  • 3/4

  • 4/5

  • 1/3

  • 5/6


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189.

Probability P(A) = 0. 7, P(B) = 0.4, P(A  B) = 0.3, then P(A  B') is equal to

  • 0.1

  • 0.3

  • 0.2

  • 0.4


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190.

Four persons are chosen at random from a group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children. The chance that exactly 2 of them are children, is 

  • 1021

  • 1113

  • 1325

  • 2132


A.

1021

Let S = Number of ways of choosing 4 persons out of 9

= C49 = 9 × 8 × 7 × 64 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 126

and E = Number of ways of choosing 2 children out of 4 and 2 persons out of (3 + 2) persons

= C24 × C25 = 4 × 32 × 1 × 5 × 42 × 1 = 60 Require probability = 60126 = 1021


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