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Probability

Short Answer Type

931. A man is known to speak the truth 5 out of 6 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a six. Find the probability that it is actually a six.

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Long Answer Type

932. Let there be three urns containing 1 white, 2 black, 3 red balls ; 2 white, 1 black, 1 red ball ; 4 white, 5 black, 3 red balls. One urn is chosen at random and two balls are drawn. These happen to be white and a red. What is the probability that they come from urn number 3.

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933. A pack of playing cards was found to contain only 51 cards. If the first 13 cards which are examined are all red, what is the probability that the missing card is black.

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934.
Coloured balls are distributed in four boxes as shown in the following table:

Box

Colour

Black

White

Red

Blue

I

3

4

5

6

II

2

2

2

2

III

1

2

3

1

IV

4

3

1

5

A box is selected at random and then a ball is randomly drawn from the selected box. The colour of the ball is black, what is the probability that ball drawn is from the box III?

Let A, E₁, E₂, E₃ and E₄ be the events as defined below:
A : a black ball is selected    E₁ : box I is selected
E₂: box II is selected    E₃: box II is selected
E₄ : box IV is selected
Since the boxes are chosen at random.
$therefore space space space space straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 1 right parenthesis space equals space straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 2 right parenthesis space equals straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 3 right parenthesis space equals space straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 4 right parenthesis space equals space 1 fourth$
Also, $straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 1 right parenthesis space equals space 3 over 18 comma space space straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 2 right parenthesis space equals space 2 over 8 comma space space straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 3 right parenthesis space equals space 1 over 7 comma space space straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 4 right parenthesis space equals space 4 over 13$
P(box III is selected, given that the drawn ball is black) = P(E₃ | A).
   $equals space fraction numerator straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 3 right parenthesis. space straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 3 right parenthesis over denominator straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 1 right parenthesis thin space straight P left parenthesis straight A thin space vertical line straight E subscript 1 right parenthesis space plus space straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 2 right parenthesis thin space straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 2 right parenthesis space plus space straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 3 right parenthesis thin space straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 3 right parenthesis space plus space straight P left parenthesis straight E subscript 4 right parenthesis thin space straight P left parenthesis straight A vertical line straight E subscript 4 right parenthesis end fraction$

$open square brackets because space of space Baye apostrophe straight s space Theorem right square bracket close square brackets$
$equals space fraction numerator begin display style 1 fourth end style cross times begin display style 1 over 7 end style over denominator begin display style 1 fourth end style cross times begin display style 3 over 18 end style plus begin display style 1 fourth end style cross times begin display style 1 fourth end style cross times begin display style 1 over 7 end style plus begin display style 1 fourth end style cross times begin display style 4 over 13 end style end fraction space equals fraction numerator begin display style 1 over 7 end style over denominator begin display style 1 over 6 end style plus begin display style 1 fourth end style plus begin display style 1 over 7 end style plus begin display style 4 over 13 end style end fraction$

$equals space fraction numerator 0.14 over denominator 0.17 plus 0.25 plus 0.14 plus 0.30 end fraction equals space fraction numerator 0.14 over denominator 0.86 end fraction space equals 0.16$

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935.

Suppose we have four boxes A, B, C and D containing coloured marbles as given below:

Box	Marble Colour
	Red	White	Black
A	1	6	3
B	6	2	2
C	8	1	1
D	0	6	4

One of the boxes has been selected at random and a single marble is drawn from it. If the marble is red. what is the probability that it was drawn from box A? box B? box C?

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Multiple Choice Questions

936. Probability that A speaks truth is

4 over 5.

A coin is tossed. A reports that a head appears. The probability that actually there was head is

$4 over 5$
$1 half$
$1 fifth$
$1 fifth$

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Short Answer Type

937. A person plays a game of tossing a coin thrice. For each head, he is given Rs. 2 by the organiser of the game and for each tail, he has to give Rs. 1.50 to the organiser. Let X denote the amount gained or lost by the person. Show that X is a random variable and exhibit it as a function on the sample space of the experiment.

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938. An urn contains 5 red and 2 black balls. Two balls are randomly drawn. Let X represent the number of black balls. What are the possible values of X ? Is X a random variable?

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939. Let X represent the difference between the number of heads and the number of tails obtained when a coin is tossed 6 times. What are possible values of X?

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940. A bag contains 2 white and 1 red balls. One ball is drawn at random and then put back in the box after noting its colour. The process is repeated again. If X denotes the number of red balls recorded in the two draws, describe X.

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