Chapter 13
A and B are two events such that P (A) ≠ 0. Find P(B|A), if
(i) A is a subset of B (ii) A ∩ B = φ
The mean and variance of eight observations are 9 and 9.25, respectively. If six of the observations are 6, 7, 10, 12, 12 and 13, find the remaining two observations.
Bag I contains 3 red and 4 black balls and Bag II contains 4 red and 5 black balls. One ball is transferred from Bag I to Bag II and then a ball is drawn from Bag II. The ball so drawn is found to be red in colour . Find the probability that the transferred ball is black. Choose the correct answer in each of the following:
If A and B are two events such that P(A) ≠ 0 and P(B | A) = 1, then
(A) A ⊂ B (B) B ⊂ A (C) B = φ (D) A = φ
If P(A|B) > P(A), then which of the following is correct : (A) P(B|A) < P(B) (B) P(A ∩ B) < P(A) . P(B) (C) P(B|A) > P(B) (D) P(B|A) = P(B)
If A and B are any two events such that P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B) = P(A), then (A) P(B|A) = 1 (B) P(A|B) = 1 (C) P(B|A) = 0 (D) P(A|B) = 0
The mean and variance of 7 observations are 8 and 16, respectively. If five of the observations are 2, 4, 10, 12, 14. Find the remaining two observations.
A couple has two children, (i) Find the probability that both children are males, if it is known that at least one of the children is male. (ii) Find the probability that both children are females, if it is known that the elder child is a female.
Suppose that 5% of men and 0.25% of women have grey hair . A grey haired person is selected at random. What is the probability of this person being male? Assume that there are equal number of males and females.
The mean and standard deviation of six observations are 8 and 4, respectively. If each observation is multiplied by 3, find the new mean and new standard deviation of the resulting observations.
Given that x is the mean and σ2 is the variance of n observations x1, x2, ...,xn. Prove that the mean and variance of the observations ax1, ax2, ax3, ...., axn are a x and a2 σ2, respectively, (a ≠ 0).
Suppose that 90% of people are right-handed. What is the probability that at most 6 of a random sample of 10 people are right-handed?
| If a leap year is selected at random, what is the chance that it will contain | 53 |
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tuesdays?
The mean and standard deviation of 20 observations are found to be 10 and 2, respectively. On rechecking, it was found that an observation 8 was incorrect. Calculate the correct mean and standard deviation in each of the following cases: (i) If wrong item is omitted. (ii) If it is replaced by 12.
The mean and standard deviation of a group of 100 observations were found to be 20 and 3, respectively . Later on it was found that three observations were incorrect, which were recorded as 21, 21 and 18. Find the mean and standard deviation if the incorrect observations are omitted.
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?
Assume that the chances of a patient having a heart attack is 40%. It is also assumed that a meditation and yoga course reduce the risk of heart attack by 30% and prescription of certain drug reduces its chances by 25%. At a time a patient can choose any one of the two options with equal probabilities. It is given that after going through one of the two options the patient selected at random suffers a heart attack. Find the probability that the patient followed a course of meditation and yoga?
If each element of a second order determinant is either zero or one, what is the probability that the value of the determinant is positive? (Assume that the indi- vidual entries of the determinant are c hosen independently, each value being assumed with probability 2 ).
An electronic assembly consists of two subsystems, say, A and B. From previ- ous testing procedures, the following probabilities are assumed to be known: P(A fails) = 0.2 P(B fails alone) = 0.15 P(A and B fail) = 0.15 Evaluate the following probabilities (i) P(A fails|B has failed) (ii) P(A fails alone)