Algebra of Probability

IMPORTANT

Algebra of Probability: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Algebra of Probability, Complement Rule of Probability, Addition Theorem of Probability, Addition Theorem of Probability for Mutually Exclusive Events, Probability of Occurrence of Exactly One Event A or B, etc.

Important Questions on Algebra of Probability

EASY
IMPORTANT

Two students come late to the class and give reasons why they are late. The probability that the teacher believes the excuse of each student is 0.4. Let p be the probability that the teacher believes both the students and q be the probability that the teacher believes the second student but not the first. Then

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

Two players flip three fair coins each. The chance that they get the same number of heads is

HARD
IMPORTANT

Thousand tickets are sold in a lottery in which there is one top prize of Rs.500, four prizes of Rs.100 each and five prizes of Rs.10 each. A ticket costs Rs.1. The expected gain when you buy a ticket is

HARD
IMPORTANT

If PA=0.65, PB=0.80, then PAB lies in the interval

EASY
IMPORTANT

Events A, B, C are mutually exclusive events such that P(A)=3x+13, P(B)=1-x4 and P(C)=1-2x2. The set of possible values of x are in the interval

EASY
IMPORTANT

Let A, B, C be three events associated with sample space SA, B, C are pair wise independent and P(A)=P(B)=P(C)=P. If all of them cannot occur simultaneously then P(ABC)=

EASY
IMPORTANT

The probability of solving a problem in Mathematics by two students X and Y are 14 and 15, respectively. If both of them try to solve the problem independently, then the probability that the problem will be solved by exactly one of them is equal to

EASY
IMPORTANT

If P(A)=0.35, P(B)=0.2 and P(AB)=0.42, find the probability that neither A nor B occurs.

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

If P(E)=45, P(EF)=15 and P(DEF¯)=25, then the value of P(D¯EF¯) is

EASY
IMPORTANT

There are 8 laddus, 5 mangoes and 4 samoshas in a sweets box. If 1 Item is picked at random, What is the probability of having either a laddu or a mango ?

EASY
IMPORTANT

If X~B(n,p) and n=10,E(X)=5, then the value of p is

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

A speaks truth in 75% of the cases and B in 80%, cases. What is the probability that their statements about an incident do not match?

EASY
IMPORTANT

If P(A)=611, P(B)=511 and P(AB)=711, then value of PAB is 

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

If A, B and C are exhaustive events satisfying PABC¯=15PBC-PABC=115 and PAC=110 then PCAB¯ is equal to

HARD
IMPORTANT

A fair coin is tossed until one of the 2 sides occurs twice in a row. Probability that even number of tosses required is

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

Let P1, P2 and P3 are the probabilities of a student passing three independent exams A, B and C respectively. If P1, P2 and P3 are the roots of equation 20x3-27x2+14x-2=0, then the probability that the student passes in exactly one of A, B and C is

EASY
IMPORTANT

A die is thrown. Let A be the event that the number obtained is greater than 3 . Let B be the event that the number obtained is less than 5 .Then P(AB) is

EASY
IMPORTANT

Face is just like moon. This sentence has which figure of speech?

EASY
IMPORTANT

Let A and B are two events such that PAB¯=16PAB=14 and PA¯=14, where A¯ represents the complement of event A. Then, events A and B are

EASY
IMPORTANT

The probability that a problem is solved correctly by at least person, if four persons independently can solve the problem with probabilities 12341418, is