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A sign reads "ARKANSAS". Three letters are removed and put back into the three empty space at
random. What is the Probability the sign still reads "ARKANSAS"?
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Three Machines M1, M2 and M3 produce identical items. Of their respective output 3%, 2% and 2%
of items are defective. On a certain day M1 has produced 20% while M2 and M3 produced 40% each
of total output respectively. An item selected at random is found defective. What is the probability
that the item is from M1 or M3?
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What is the probability that a leap year selected at random will have 53 Sundays.
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A salesman has scheduled two appointments to sell encyclopaedias. His first appointment will lead to a sale
with probability 0:3 and his second will lead independently to a sale with probability 0:6. Any sale made is
equally likely to be either for the deluxe model, which costs Rs. 1000, or the standard model, which costs Rs.
500. Determine the probability mass function of X, the total Rs. value of all the sales.
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It is known that screws produced by a certain company will be defective with probability 0.01
independently of each other. The company sells the screws in packages of 10 and offers a money back
guarantee that at most 1 of the 10 screws is defective. What proportion of packages sold must the
company replace ?
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The University of America runs two bus lines on campus: red and green. The red line serves north
campus and the green line serves south campus with a transfer station linking the two lines. Green
buses arrive randomly (according to a Poisson distribution) at the transfer station every 10 minutes.
Red buses also arrive randomly every 7 minutes.
(a) What is the probability that 2 buses will stop at the station during a 5 minute interval?
(b) A student whose dormitory is located next to the station has a class in 10 minutes. Either bus will
take the student to the classroom building. The ride takes 5 minutes, after which the student will walk
for around 3 minutes to reach the class room. What is the probability that the student will make it to
class on time?
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The life length X of an electrical component follows and exponential distribution. There are 2
processes by which component may be manufactured. The expected life length of the
component is 100 hrs. if process I is used to manufacture, while 150 hrs. if process II is used.
The cost of manufacturing a single component by process I is Rs. 10 /- while it is Rs. 20 /- for
process II. Moreover, if the components last less than the guaranteed life of 200 hrs., a loss
of Rs. 50/- is to borne by the manufacturer. Which process is advantageous to manufacturer?
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In a normal distribution, 7% of the items are under 35 and 89% are under 63. Calculate the
mean and standard deviation of distribution.
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Suppose that diameter of the disc is normally distributed with mean 39.8 and SD 2.05 inches
respectively. What is the probability that of 20 randomly selected discs exactly 5 have
diameter of at least 40 inches ?
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A company ‘A’ plans to supply raw material to company ‘B’ on a daily basis according to a
Poisson process at the rate of 1 unit/day. Each day company ‘B’ is supposed to run a quality
testing process before accepting the supplied raw material from ‘A’. If the acceptance of
each unit of supplied material is independent with probability 0.8, using random numbers
0.20,0.75 and 0.66 exactly once in the given order, simulate the number of units accepted in
the first and the second day.
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What is the probability that at least 2 out of n people have the same birthday ? Assume that 365 days
in a year and that all days are equally likely.
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A die is loaded in such a manner that for n = 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 the probability of the face marked n, landing
on top when the die is rolled is proportional to n. Find the probability that an odd number will appear
on tossing the die.
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A random box contains tags marked 1; 2; …; n. Two tags are chosen at random with replacement. Find
the probability that the numbers on the tags will be consecutive integers.
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A car is parked among N cars in a row, not at either end. On this return the owner finds that exactly r
of the N places are still occupied. What is the probability that both neighbouring places are empty.

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