OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

Section (C) : Conditional probability, dependent and independent events

C-1. In throwing a pair of dice, the events ‘coming up of 6 on Ist die’ and ‘a total of 7 on both the dies’ are
(1) mutually exclusive (2) forming an exhaustive system
(3) independent (4) dependent

C-2. A fair die is tossed. If the number is odd, find the probability that it is prime is
2 1 1
(1) (2) (3) 1 (4)
3 2 3

C-3. A card is drawn from a well shuffled ordinary deck of 52-playing cards. The card drawn is found to be a
spade. Then the probability that the card is an ace, is
1 1 1 1
(1) (2) (3) (4)
13 52 4 8

C-4. A pair of dice is thrown. If total of numbers turned up on both the dies is 8, then the probability that the
number turned up on the second die is 5’ is
5 1 1 2
(1) (2) (3) (4)
36 6 5 5

C-5. A bag contains 2 white & 4 black balls. A ball is drawn 5 times, each being replaced before another is
drawn. The probability that atleast 4 of the balls drawn are white is:
(1) 4/81 (2) 10/243 (3) 11/243 (4) 8/243

C-6. A & B having equal skill, are playing a game of best of 5 points. After A has won two points & B has
won one point, the probability that A will win the game is:
(1) 1/2 (2) 2/3 (3) 3/4 (4) 1/4

C-7. If odds against solving a question independently by three students are 2 : 1 , 5 : 2 and 5 : 3
respectively, then probability that the question is solved only by one student is
31 24 25 29
(1) (2) (3) (4)
56 56 56 56
C-8. A die is weighted so that the probability of different faces to turn up is as given

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
Probability 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.2

If P(A/B) = p1 and P(B/C) = p2 and P(C/A) = p3 then the values of p1, p2, p3 respectively are -
Take the events A, B & C as A = {1, 2, 3}, B = {2, 3, 5} and C = {2, 4, 6}
2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1
(1) , , (2) , , (3) , , (4) , ,
3 3 4 3 3 6 4 3 6 3 6 4

1 2
C-9. If A and B are independent events and P(A  B) = , P( A ) = , then 6P(B/A) =
6 3
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4
C-10.^ If P(A) = 0.3, P(A  B) = 0.6 and P(A / B) = 0.25 , P(A – B) =
(1) 0.1 (2) 0.2 (3) 0.3 (4) 0.4
C-11._ Let A, B , C be three events such that :
P(A) = 0.3, P(B) = 0.4, P(C) = 0.5, P(A B') = 0.2, P(B C)=0.3, P(A' B'C') = 0.3 and
P (A B|C') = 0.1. Find the value of P(B'|C')
1 2 3 4
(1) (2) (3) (4)
5 5 5 5
C-12. If P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.48 and P(A  B) = 0.16, then the value of P(A / B) is
(1) 1/3 (2) 2/3 (3) 1/4 (4) 1/6

C-13. Let 0 < P(A) < 1, 0 < P(B) < 1 & P(A  B) = P(A) + P(B)  P(A). P(B), then:
(1) P(B/A) = P(B)  P(A) (2) P(AC  BC) = P(AC) + P(BC)
(3) P((A  B)C) = P(AC). P(BC) (4) P(A/B) = P(A)– P(B)

C-14. If M & N are independent events such that 0 < P(M) < 1 & 0 < P(N) < 1, then choose the incorrect
option
(1) M & N are mutually exclusive (2) M & N are independent
(3) M & N are independent 
(4) P M N + P M N = 1
ANS .

Section (C) :
C-1. (3) C-2. (1) C-3. (1) C-4. (3) C-5. (3) C-6. (3) C-7. (3)
C-8. (4) C-9. (4) C-10. (2) C-11. (4) C-12. (1) C-13. (3) C-14. (1)