Addition theorems of probability - class-XI

addition theorems of probability

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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 $\displaystyle P(A \cup B)$ is

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{2}{5}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{3}{5}$
  3. 0
  4. 1
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Twenty bags or sugar, each marked 10 kg actually give the following data:

The weight of a bag (in kg) No. of bags
     $9.5-9.8$          1
     $9.8-9.9$          2
     $9.9-10.0$          5
     $10.0-10.1$         12

The lower limits of the classes are inclusive and the upper limits are exclusive.

What is the probability that the bag selected at random (without any reference) weighs 10 kg or more?

  1. $0.6$
  2. $0.8$
  3. $0.5$
  4. $0.3$
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In an experiment, there are exactly three elementary events. The probability of two of them are $\displaystyle\frac{2}{7}$ and $\displaystyle\frac{1}{7}$. What is the probability of third event?

  1. $\displaystyle\frac{4}{7}$
  2. $\displaystyle\frac{3}{7}$
  3. $\displaystyle\frac{2}{7}$
  4. $\displaystyle\frac{1}{7}$
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $n(A)=6,n(B)=8$ and $n(A\cup B)=12$, then $n(A\cap B)=$

  1. $6$
  2. $2$
  3. $8$
  4. $12$
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let A be a set of $4$ elements. From the set of all functions from A to A, the probability that it is an into function is?

  1. $\dfrac{3}{32}$
  2. $0$
  3. $\dfrac{29}{32}$
  4. $1$
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From a well shuffled standard pack of $52$ playing cards, one card is drawn. What is the probability that it is either a King of hearts or a Queen of diamonds.

  1. $\dfrac {1}{2}$
  2. $\dfrac {1}{4}$
  3. $\dfrac {1}{8}$
  4. $\dfrac {1}{26}$
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a coin is tossed twice, then the events 'occurrence of one head',  'occurrence of $2$ heads' and 'occurrence of no head' are -

  1. Independent
  2. Equally likely
  3. Not equally likely
  4. Both (A) and (B)
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

If events A and B are independent and P(A) $=$ 0.15, P(A $\cup $ B) $=$ 0.45, Then P(B) $=$ ..............

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{6}{13}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{6}{17}$
  3. $0.315$
  4. $0.352$
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A card is randomly drawn from a well shuffled pack of $52$ playing cards. The probability that it is a club or numbered $5$ is 

  1. Not $(0.4 + 0.3)$
  2. $=$ $0.4 + 0.3$
  3. $=$$ 0.4 - 0.3$
  4. None of these
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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 $(A\cup B)$ is

  1. $\cfrac{2}{5}$
  2. $\cfrac{3}{5}$
  3. $0$
  4. $1$
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Assume that the birth of a boy or girl to a couple to be equally likely,mutually exclusive exhaustive and independent of the other children in the family for a couple having $6$ children the probability that their 'three oldest are boy'is

  1. $\dfrac{{20}}{{64}}$
  2. $\dfrac{{1}}{{64}}$
  3. $\dfrac{2}{{64}}$
  4. $\dfrac{8}{{64}}$
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If  $A$ and $B$ are two independent events such that $P\left({A}^{\prime}\right)=0.7,  P\left({B}^{\prime}\right)=p$ and $P\left( A\cup B \right) =0.8,$ then the value of $p$ is 

  1. $1$
  2. $0.2$
  3. $0.7$
  4. $0.3$
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

One card is drawn from a pack of $52$ cards. The probability that the card picked is either a spade or a king.

  1. $ \displaystyle \frac{1}{26} $
  2. $ \displaystyle \frac{3}{26} $
  3. $ \displaystyle \frac{4}{13} $
  4. $ \displaystyle \frac{1}{9} $
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In a survey conducted among 400 students of X standard in Pune district, 187 offered to join Science faculty after X std. and 125 students offered to join Commerce faculty after X, If a student is selected at random from this group. Find the probability that student prefers Science or Commerce faculty.

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{39}{50}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{4}{5}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{41}{50}$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac{43}{50}$
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An integer is chosen at random from the first two hundred digits.What is the probability that the integer chosen is divisible by 6 or 8 ?

  1. $\displaystyle\frac{29}{100}.$
  2. $\displaystyle\frac{1}{4}.$
  3. $\displaystyle\frac{1}{8}.$
  4. $\displaystyle\frac{21}{100}.$
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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 $P(A \cup B)$

  1. $3/5$
  2. $0$
  3. $1$
  4. $2/5$
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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 $P(A\cup B)$ is 

  1. 1
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{2}{5}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{3}{5}$
  4. $0$
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A card is drawn is from pack of 52 cards. Find the probability of drawing '5' of spade or '8' of hearts

  1. $\dfrac{1}{52}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{26}$
  3. $\dfrac{3}{52}$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{13}$
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A box contains 5 red balls, 8 green balls and 10 pink balls. A ball is drawn at random from the box. What is the probability that the ball drawn is either red or green?

  1. $\dfrac{13}{23}$
  2. $\dfrac{10}{23}$
  3. $\dfrac{11}{23}$
  4. $\dfrac{13}{529}$
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A husband and a wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of husband`s selection is $\dfrac {1}{7}$ and that of wife's selection is $\dfrac {1}{5}$. What is the probability that only one of them will be selected?

  1. $\dfrac {1}{7}$
  2. $\dfrac {2}{7}$
  3. $\dfrac {3}{7}$
  4. $\dfrac {4}{7}$
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A number $x$ is selected from first $100$ natural numbers. Find the probability that $x$ satisfies the condition $x+ \dfrac{100}{x} >50$

  1. $\dfrac{55}{100}$
  2. $\dfrac{45}{100}$
  3. $1$
  4. $\dfrac{50}{100}$
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$A$ speaks the truth in $60%$ cases and $B$ in $70%$ cases. The probability that they will say the same thing while describing a single event is:

  1. $0.56$
  2. $0.54$
  3. $0.38$
  4. $0.94$
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In a single throw of two dice, the probability of obtaining a total of $7$ or $9,$ is:

  1. $\dfrac{4}{9}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{3}$
  3. $\dfrac{7}{18}$
  4. None of these
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The chance of throwing a total of $3$ or $5$ or $11$ with two dice is:

  1. $\dfrac{5}{36}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{9}$
  3. $\dfrac{2}{9}$
  4. $\dfrac{19}{36}$
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A and B are mutually exclusive events such that $P(A)=\frac{3}{5}$ and $ P(B)=\frac{1}{5}$, then find $P(A \cup B)$. 

  1. $\dfrac{2}{5}$
  2. $\dfrac{3}{5}$
  3. $\dfrac{4}{5}$
  4. None of these
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two dice each numbered from $1$ to $6$ are thrown together. Let $A$ and $B$ be two events given by
$A:$ even number on the first die
$B:$  number on the second die is greater than $4$

What is $P(A\cup B)$ equal to?

  1. $1/2$
  2. $1/4$
  3. $2/3$
  4. $1/6$
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A$ and $B$ are two events such that $P(A\cup B)=\cfrac { 3 }{ 4 } ,P(A\cap B)=\cfrac { 1 }{ 4 } ,P(\bar { A } )=\cfrac { 2 }{ 3 } $ where $\bar { A } $ is the complement of $A$, then what is $P(B)$ equal to?

  1. $\dfrac{1}{3}$
  2. $\dfrac{2}{3}$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{9}$
  4. $\dfrac{2}{9}$
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A is interviewed for $3$ posts. There are $3$ candidates for post $1,4$ for second post and $2$ for post No. three. The probability of A's being selected for at least one post is:

  1. $\dfrac{3}{4}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{2}$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{3}$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{5}$
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the probability of getting a total of $7$ or $11$ when a pair of dice is tossed.

  1. $\dfrac{1}{9}$
  2. $\dfrac{7}{9}$
  3. $\dfrac{2}{9}$
  4. $\dfrac{5}{9}$
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A is interviewed for $3$ posts. There are $3$ candidates for post $1, 4$ for second post and $2$ for post No. three. The probability of A's being selected for none of the posts is:

  1. $\dfrac{3}{4}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{2}$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{4}$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{5}$
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A number is selected at random from first thirty natural numbers. What is the chance that it is a multiple of either $3$ or $13$?

  1. $\dfrac{2}{5}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{9}$
  3. $\dfrac{11}{27}$
  4. $\dfrac{9}{27}$
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

If $P(A)=\dfrac {1}{8}$ and $P(B)=\dfrac {5}{8}$. Which of the following statement is/are not correct?

  1. $P(A\cup B)\leq \dfrac {3}{4}$
  2. $P(A\cap B)\leq \dfrac {1}{8}$
  3. $P(\overline A\cap B)\leq \dfrac {5}{8}$
  4. None of these
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Addition Theorem of Probability states that for any two events $A$ and $B$,

  1. $P(A$ $\cup$ $B) = P(A) + P(B)$
  2. $P(A$ $\cup$ $B) = P(A) + P(B) + P(A$ $\cap$ $B)$
  3. $P(A$ $\cup$ $B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A $$\cap$ $B)$
  4. $P(A$ $\cup$ $B) = P(A) \times P(B)$
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A, B and C in order toss a coin. the first one to throw a head wins. If A starts to toss, then 

  1. $P(A)=\dfrac{4}{7}$
  2. $P(B)=\dfrac{2}{7}$
  3. $P(C)=\dfrac{1}{7}$
  4. $P(C)=\dfrac{2}{7}$
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A bag contain $5$ balls of unknown colors. A ball is drawn at random from it and is found to be white. The probability that bag contains only white ball is

  1. $\dfrac{3}{5}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{5}$
  3. $\dfrac{2}{3}$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{3}$
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

n men and n women are seated at round table in random order. The probability that they can be divided into n non-interrecting pairs so that each pair consists of a man and a women is

  1. 1/2n
  2. $2(2^n-1)/^{2n}C _n$
  3. $2n/^{2n}C _n$
  4. $1/(^nC _n)^2$
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A is interviewed for $3$ posts. There are $4$ candidates for post $1, 3$ for second post and $5$ for post No. three. The probability of A's being selected for at least one post is:

  1. $\dfrac{3}{4}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{2}$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{3}$
  4. $\dfrac{3}{5}$
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$A$ is interviewed for $3$ posts. There are $4$ candidates for post $1, 3$ for second post and $5$ for post No. three. the probability of $A$'s being selected for none of the posts is:

  1. $\dfrac{3}{4}$
  2. $\dfrac{2}{5}$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{4}$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{5}$
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two dice are thrown simultaneously 500 times. Each time the sum of two numbers appearing on their tops is noted and recorded as given in the following table:

Sum  Frequency
2 14
3 30
4 43
5 55
6 72
7 75
8 70
9 53
10 46
11 28
12 15

If the dice are thrown once more, what is the probability of getting a sum between 8 and 12?

  1. $0.154$
  2. $0.20$
  3. $0.254$
  4. $0.30$

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