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Box I contains $2$ white and $3$ red balls and box II contains $4$ white and $5$ red balls. One ball is drawn at random from one of the boxes and is found to be red. Then, the probability that it was from box II, is?

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  1. $\cfrac{54}{44}$

  2. $\cfrac{54}{14}$

  3. $\cfrac{54}{104}$

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Probability that the ball drawn is red and from ! =$P(R/A)$

$P(R/A) = \cfrac{P(A/R)\times P(A)}{P(B/R)\times P(B) + P(A/R) \times P(A)}$
$P(R/A) = \cfrac{3}{5}, P(R/B) = \cfrac{5}{9}$
$P(A) = \cfrac{1}{2}, P(B) = \cfrac{1}{2}$
$P(R/A) = \cfrac{\cfrac{3}{5}\times \cfrac{1}{2}}{\cfrac{5}{9}\times \cfrac{1}{2} + \cfrac{3}{5} \times \cfrac{1}{2}} = \cfrac{54}{104}$

An arrangement is selected at random from all possible arrangements of five digits written from the digits $0,1,2,3,\cdots 9$ with repetition. The probability that the randomly selected arrangement will have largest number $'8'$ given that the smallest number is $'4'$ is :

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  1. $\dfrac {1253}{6480}$

  2. $\dfrac {513}{4651}$

  3. $\dfrac {2881}{6480}$

  4. $\dfrac {1320}{4651}$

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Correct Option: C

If two events A and B are such that $P(A')=0.3, P(B)=0.5$ and $P(A\cap B)=0.3$ then $P(B/A\cup B)$=

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  1. 0.375

  2. 0.32

  3. 0.31

  4. 0.28

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Correct Option: A

The number of committees formed by taking $5men$ and $5women$ from $6women$ and $7men$ are

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  1. 252

  2. 125

  3. 126

  4. 64

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Correct Option: C

A bag contains 12 balls out of which x are white.If one ball is drawn at random, what is the probability it will be a white ball?

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  1. $ \displaystyle \frac{x}{2}$

  2. $\displaystyle \frac{x}{12}$

  3. $ \displaystyle \frac{x}{10}$

  4. $ \displaystyle \frac{12}{x}$

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Total number of balls = 12
Number of white balls = x
P (white ball) = $= \displaystyle \frac{x}{12}$

A pack of playing cards was found to contain only $51$ cards. If the first $13$ cards which are examined are all red, then the probability thatthe missing card is black, is

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  1. $\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}$

  2. $\displaystyle \frac{2}{3}$

  3. $\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}$

  4. $\displaystyle \frac{^{25} C _{13}}{^{51} C _{13}}$

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

$Total\quad number\quad of\quad cards=52\ Number\quad of\quad lost\quad cards=1\ 13\quad cards\quad are\quad surely\quad red\quad therfore,\quad from\quad the\quad remaining\quad 39\quad cards\quad 26\quad are\quad black\quad and\quad 13\quad are\quad red\ So\quad probability\quad of\quad lost\quad card\quad being\quad black\quad =\frac { \left( 26\ 1 \right)  }{ \left( 39\ 1 \right)  } =\frac { 26 }{ 39 } =\frac { 2 }{ 3 } $

Bag $A$ contains $2$ white and $3$ red balls and bag $B$ contains $4$ white and $5$ red balls. One ball is drawn at random from one of the bag is found to be red. Find the probability that it was drawn from bag $B$.

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  1. $\dfrac{3}{8}$

  2. $\dfrac{25}{52}$

  3. $\dfrac{1}{8}$

  4. $\dfrac{3}{14}$

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Let $X$ be the probability of choosing bag $A$,$Y$ be the probability of choosing bag $B$


Let $E$ be the probability of ball drawn is red


Then $P\left( X \right) = \dfrac{1}{2}$

$P\left( Y \right) = \dfrac{1}{2}$

$P\left( {E/X} \right) = \dfrac{3}{5}$

$P\left( {E/Y} \right) = \dfrac{5}{9}$

Apply the Bayes theorem:

$P\left( {Y/E} \right) = \dfrac{{P\left( Y \right) \times P\left( {E/Y} \right)}}{{P\left( X \right) \times P\left( {E/X} \right) + P\left( Y \right) \times P\left( {E/Y} \right)}}$

                 $ = \dfrac{{\dfrac{1}{2} \times \dfrac{5}{9}}}{{\dfrac{1}{2} \times \dfrac{3}{5} + \dfrac{1}{2} \times \dfrac{5}{9}}}$

                 $ = \dfrac{{50}}{{104}}$

                 $ = \dfrac{{25}}{{52}}$

Hence, the probability that the red ball is drawn from bag $B$ is  $ = \dfrac{{25}}{{52}}$

An urn contains $10$ balls coloured either black or red When selecting two balls from the urn at random, the probability that a ball of each color is selected is $8/15$. Assuming that the urn contains more black balls then red balls, the probability that at least one black ball is selected, when selecting two balls, is

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  1. $\dfrac {18}{45}$

  2. $\dfrac {30}{45}$

  3. $\dfrac {39}{45}$

  4. $\dfrac {41}{45}$

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Number of black balls $=x$

Number of red balls $=y$

$i)=x+y=10$ (Total)

$ii)\ P$ (selecting exactly $1$ black & one red)

$=^xC _1\times ^yC _1 /^{10}C _2=8/15$

by equation : $x^2-10x+24=0\ ;\ x=4$ or $6$

since $ x > y$ it is $6$

$iii)\ P$ (selecting at least one black)

$=^xC _1\times ^yC _1 +^xC _2 /^{10}C _2$

Above equation reduced to $\Rightarrow \ 2xy+x(x-1)/90$

putting $x=6$, results is $39/45$

There are six letters $L _1, L _2, L _3, L _4, L _5, L _6$ are their corresponding six envelopes $E _1, E _2, E _3, E _4, E _5, E _6$. Letters having odd value can be put into odd value envelopes and even value letters can be put into even value envelopes, so that no letter go into the right envelopes, then number of arrangement equals?

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  1. $6$

  2. $9$

  3. $44$

  4. $4$

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

There are three odd envelops and three even envelops 

Favourable ways so that  letters having odd value can be put into odd value envelopes and even value letters can be put into even value envelopes, so that no letter go into the right envelopes are
For odd 1,3,5 -,,_
5 1 3,3 5 1

For even 2,4,6- _,_,_
6 2 4,4 6 2

There are four ways

Two unbiased dice are thrown. The probability that the sum of the numbers appearing on the top face of two dice is greater than $7$ if $4$ appear on the top face of the first dice is...

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  1. $\dfrac {1}{3}$

  2. $\dfrac {1}{2}$

  3. $\dfrac {1}{12}$

  4. $\dfrac {1}{6}$

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

$\begin{array}{l}\left. \begin{array}{l}{\rm{combinations}} = \left( {4,1} \right)\left( {4,2} \right)\\left( {4,3} \right)\left( {4,4} \right)\end{array} \right} \le 7\\left. {\left( {4,5} \right)\left( {4,6} \right)} \right} > 7\{\rm{P}}\left( { > 7} \right) = \frac{1}{3}\end{array}$