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  • Out of 13 applicants for a job, there are 5 women and 8 men It is desired to select 2 persons for the job, The probability that atleast one of the selected persons will be a woman, is


  • Options
  • A. 25/39
  • B. 14/35
  • C. 5/13
  • D. 10/13

  • Correct Answer
  • 25/39 

    Explanation

    Total ways = 13c2
    Favourable number ways of selecting men only = 8c2
    ? Probability of selecting no woman
    = 8c2 / 13c2
    = 14/39
    ? Probability of selecting at least one woman
    = 1 - (14 / 39)
    = 25 / 39


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    • 1. 
      Tow persons A and B appear in an interview for two vacancies. If the probabilities of their selections are 1/3 and 1/6 respectively, then the probability that none of them is selected, is

    • Options
    • A. 5/8
    • B. 5/12
    • C. 1/12
    • D. 1/24
    • Discuss
    • 2. 
      In a lottery 10000 tickets are sold and ten prizes are awarded. What is the probability of not getting a prize, if you buy one ticket?

    • Options
    • A. 9/10000
    • B. 9/10
    • C. 999/100
    • D. 9999/10000
    • Discuss
    • 3. 
      The probability that a man will be alive for 10 more years is 1/4 and the probability that his wife will alive for 10 more years is 1/3 .The probability that none of them will be alive for 10 more years, is

    • Options
    • A. 5/12
    • B. 1/2
    • C. 7/12
    • D. 11/12
    • Discuss
    • 4. 
      Three mangoes and three apples are kept in a box. if two fruits are chosen at random. find the probability that one is a mango and the other is an apple.

    • Options
    • A. 2/3
    • B. 3/5
    • C. 1/3
    • D. 1/5
    • Discuss
    • 5. 
      A box contains 3 white and 2 red balls. If we draw one ball and ball and without replacing the first ball. The probability of drawing red ball in the second drawn is?

    • Options
    • A. 8/25
    • B. 2/5
    • C. 3/5
    • D. 21/25
    • Discuss
    • 6. 
      Five coins are tossed at a time. Then, the probability of obtaining at least one tail is

    • Options
    • A. 31/32
    • B. 1/32
    • C. 1/5
    • D. 5/32
    • Discuss
    • 7. 
      A and B are two events such that P(A) = 0.3 and P ( A?B) = 0.8. If A and B are independent, then P (B) is

    • Options
    • A. 2/3
    • B. 3/8
    • C. 2/7
    • D. 4/7
    • Discuss
    • 8. 
      A box contains 24 marbles, some are green and other are blue. If a marble is drawn at random from the box, the porbability that it is green is 2/3. The number of blue balls in the box is

    • Options
    • A. 13
    • B. 12
    • C. 16
    • D. 8
    • Discuss
    • 9. 
      A bag contains 3 red, 4 white and 7 black balls. The probability of drawing a red or a black ball, is

    • Options
    • A. 4/7
    • B. 1/7
    • C. 5/7
    • D. 3/7
    • Discuss
    • 10. 
      In a ward-robe, Nitish has 3 trousers. One of them is black, second is blue and third brown. In this ward-robe, he has 4 shirts also. One of them is black and the other 3 are white. He opens his ward-robe in the dark and picks out one shirt-trouser pair without examining the colour. What is the likelihood that neither the shirts nor the trousers are black?

    • Options
    • A. 1/12
    • B. 1/6
    • C. 1/4
    • D. 1/2
    • Discuss


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