1.A stationary box contains 3 fountain pens, 5 pencils and 9 ball pens. If four items are...
Question:
1.A stationary box contains 3 fountain pens, 5 pencils and 9 ball pens. If four items are drawn at random one by one without replacement, find the probability of getting all ball pens?
- 9/70
- 9/17
- 6/170
- 9/170
2.19 apples in a carton have numbers written from 1 to 19. Three apples are taken out of the carton without replacement. What is the probability that all the apples have even numbers on them?
- 6.8%
- 11.15%
- 8%
- 17%
3.In an intelligence test, a person is shown some colored cards one by one fastly, out of which 65% of were blue and 35% were green. The probability of surity given third card is green is 90%. Use this information to deduce how likely is it that the third card actually was green if the provided surity is used?
- 17.3%
- 82.89%
- 35%
- 65%
4.A jar contains 7 marbles out of which 1 is red, 4 are yellow and 2 are blue. Two marbles are drawn at random with replacement, what is the probability of getting a blue or a red marble at the end of second trial?
- 16/49
- 8/49
- 4/7
- 3/7
5.Ali shows symptoms of Malaria and advised by the doctor to get tested for confirmation. The prescribed test method comes positive 85% of the time the patient actually has Malaria. The test method gives false positive 10% of the time, i.e when the patient does not have Malaria. If 1.5% of the population is affected by Malaria, what is the probability that Ali has been infected by Malaria provided he tested positive?
- 11.41%
- 95%
- 7.48%
- 85%
Elementary Statistics A step by step approach
ISBN: 978-0073386102
8th edition
Authors: Allan Bluman