Mathematics Probability & Statistics questions from JEE Main 2021.
An electric instrument consists of two units. Each unit must function independently for the instrument to operate. The probability that the first unit functions is $0.9$ and that of the second unit is $0.8.$ The instrument is switched on and it fails to operate. If the probability that only the first unit failed and second unit is functioning is $p,$ then $98p$ is equal to
The mean of first n natural numbers is:
A student appeared in an examination consisting of $8$ true-false type questions. The student guesses the answers with equal probability. The smallest value of $n,$ so that the probability of guessing at least $n$ correct answers is less than $\frac{1}{2},$ is :
In a group of $400$ people, $160$ are smokers and non-vegetarian; $100$ are smokers and vegetarian and the remaining $140$ are non-smokers and vegetarian. Their chances of getting a particular chest disorder are $35%,20%$ and $10%$ respectively. A person is chosen from the group at random and is found to be suffering from the chest disorder. The probability that the selected person is a smoker and non-vegetarian is :
An online exam is attempted by $50$ candidates out of which $20$ are boys. The average marks obtained by boys is $12$ with a variance $2.$ The variance of marks obtained by $30$ girls is also $2.$ The average marks of all $50$ candidates is $15.$ If $\mu$ is the average marks of girls and ${\sigma }^{2}$ is the variance of marks of $50$ candidates, then $\mu +{\sigma }^{2}$ is equal to
Let there be three independent events ${E}_{1},{E}_{2}$ and ${E}_{3}.$ The probability that only ${E}_{1}$ occurs is $\alpha$ only ${E}_{2}$ occurs is $\beta$ and only ${E}_{3}$ occurs is $\gamma .$ Let $p''$ denote the probability of none of events occurs that satisfies the equations $(\alpha -2\beta )p=\alpha \beta$ and $(\beta -3\gamma )p=2\beta \gamma .$ All the given probabilities are assumed to lie in the interval $(0,1).$ Then, $\frac{\text{ Probability of occurrence of }{E}_{1}}{\text{ Probability of occurrence of }{E}_{3}}$ is equal to ________.
If the mean and variance of the following data: $6,10,7,13,a,12,b,12$ are $9$ and $\frac{37}{4}$ respectively, then ${(a-b)}^{2}$ is equal to:
Let in a series of $2n$ observations, half of them are equal to $a$ and remaining half are equal to $-a$. Also by adding a constant $b$ in each of these observations, the mean and standard deviation of new set become $5$ and $20$, respectively. Then the value of ${a}^{2}+{b}^{2}$ is equal to :
The mean age of $25$ teachers in a school is $40$ years. A teacher retires at the age of $60$ years and a new teacher is appointed in his place. If the mean age of the teachers in this school now is $39$ years, then the age (in years) of the newly appointed teacher is
The probability distribution of random variable $X$ is given by: <table class="pyq-table"><tbody><tr><td>$X$</td><td>$1$</td><td>$2$</td><td>$3$</td><td>$4$</td><td>$5$</td></tr><tr><td>$P(X)$</td><td>$K$</td><td>$2K$</td><td>$2K$</td><td>$3K$</td><td>$K$</td></tr></tbody></table>Let $p=P(1<X<4\mid X<3)$. If $5p=\lambda K$, then $\lambda$ is equal to
Words with or without meaning are to be formed using all the letters of the word $\mathrm{EXAMINATION}$. The probability that the letter $M$ appears at the fourth position in any such word is:
The mean of $10$ numbers $7\times 8,10\times 10,13\times 12,16\times 14,\ldots$ is
Let $A$ denote the event that a $6$-digit integer formed by $0,1,2,3,4,5,6$ without repetitions, be divisible by $3$ . Then probability of event $A$ is equal to :
If the mean and variance of six observations $7,10,11,15,a,b$ are $10$ and $\frac{20}{3},$ respectively, then the value of $|a-b|$ is equal to:
A fair die is tossed until six is obtained on it. Let $X$ be the number of required tosses, then the conditional probability $P(X\geqslant 5\mid X>2)$ is :
Two squares are chosen at random on a chessboard (see figure). The probability that they have a side in common is : 
Four dice are thrown simultaneously and the numbers shown on these dice are recorded in $2\times 2$ matrices. The probability that such formed matrices have all different entries and are non-singular, is:
Two dices are rolled. If both dices have six faces numbered $1,2,3,5,7$ and $11,$ then the probability that the sum of the numbers on the top faces is less than or equal to $8$ is:
A seven digit number is formed using digits $3,3,4,4,4,5,5$. The probability, that number so formed is divisible by $2$, is
An ordinary dice is rolled for a certain number of times. If the probability of getting an odd number $2$ times is equal to the probability of getting an even number $3$ times, then the probability of getting an odd number for odd number of times is:
The probability that two randomly selected subsets of the set ${1,2,3,4,5}$ have exactly two elements in their intersection, is:
When a missile is fired from a ship, the probability that it is intercepted is $\frac{1}{3}$ and the probability that the missile hits the target, given that it is not intercepted, is $\frac{3}{4}.$ If three missiles are fired independently from the ship, then the probability that all three hit the target, is:
The mean of $6$ distinct observations is $6.5$ and their variance is $10.25.$ If $4$ out of $6$ observations are $2,4,5$ and $7,$ then the remaining two observations are:
The first of the two samples in a group has $100$ items with mean $15$ and standard deviation $3.$ If the whole group has $250$ items with mean $15.6$ and standard deviation $\sqrt{13.44},$ then the standard deviation of the second sample is:
Let $A$ be a set of all $4$ -digit natural numbers whose exactly one digit is $7$. Then the probability that a randomly chosen element of $A$ leaves remainder $2$ when divided by $5$ is:
The mean and variance of $7$ observations are $8$ and $16$ respetively. If two observations are $6$ and $8,$ then the variance of the remaining $5$ observations is :
Let ${B}_{i}(i=1,2,3)$ be three independent events in a sample space. The probability that only ${B}_{1}$ occur is $\alpha ,$ only ${B}_{2}$ occurs is $\beta$ and only ${B}_{3}$ occurs is $\gamma .$ Let $p$ be the probability that none of the events ${B}_{i}$ occurs and these $4$ probabilities satisfy the equations $(\alpha -2\beta )p=\alpha \beta$ and $(\beta -3\gamma )p=2\beta \gamma$ (All the probabilities are assumed to lie in the interval $(0,1))$ Then $\frac{P({B}_{1})}{P({B}_{3})}$ is equal to______.
Let $X$ be a random variable such that the probability function of a distribution is given by $P(X=0)=\frac{1}{2},P(X=j)=\frac{1}{{3}^{j}}(j=1,2,3,\ldots ,\infty ).$ Then the mean of the distribution and $P(X$ is positive and even$)$ respectively, are:
Consider three observations $a,b$ and $c$ such that $b=a+c$. If the standard deviation of $a+2,c+2$ is $d$, then which of the following is true?
Let $A,B$ and $C$ be three events such that the probability that exactly one of $A$ and $B$ occurs is $(1-k),$ the probability that exactly one of $B$ and $C$ occurs is $(1-2k),$ the probability that exactly one of $C$ and $A$ occurs is $(1-k)$ and the probability of all $A,B$ and $C$ occur simultaneously is ${k}^{2},$ where $0<k<1.$ Then the probability that at least one of $A,B$ and $C$ occur is:
The probability that a randomly selected $2-$digit number belongs to the set ${n\in N:({2}^{n}-2)$ is a multiple of $3}$ is equal to
Let $n$ be an odd natural number such that the variance of $1,2,3,4,\ldots ,n$ is $14.$ Then $n$ is equal to ________.
The coefficients $a,b$ and $c$ of the quadratic equation, $a{x}^{2}+bx+c=0$ are obtained by throwing a dice three times. The probability that this equation has equal roots is:
Consider a set of $3n$ numbers having variance $4.$ In this set, the mean of first $2n$ numbers is $6$ and the mean of the remaining $n$ numbers is $3.$ A new set is constructed by adding $1$ into each of the first $2n$ numbers, and subtracting $1$ from each of the remaining $n$ numbers. If the variance of the new set is $k,$ then $9k$ is equal to ______.
When a certain biased die is rolled, a particular face occurs with probability $\frac{1}{6}-x$ and its opposite face occurs with probability $\frac{1}{6}+x.$ All other faces occur with probability $\frac{1}{6}.$ Note that opposite faces sum to $7$ in any die. If $0<x<\frac{1}{6},$ and the probability of obtaining total sum $=7,$ when such a die is rolled twice, is $\frac{13}{96},$ then the value of $x$ is
Let the mean and variance of four numbers $3,7,x$ and $y(x>y)$ be $5$ and $10$ respectively. Then the mean of four numbers $3+2x,7+2y,x+y$ and $x-y$ is ______.
Consider the following frequency distribution : <table class="pyq-table"><tbody><tr><td>class</td><td>$10-20$</td><td>$20-30$</td><td>$30-40$</td><td>$40-50$</td><td>$50-60$</td></tr><tr><td>Frequency</td><td>$\alpha$</td><td>$110$</td><td>$54$</td><td>$30$</td><td>$\beta$</td></tr></tbody></table>If the sum of all frequencies is $584$ and median is $45$, then $|\alpha -\beta |$ is equal to .
Let $X$ be a random variable with distribution. <table class="pyq-table"><tbody><tr><td>$x$</td><td>$-2$</td><td>$-1$</td><td>$3$</td><td>$4$</td><td>$6$</td></tr><tr><td>$P(X=x)$</td><td>$\frac{1}{5}$</td><td>$a$</td><td>$\frac{1}{3}$</td><td>$\frac{1}{5}$</td><td>$b$</td></tr></tbody></table>If the mean of $X$ is $2.3$ and variance of $X$ is ${\sigma }^{2},$ then $100{\sigma }^{2}$ is equal to :
Let $9$ distinct balls be distributed among $4$ boxes, ${B}_{1},{B}_{2},{B}_{3}$ and ${B}_{4}$. If the probability that ${B}_{3}$ contains exactly $3$ balls is $k{(\frac{3}{4})}^{9}$ then $k$ lies in the set :
If the variance of $10$ natural numbers $1,1,1,\ldots ,1,k$ is less than $10,$ then the maximum possible value of $k$ is ___________.
A pack of cards has one card missing. Two cards are drawn randomly and are found to be spades. The probability that the missing card is not a spade, is :
Consider the following frequency distribution: <table class="pyq-table"><tbody><tr><td>Class:</td><td>$0-6$</td><td>$6-12$</td><td>$12-18$</td><td>$18-24$</td><td>$24-30$</td></tr><tr><td>Frequency:</td><td>$a$</td><td>$b$</td><td>$12$</td><td>$9$</td><td>$5$</td></tr></tbody></table>If mean $=\frac{309}{22}$ and median $=14,$ then the value $(a-b{)}^{2}$ is equal to
Let ${X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots ,{X}_{18}$ be eighteen observations such that $\sum _{i=1}^{18}({X}_{i}-\alpha )=36$ and $\sum _{i=1}^{18}{({X}_{i}-\beta )}^{2}=90$, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are distinct real numbers. If the standard deviation of these observations is $1$, then the value of $|\alpha -\beta |$ is _______.
Let the mean and variance of the frequency distribution <table class="pyq-table"><tbody><tr><td>$x:$</td><td>${x}_{1}=2$</td><td>${x}_{2}=6$</td><td>${x}_{3}=8$</td><td>${x}_{4}=9$</td></tr><tr><td>$f:$</td><td>$4$</td><td>$4$</td><td>$\alpha$</td><td>$\beta$</td></tr></tbody></table>be $6$ and $6.8$ respectively. If ${x}_{3}$ is changed from $8$ to $7,$ then the mean for the new data will be:
Consider the statistics of two sets of observations as follows: <table class="pyq-table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td>Size</td><td>Mean</td><td>Variance</td></tr><tr><td>Observation I</td><td>$10$</td><td>$2$</td><td>$2$</td></tr><tr><td>Observation II</td><td>$n$</td><td>$3$</td><td>$1$</td></tr></tbody></table>If the variance of the combined set of these two observations is $\frac{17}{9},$ then the value of $n$ is equal to ________.
Let $S={1,2,3,4,5,6}.$ Then the probability that a randomly chosen onto function $g$ from $S$ to $S$ satisfies $g(3)=2g(1)$ is :
Let a computer program generate only the digits $0$ and $1$ to form a string of binary numbers with probability of occurrence of $0$ at even places be $\frac{1}{2}$ and probability of occurrence of $0$ at the odd place be $\frac{1}{3}.$ Then the probability that $10$ is followed by $01$ is equal to :
A fair coin is tossed $n-$ times such that the probability of getting at least one head is at least $0.9.$ Then the minimum value of $n$ is _______.
Let $A$ and $B$ be independent events such that $P(A)=p,P(B)=2p$. The largest value of $p$, for which $P$ (exactly one of $A,B$ occurs)$=\frac{5}{9}$, is:
The mean and standard deviation of $20$ observations were calculated as $10$ and $2.5$ respectively. It was found that by mistake one data value was taken as $25$ instead of $35.$ If $\alpha$ and $\sqrt{\beta }$ are the mean and standard deviation respectively for correct data, then $(\alpha ,\beta )$ is: