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JEE Main Mathematics — Probability & Statistics previous year questions with solutions.

All Probability & Statistics Questions (389)

For three events, $A, B$ and $C,$ $P$(Exactly one of $A$ or $B$ occurs) $=P$(Exactly one of $B$ or $C$ occurs) $=P$(Exactly one of $C$ or $A$ occurs) $=\frac{1}{4}$ and $P$(All the three events occur simultaneously) $=\frac{1}{16}.$ Then the probability that at least one of the events occurs, is:

2017
medium
mcq

The sum of $100$ observations and the sum of their squares are $400&2475$, respectively. Later on, three observations $3,4&5$ were found to be incorrect. If the incorrect observations are omitted, then the variance of the remaining observations is

2017
easy
mcq

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

2017
easy
mcq

Let $E&F$ be two independent events. The probability that $E&F$ happen is $\frac{1}{12}$ and the probability that neither $E$ nor $F$ happens is $\frac{1}{2}$ , then a value of $\frac{P(E)}{P(F)}$ is:

2017
medium
mcq

A box contains $15$ green and $10$ yellow balls. If $10$ balls are randomly drawn, one-by-one, with replacement, then the variance of the number of green balls drawn is:

2017
easy
mcq

From a group of $10$ men and $5$ women, four member committees are to be formed each of which must contain at least one women. Then the probability for these committees to have more women than men, is :

2017
medium
mcq

If $A$ and $B$ are any two events such that $P(A)=\frac{2}{5}$ and $P(A\cap B)=\frac{3}{20},$ then the conditional probability, $P(A|({A}^{'}\cup {B}^{'})),$ where ${A}^{'}$ denotes the complement of $A$, is equal to :

2016
medium
mcq

If the mean deviation of the numbers $1, 1+d,\ldots , 1+100d$ from their mean is $255$, then a value of $d$ is :

2016
easy
mcq

Let two fair six-faced dice $A$ and $B$ be thrown simultaneously. If ${E}_{1}$ is the event that die $A$ shows up four, ${E}_{2}$ is the event that die $B$ shows up two and ${E}_{3}$ is the event that the sum of numbers on both dice is odd, then which of the following statements is not true?

2016
medium
mcq

If the standard deviation of the numbers $2,3,a$ and $11$ is $3.5$, then which of the following is true ?

2016
easy
mcq

The mean of $5$ observations is $5$ and their variance is $12.4$. If three of the observations are $1,2&6$; then the value of the remaining two is :

2016
easy
mcq

Let $X$ be a set containing $10$ elements and $P(X)$ be its power set. If $A$ and $B$ are picked up at random from $P(X)$, with replacement, then the probability that $A$ and $B$ have equal number of elements is:

2015
hard
mcq

If the mean and the variance of a binomial variate $X$ are $2&1$ respectively, then the probability that $X$ takes a value greater than or equal to one is:

2015
medium
mcq

If the lengths of the sides of a triangle are decided by the three throws of a single fair die, then the probability that the triangle is of maximum area given that it is an isosceles triangle, is:

2015
hard
mcq

The mean of a data set comprising of $16$ observations is $16$. If one of the observation value $16$ is deleted and three new observations valued $3, 4$ and $5$ are added to the data, then the mean of the resultant data is

2015
easy
mcq

If $12$ identical balls are to be placed in $3$ identical boxes, then the probability that one of the boxes contains exactly $3$ balls is

2015
hard
mcq

A factory is operating in two shifts, day and night, with $70$ and $30$ workers, respectively.If per day mean wage of the day shift workers is, $₹54$ and per day mean wage of all the workers is $₹60$, then per day mean wage of the night shift workers (in $₹$) is :

2015
easy
mcq

Let $A$ and $B$ be two events such that $P(\bar{A\cup B})=\frac{1}{6},P(A\cap B)=\frac{1}{4}$ and $P(\bar{A})=\frac{1}{4},$ where $\bar{A}$ stands for the complement of the event $A$. Then the events $A$ and $B$ are

2014
hard
mcq

The variance of the first $50$ even natural numbers is :

2014
easy
mcq

In a set of $2n$ distinct observations, each of the observation below the median of all the observations is increased by $5$ and each of the remaining observations is decreased by $3$. Then, the mean of the new set of observations :

2014
easy
mcq

If $X$ has a binomial distribution, $B(n, p)$ with parameters $n$ and $p$ such that $P(X=2)=P(X=3)$, then $\mathrm{E}(\mathrm{X})$, the mean of variable $\mathrm{X}$, is

2014
hard
mcq

Let $\bar{x}$, $M$ and ${\sigma }^{2}$ be respectively the mean, mode and variance of $n$ observations ${x}_{1},{x}_{2},....,{x}_{n}$ and ${d}_{i}=-{x}_{i}-a,i=1,2,....,n,$ where $a$ is any number. Statement I: Variance of ${d}_{1},{d}_{2},...,{d}_{n}$ is ${\sigma }^{2}$. Statement II: Mean and mode of ${d}_{1},{d}_{2},....,{d}_{n}$ are $-\bar{x}-a$ and $-M-a$, respectively.

2014
easy
mcq

If $A$and $B$ are two events such that $P(A\cup B)=P(A\cap B)$, then the incorrect statement amongst the following statements is :

2014
medium
mcq

A number $\mathrm{x}$ is chosen at random from the set $\{1$, $2,3,4, \ldots ., 100\}$. Define the event: $\mathrm{A}=$ the chosen number $x$ satisfies $\frac{(x-10)(x-50)}{(x-30)} \geq 0$ Then $\mathrm{P}(\mathrm{A})$ is:

2014
medium
mcq