JEE Main Mathematics — Probability & Statistics previous year questions with solutions.
A variable $X$ takes values $0, 0, 2, 6, 12, 20, \ldots, n(n-1)$ with frequencies ${}^nC_0, {}^nC_1, {}^nC_2, {}^nC_3, {}^nC_4, {}^nC_5, \ldots, {}^nC_n$, respectively. If the mean of this data is $60$, then its median is :
A set of four observations has mean $1$ and variance $13$. Another set of six observations has mean $2$ and variance $1$. Then, the variance of all these $10$ observations is equal to:
A random variable $X$ takes values $0,1,2,3$ with probabilities $\frac{2 a+1}{30}, \frac{8 a-1}{30}, \frac{4 a+1}{30}, b$ respectively, where $\mathrm{a}, \mathrm{b} \in \mathbf{R}$. Let $\mu$ and $\sigma$ respectively be the mean and standard deviation of X such that $\sigma^{2}+\mu^{2}=2$. Then $\frac{\mathrm{a}}{\mathrm{b}}$ is equal to :
A man throws a fair coin repeatedly. He gets $10$ points for each head he throws and $5$ points for each tail he throws. If the probability that he gets exactly $30$ points is $\dfrac{m}{n}$, $\gcd(m, n) = 1$, then $m + n$ is equal to:
A letter is known to have arrived by post either from KANPUR or from ANANTPUR. On the envelope just two consecutive letters AN are visible. The probability, that the letter came from ANANTPUR, is:
A data consists of $20$ observations $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_{20}$. If $\sum_{i=1}^{20}(x_i + 5)^2 = 2500$ and $\sum_{i=1}^{20}(x_i - 5)^2 = 100$, then the ratio of mean to standard deviation of this data is:
A coin is tossed $8$ times. If the probability that exactly $4$ heads appear in the first six tosses and exactly $3$ heads appear in the last five tosses is $p$, then $96p$ is equal to _____.
A candidate has to go to the examination centre to appear in an examination. The candidate uses only one means of transportation for the entire distance out of bus, scooter and car. The probabilities of the candidate going by bus, scooter and car, respectively, are $\dfrac{2}{5}$, $\dfrac{1}{5}$ and $\dfrac{2}{5}$. The probabilities that the candidate reaches late at the examination centre are $\dfrac{1}{5}$, $\dfrac{1}{3}$ and $\dfrac{1}{4}$ if the candidate uses bus, scooter and car, respectively. Given that the candidate reached late at the examination centre, the probability that the candidate travelled by bus is:
A bag contains $(N+1)$ coins $- N$ fair coins, and one coin with 'Head' on both sides. A coin is selected at random and tossed. If the probability of getting 'Head' is $\dfrac{9}{16}$, then $N$ is equal to:
A bag contains 6 blue and 6 green balls. Pairs of balls are drawn without replacement until the bag is empty. The probability that each drawn pair consists of one blue and one green ball is :
A bag contains 10 balls out of which $k$ are red and ($10-k$) are black, where $0 \leq k \leq 10$. If three balls are drawn at random without replacement and all of them are found to be black, then the probability that the bag contains 1 red and 9 black balls is:
Two number $\mathrm{k}_1$ and $\mathrm{k}_2$ are randomly chosen from the set of natural numbers. Then, the probability that the value of $\mathrm{i}^{\mathrm{k}_1}+\mathrm{i}^{\mathrm{k}_2},(\mathrm{i}=\sqrt{-1})$ is non-zero, equals
Two balls are selected at random one by one without replacement from a bag containing 4 white and 6 black balls. If the probability that the first selected ball is black, given that the second selected ball is also black, is $\frac{m}{n}$, where $\operatorname{gcd}(m, n)=1$, then $m+n$ is equal to :
Three distinct numbers are selected randomly from the set $\{1,2,3, \ldots \ldots, 40\}$. If the probability, that the selected numbers are in an increasing G.P. is $\frac{m}{n}$, $\operatorname{gcd}(m, n)=1$, then $m+n$ is equal to _____.
Three defective oranges are accidently mixed with seven good ones and on looking at them, it is not possible to differentiate between them. Two oranges are drawn at random from the lot. If $x$ denote the number of defective oranges, then the variance of $x$ is
The variance of the numbers $8,21,34,47, \ldots, 320$ is
The probability, of forming a 12 persons committee from 4 engineers, 2 doctors and 10 professors containing at least 3 engineers and at least 1 doctor, is:
The mean and standard deviation of 100 observations are 40 and 5.1 , respectively, By mistake one observation is taken as 50 instead of 40. If the correct mean and the correct standard deviation are $\mu$ and $\sigma$ respectively, then $10(\mu+\sigma)$ is equal to
One die has two faces marked 1 , two faces marked 2 , one face marked 3 and one face marked 4 . Another die has one face marked 1 , two faces marked 2 , two faces marked 3 and one face marked 4. The probability of getting the sum of numbers to be 4 or 5 , when both the dice are thrown together, is
Marks obtains by all the students of class 12 are presented in a freqency distribution with classes of equal width. Let the median of this grouped data be 14 with median class interval 12-18 and median class frequency 12 . If the number of students whose marks are less than 12 is 18 , then the total number of students is
Let \(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_{10}\) be ten observations such that \(\sum_{i=1}^{10}\left(x_i-2\right)=30, \sum_{i=1}^{10}\left(x_i-\beta\right)^2=98, \beta\gt2\), and their variance is \(\frac{4}{5}\). If \(\mu\) and \(\sigma^2\) are respectively the mean and the variance of \(2\left(x_1-1\right)+4 \beta\), \(2\left(x_2-1\right)+4 \beta, \ldots ., 2\left(x_{10}-1\right)+4 \beta\), then \(\frac{\beta \mu}{\sigma^2}\) is equal to :
Let the Mean and Variance of five observations $x_1=1, x_2=3, x_3=a, x_4=7$ and $x_5=b, a \gt b$, be 5 and 10 respectively. Then the Variance of the observations $n+x_n, n=1,2, \ldots \ldots . .5$ is
Let the mean and the standard deviation of the observation $2,3,3,4,5,7$, a, b be 4 and $\sqrt{2}$ respectively. Then the mean deviation about the mode of these observations is :
Let S be the set of all the words that can be formed by arranging all the letters of the word GARDEN. From the set S, one word is selected at random. The probability that the selected word will NOT have vowels in alphabetical order is :