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A box contains 36 marbles. If a marble is picked at random, the probability of being red is 2/9. How many red marbles should be added to make this probability 1/3?

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Important Questions on Probability

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A and B are two independent witnesses (i.e., there is no collision between them) in a case. The probability that A will speak the truth is x and the probability that B will speak the truth is y. A and B agree in a certain statement. The probability that the statement is true is
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Four dice are thrown simultaneously and the numbers shown on these dice are recorded in 2×2 matrices. The probability that such formed matrices have all different entries and are non-singular, is:
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A signal which can be green or red with probability 4 5 and 1 5 respectively, is received by station A and then transmitted to station B . The probability of each station receiving the signal correctly is 3 4 . If the signal received at station B is green, then the probability that the original signal is green, is
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Letters in the word HULULULU are rearranged. The probability of all three L being together is
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Six persons A, B, C, X, Y & Z go for an interview. What is the probability of selection of A and Y in the interview?

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A die is thrown four times. The probability of getting perfect square in at least one throw is
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If A and B are events such that PA=0.42, PB=0.48 and P A and B=0.16. Then,

I. P not A=0.58

II. P not B=0.52

III. P A or B=0.47

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An urn contains 5 red and 2 green balls. A ball is drawn at random from the urn. If the drawn ball is green, then a red ball is added to the urn and if the drawn ball is red, then a green ball is added to the urn; the original ball is not returned to the urn. Now, a second ball is drawn at random from it. The probability that the second ball is red, is:
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In a college, 15th of the girls and 18th of the boys took part in a social camp. The total number of students in the college took part in the camp is:

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A bag contains 6 red balls and 10 green balls. 3 balls are drawn from it one by one randomly without replacement. If the 3rd drawn ball is red, then the probability that the first two drawn balls are green is
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A coin is tossed three times. If X denotes the absolute difference between the number of heads and the number of tails then PX=1=
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A random variable XB(n, p). If values of mean and variance of X are 18 and 12 respectively then total number of possible values of X are
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A computer producing factory has only two plants T1 and T2. Plant T1 produces 20% and plant T2 produces 80% of the total computers produced. 7% of computers produced in the factory turn out to be defective. The probability that a computer turns out to be defective which is produced in plant T1 is ten times of the computers produced in the plant T2. A computer produced in the factory is randomly selected and it does not turn out to be defective. Then the probability that it is produced in plant T2 is

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A box A contains 2 white, 3 red and 2 black balls. Another box B contains 4 white, 2 red and 3 black balls. If two balls are drawn at random, without replacement from a randomly, selected box and one ball turns out to be white while the other ball turns out to be red, then the probability that both balls are drawn from box B is :
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An unbiased coin is tossed. If the outcome is a head then a pair of unbiased dice is rolled and the sum of the numbers obtained on them is noted. If the toss of the coin results in tail then a card from a well-shuffled pack of nine cards numbered 1, 2, 3,, 9 is randomly picked and the number on the card is noted. The probability that the noted number is either 7 or 8 is
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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:
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In a random experiment, a fair die is rolled until two fours are obtained in succession. The probability that the experiment will end in the fifth throw of the die is equal to :

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It is given that events A and B are such that P(A)=14,P(AB)=12 and P(BA)=23, then P(B) is equal to
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For the following distribution function F(x) of a random variable X

x 1 2 3 4 5 6
F(x) 0.2 0.37 0.48 0.62 0.85 1

P 3<X 5=

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The mean and variance of a random variable X in binomial distribution are 4 and 2 respectively, then PX=1 is