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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE WAHDAT ROAD LAHORE

Name of Professor: Shahid Iqbal
Subject: STAT- II

Name of Class: BS 4 Year Program (Econs/Stats)

1. What is the probability of choosing at random one of the following cards from a normal pack of 52
playing cards?
a) A red card
b) A black card or not a red card
c) A spade
d) Not a spade
e) An ace
f) Not an ace
g) The ace of spades
h) A picture card
i) A number card or not a picture card
j) A card that is either a heart or a club
k) A card that is neither a heart or a club
l) A 4 or 5
m) A 4 or 5 but not a spade
n) An even numbered card
2. What is the probability of rolling the following from a 4 sided die?
a) 5. A 4
b) 6. An even number
c) 7. Higher than 3
d) 8. A factor of 24
3. In a single throw of a die, what is the probability of getting
a) an odd number?
b) an even number?
c) a prime number?
d) a number greater than 4?
e) a number from 1 to 6?
f) a number except 5?
4. A card is chosen at random from a normal deck. What is the probability of choosing?
a) a king or a jack
b) a king and a queen
c) a king and red card
d) a face card and a heart
5. A glass jar contains 6 red, 5 green, 8 blue and 3 yellow marbles. If a single marble is chosen at random
from the jar, what is the probability of choosing
a) a red marble?
b) a green marble?
c) a blue marble?
d) a yellow marble?
6. A spinner has 4 equal sectors colored yellow, blue, green, and red. What is the probability of landing on
purple after spinning the spinner?
7. A teacher chooses a student at random from a class of 30 girls. What is the probability that the student
chosen is a girl?
8. A total of five cards are chosen at random from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the
probability of choosing 5 aces?
9. A single 6-sided die is rolled. What is the probability of rolling a number less than 7?
10. A class tossed coins and recorded 161 heads and 179 tails. What is the experimental probability of
heads? Of tails?
11. An integer is chosen from 2 to 15. What is the probability that it is prime.
12. Find the theoretical probability of getting a prime number when you roll a number cube.
13. If coin is flipped once, what is the probability of it landing heads?
14. A standard number cube is tossed. Find the probability of P(4 or even).

15. Suppose you roll 2 number cubes. What is probability that you will roll an odd number on one cube and
a multiple of 3 on the other cube?
16. A standard number cube is tossed. Find the probability of P(greater than 1 or less than 5).
17. You are drawing a card from a regular deck of cards. Find the probability that you will draw an ace or a
king.
18. When a card is drawn from a pack of 52 playing card, what is the probability of getting
(a)
an ace and a heart?
(b)
an ace or a heart?
19. A card is chosen at random from a normal deck. What is the probability of choosing?
a) a king or a queen.
b) a face card or a 2.
20. You are drawing one card from a regular deck of cards, what is the probability that you draw an ace or a
spade?
21. A single letter is chosen at random from the word SCHOOL. What is the probability of choosing an S or
an O?
22. Let A be the event of drawing an ace and B be the event of drawing a spade. Is there an overlap in
sample spaces? In other words, can a card be an ace and a spade
23. The table below shows the difference in political ideology, by education, for a random group of U.S.
voters. Use the data to find the probability that a randomly selected person from this group is a liberal
or has only a high school education.

Liberal

Moderate

High School only

35

Conservativ
e
13

College

20

15

10

24. A group of students consists of 10 male freshmen, 5 female freshmen, 20 male sophomores, and 18
female sophomores. If one person is randomly selected from the group, find the probability of selecting
a freshman or a female.
25. A box contains ten assemblies of which two ar defective. A sample of three assemblies is selected at
random. What is the probability that the two defective parts will be selected?
26. A coin is tossed five times. (This is the same as a sample size of five). What is the probability of
obtaining exactly two heads in the five tosses?
27. A lot of fifteen items contains five defective items. Two items are drawn at random. What is the
probability that the second item drawn will be defective?
28. A fair coin is tossed four times and the outcome of each toss is recorded. Find the probability for the
events named below:
A: The first toss is tails.
B: All four tosses are tails.
C: At least three tosses are tails.
29. A die is rolled four times. Find the chance of not getting 4 sixes.
30. Amir flips a coin four times. What is the probability that he gets heads on at least one of the four flips?
31. Josh flips a coin 4 times. What is the probability that he will get heads on the first 2 throws and tails on
the last 2 throws?
32. There are a total of 10 marbles in a jar, of which five are green marbles and 5 are blue. If 2 marbles
are removed from the jar at random, what is the probability that the 2 marbles removed from the jar
will both be blue?
33. The probability that a company director will travel by train is 1/5 and by plane is 2/3. What is the
probability of his travelling by train or plane ?

34. If I have 5 red balls, 6 blue balls, and 3 yellow balls in the box, what is the probability that I choose
exactly 2 red balls from the box if I take 3 out of the box? (In other words, the third ball could be either
blue or yellow.)
35. Four cards are drawn at random from a well suffled pack of cards. Find the probability that(a)
i- all the four are queens.
ii- there is one card from each suit
iii- two cards are diamonds and two are spades.
iv- all the four cards are hearts, and one of them is a jack.
(b) Draw three cards at random. Find the chance that they are a king , a queen and a jack.
36. A bag contains 4 red, 5 white and 6 black balls.What is the probability that two balls drawn are red and
black ?
37. Among a group of classmates, 4 like to wake up early, 24 like to stay up late, 3 like to get up early and
stay out late, and 7 like neither to wake up early nor to stay up late. Depict this in a table or in a Venn
diagram. Are the events like to wake up early and like to stay up late statistically independent?
38. Urn A contains 3 red and 3 black balls, whereas urn B contains 4 red and 6 black balls. If a ball is
randomly selected from each urn, what is the probability that the balls will be the same color?
39. In the game of monopoly, a player rolls two dice, counts the total number of dots, and moves that
many squares. Find the chance that the player moves 11 squares (no more and no less).
40. A six-sided die with faces numbered one through six is rolled twice. What is the probability that the
face with the number 2 on it will not be facing upward on either role?
41. A six-sided die is tossed twice. What is the conditional probability of getting a 4 on the second toss,
given that you got a 4 on the first toss?
42. You have torn a tendon and are facing surgery to repair it. The orthopedic surgeon explains the risks to
you. Infection occurs in 3% of such operations, the repair fails in 14%, and both infection and failure
occur together in 1%. What percent of these operations both succeed and are free from infection?
43. Vivian, an adequate blackjack player at best, has a 25% chance of winning each hand of blackjack she
plays. If she has $300, and bets $100 a hand, what is the probability that she will still have money
after the third hand?
44. A coin is tossed and a single 6-sided die is rolled. Find the probability of landing on the head side of the
coin and rolling a 3 on the die.
45. A card is chosen at random from a deck of 52 cards. It is then replaced and a second card is chosen.
What is the probability of choosing a jack and an eight?
46. A poker hand is dealt. Find the probability that the first four cards are aces and the fifth is a king.
47. Two cards will be dealt from a well shuffled deck. What is the probability that at least one of the two
cards is a queen?

48. A jar contains 3 red, 5 green, 2 blue and 6 yellow marbles. What is the probability of choosing a green
and a yellow marble if the first marble chosen at random from the jar is(a ) replaced (b) not replaced,
before the second marble is chosen.
49. A jar contains black and white marbles. Two marbles are chosen without replacement. The probability
of selecting a black marble and then a white marble is 0.34, and the probability of selecting a black
marble on the first draw is 0.47. What is the probability of selecting a white marble on the second
draw, given that the first marble drawn was black?
50. The probability that it is Friday and that a student is absent is 0.03. Since there are 5 school days in a
week, the probability that it is Friday is 0.2. What is the probability that a student is absent given that
today is Friday?
51. A card is drawn from an ordinary deck and we are told that it is red, what is the probability that the
card is greater than 2 but less than 9.
52. A pair of dice is thrown. If it is known that one die shows a 4, what is the probability that
a) the other die shows a 5
b) the total of both the die is greater than 7
53. An urn contains three red balls and one black ball. Two balls are selected without replacement. What
is the probability that a red ball is selected on the second draw?
54. A bag contains 7 golden and 4 violet balls . Two successive drawings of 3 balls are made such that
i- balls are replaced before the second trial .
ii- balls are not replaced before the second trail .
Find the probability that the first drawing will give 3 golden and the second drawing will give 3 violet
balls for each case .
55. An article consists of two parts .The manufacturing process of each part is such that the probability of
defect in the first part is 0.06 and that in the second part is 0.09 .what is the probability that the
assembled product will not have any defect ?
56. A is known to hit the target in 2 out of 5 shots , whereas B is known to hit the target in 3 out of 4 shots.
Find the probability of the target being hit when they both try .
57. If x is to be chosen at random from the set {1,2,3,4} and y is to be chosen at random from the set
{5,6,7}, what is the probability that xy will be even?
58. An ordinary deck of 52 cards is shuffled. What is the probability that the one by one drawn four cards
have suits in the order Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs, and Spades (a) if the cards replaced (b) not replaced?
59. A construction firm has bid on two different contracts. Let B1 be the event that the first bid is
successful and B2, that the second bid is successful. Suppose that P(B1) = .4, P(B2) = .6 and that the
bids are independent. What is the probability that:
a) both bids are successful?
b) neither bid is successful?
c) is successful in at least one of the bids?
60. Given that P(A) = .3 , P(B) = .6, and P(B|A) = .4 find:
a) P(A and B)

b) P(A or B)
c) P(A|B)
61. Given P(A | B) = 0.55 and P(A or B) = 0.64 and P(B) = 0.3. Find P(A).
62. If 60% of a department stores customers are female and 75% of the female customers have a store
charge card, what is the probability that a customer selected at random is female and had a store
charge card?
63. You are drawing two cards from a regular deck of cards, what is the probability that you draw 2 aces?
64. A single die is rolled twice. Find the probability of rolling a five the first time and an even number the
second time.
65. Suppose 5% of a box of 100 light bulbs is defective. If a store owner tests two light bulbs from the
shipment and will accept the shipment only if both work. What is the probability that the owner rejects
the shipment?
66. Dan can hit the bulls eye of the time; Daren can hit the bulls eye of the time and Duane can hit
the bulls eye of the time. Given that someone hits the bulls eye, what is the probability that it is
Dan?
67. A hat contains a number of cards, with 30% white on both sides, 50% black on one side and white on
the other, 20% black on both sides. The cards are mixed up, then a single card is drawn at random and
placed on the table. If the top side is black, what is the chance that the other side is white?
68. State and prove Bayes theorem.

69. A factory has three plants. Records show that the plant I produced 30% of the items of the output, the
plant II produces 45% of the items of the output and the plant III produces 25% of the items of the
output. Further, 2%, 5% and 3% of the items produced by the plants I, II and III are defective
respectively. If a defective item is drawn at random, find the probability that the defective item was
produced by plant II.