1- Find the ways in which the subjects, " Aptitute, Technical" can be

attempted in an exam.

2- Find the ways in which the subjects, " Science, Maths and English" can
be attempted in an exam.

3- How many 4 digit number are possible with the digits 1,2,3,6,7,8,9?

a) digits can't repeat

b) digits can repeat

4- How many 4 digits are possible with digits 1,2,3,6,7,8,0

a) digits can't repeat

b) digits can repeat

5- How many 3 digit numbers greater than 400 can be made without
repetition with the digits-{2,3,4,0,5,6}?

6- How many 3 digit numbers between 200 and 700 can be made without
repetition with the digits-{1,4,3,0,5,6}?

7- How many 4 digit numbers can be made with digits-{1,2,3,4,5,6} if

number is divisible by 5 without repetition?

8- How many 4 digit numbers can be made with digits-{0,1,2,3,4,5,6} if

number divisible by 5 without repetition?

9- How many 4 digit odd numbers can be made with the digits -
{0,1,2,3,4,5,6} without repetition?

10- How many 4 digit even numbers can be made with the digits-{
0,1,2,3,4,5,6} without repetition

11-Find the number of permutations and combinations of {a,b,c} taken two

at a time.

12- Find the number of permutations of all the letters of the word
“committee.”
13- A bag contains 8 white and 6 red balls. Find the probability of drawing 2
balls of the same color.

14- Find the probability of drawing an ace or spade from a deck of card.

15- The probability of obtaining at least two sixes in throwing a fair dice 4
times is GATE 2015

a) 425/432 b) 19/144 c) 13/144 d) 125/432

16- Two cards are drawn in succession from a pack of 52 cards. Find the
chance that the first is a king and second a queen if the first card is

1) replaced

2) not replaced

17- 3 machines produce identical items. Of their respective output 5%,4%

and 3% of the items are faulty. On a certain day M1 has produced 25% of
the total output, M2- 30% and M3 the remainder. An output selected at
random is found to be faulty. What are the chances that it was produced by
the machine with the highest output?

18- The chance of a student passing in an exam is 20%. The chance of a

student passing in an exam and getting above 90% in it is 5%. Given that
student passes the examination, the probability that the student gets above
90% marks is GATE 2015

a) 1/18 b)1/4 c) 2/9 d) 5/18

19- P(X)=1/4 P(Y)=1/3 P(XᴒY)=1/12, value of P(Y/X) =

GATE 2015

a) 1/4 b) 4/45 c) 1/3 d) 29/50

20- A dice is thrown 3 times. A success is getting 1 or 6 on a toss. Find the

mean and variance of the number of successes.

21- In the following table, x is a discrete random variable and P(x) is the
probability density. The standard deviation of x is GATE 2014
 x 1 2 3

P(x) .3 .6 .1

a) 0.18 b) 0.36 c) 0.54 d) 0.6

22- The probability that a pen manufactured by a company will be defective

is 1/10. If 12 such pens are manufactured, find the probability that

a) exactly 2 will be defective

b) at least 2 will be defective

c) none will be defective.

23- A group consists of equal number of men and women. Of this group
20% of men and 50% of women are unemployed. If a person is selected at
random from this group, the probability of selected person being employed
is ..…… GATE 2014

24- If the probability of a bad reaction from a certain injection is 0.001,

determine the chance that out of 2000 individuals, more than 2 will get a
bad reaction.

25- A manufacturer of air mail envelops knows from experience that the
weight of the envelopes is normally distributed with mean 1.95 gram and
standard deviation 0.05 gm. About how many envelops weighing a) 2 gms
or more b) 2.05 gms or more can be expected in a given packet of 100
envelopes.

26- A nationalized bank has found that the daily balance available in its
savings account follows a normal distribution with a mean of Rs 500 and a
standard deviation of Rs 50. The percentage of saving account holders
who maintain an average daily balance more than Rs 500 is…….

GATE 2014
27- Let x be normal random variable with mean 1 and variance 4. The
probability(x<0) is GATE 2013

a) 0.5

b) greater than 0 and less than 0.5

c) greater than 0.5 and less than 1

d) 1

28- The probability that a screw manufactured by a company is defective is

0.1. The company sells screws in packets containing 5 screws and gives a
guarantee of replacement if 1 or more screws in the packet are found to be
defective. The probability that a packet would have to be replaced is…

GATE 2016

29- Three vendors were asked to supply a very high precision component.
The respective probabilities of their meeting the strict design specifications
are 0.8, 0.7 and 0.5. Each vendor supplies one component. The probability
that out of total three components supplied by the vendors, at least one will
meet the design specification is ……… GATE 2015

30- A box contains 25 parts of which 10 are defective. Two parts are being
drawn simultaneously in a random manner from the box. The probability of
both the parts being good is GATE 2014

a) 7/20 b) 42/125 c) 25/29 d)5/9

31- Consider an unbiased cubic dice with opposite faces colored identically
and each face colored red, blue or green such that each colors appears
only two times on the dice. If the dice is thrown thrice, the probability of
obtaining red color on top face of the dice at least twice is …

GATE 2014
32- A box contains 4 red balls, 6 black balls. Three balls are selected at
random from the box one after another without replacement. The
probability that selected set contains one red ball and two black balls is

GATE 2012

a) 1/20. b) 1/12. c) 3/10. d) 1/2

33- An automobile pant contracted to buy shock absorbers from two

suppliers X and Y. X supplies 60% , Y supplies 40% of the shock
absorbers. All shock absorbers are subjected to a quality test. The one's
that pass the quality test are considered reliable. Of X's shock absorbers,
96% are reliable. Of Y's shock absorbers, 72% are reliable.

The probability that a randomly chosen shock absorber which is found to

be reliable is made by Y is. GATE 2012

a) 0.288. b) 0.334. c) 0.666. d) 0.720

34- An unbiased coin is tossed 5 times. The outcome of each toss is either
a head or a tail. The probability of at least one head is GATE 2011

a) 1/32. b) 13/32. c) 16/32. d) 31/32

35- A box contains 2 washers, 3 nuts and 4 bolts. Items are drawn from the
box at random one at a time without replacement. The probability of
drawing 2 washers first followed by 3 nuts and subsequently the 4 bolts is

GATE 2010

a) 2/315. b) 1/630. c) 1/1260. d) 1/2520

36- If 3 coins are tossed simultaneous, the probability of getting at atleast

one head is GATE 2009

a) 1/8. b) 3/8. c) 1/2 d) 7/8

37- Two coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability ( upto 2 decimal
place accuracy) of getting at least one head is …. 0.75. GATE 2017

38- A couple has two children. The probability that both children are boys if
the older one is a boy is GATE 2017

a) 1/4 b) 1/3. c)1/2 d) 1

39- The number of accidents occurring in a plant in a month follows

Poisons distribution with mean as 5.2. The probability of occurrence of less
than 2 accidents in the plant during a randomly selected month is
GATE 2014

a) 0.029 b ) 0.034 c) 0.039. d) 0.044

40- Demand during lead time with associated probabilities is shown below:

Demand. 50. 70. 75. 80. 85. GATE 2014

Probability 0.15. 0.14. 0.21. 0.20. 0.3
Expected demand during lead time is ….

41 - A machine produces 0,1 or 2 defective pieces in a day with associated

probability of 1/6, 2/3 and 1/6 respectively. The mean value and variance of
the number of defective pieces produced by the machine in a day
respectively are

a)1 and 1/3. b) 1/3 and 1. c) 1 and 4/3 d) 1/3 and 4/3
GATE 2014

42- Out of all the two digit integers between 1 and 100, a 2 digit number
has to be selected at random. What is the probability that the selected
number is not divisible by 7? GATE 2013

a) 13/90. b)12/90. c) 78/90. d) 77/90

43- Consider the continuous random variable with probability density
function

F(t) = 1 + t for -1<= t<= 0. GATE 2006

=1-t 0<= t <= 1

The standard deviation of the random variable is

a) 1/√3. b) 1/√6. c) 1/3. d) 1/6

44- A lot has 10% defective items. Ten items are chosen randomly from
this lot. The probability that exactly 2 of the chosen items are defective is

GATE 2005

a) 0.0036. b) 0.1937. c) 0.2234 d) 0.3874

45- A dice is thrown twice. What is the probability that the sum is neither 8
nor 9 ? … GATE 2005

46- From a pack of regular playing cards two cards are drawn at random.
What is the probability that both cards will be kings if 1st card is not
replaced GATE 2004

a) 1/26. b) 1/52. c) 1/169. d) 1/221

47- A box contains 5 black and 5 red balls. Two balls are randomly picked
one after another from the box without replacement. The probability for
balls being red is ….. GATE 2003

48- Two dice are thrown. What is the probability that the sum of the
numbers on the two dice is eight ? GATE 2002

a) 5/36 b) 5/18. c) 1/4 d) 1/3

49- An unbiased coin is tossed 3 times. The probability that the head turns
up in exactly 2 of the cases is GATE 2001

a) 1/9. b) 1/8. c) 2/3. d) 3/8

50- A box contains 20 defective and 80 non defective items. If two items
are selected at random without replacement what will be the probability that
both items are defective. GATE 2017

a) 1/5. b ) 1/25. c) 20/99. d) 19/495

51- A coin is tossed 4 times. What is the probability of getting heads exactly
3 times?

a) 1/4 b) 3/8. c) 1/2 d) 3/4

52- A person moving through a tuberculosis prone zone has a 50%

probability of becoming infected. However, only 30% of infected people
develop the disease. What percentage of people moving through a
tuberculosis prone zone remains infected but does not show symptoms of
disease? GATE 2016
a) 15. b) 33. c) 35. d) 37

53- The waiting time in restaurant is exponentially distributed with a mean

of 30 mins. What is the probability that a customer has to

a) Wait for more than 30 mins.

b) Wait for less than 30 mins.

54- Assume time between arrivals of customers at a particular bank is

exponentially distributed with a mean of 4 mins

Find the probability that

a) the time between arrivals is greater than 5 mins.

b) the time between arrivals is between 1 and 4 mins.

55- A fair coin is tossed till a head appears for the first time. The probability
of the numbers of required tosses is odd is. GATE 2012

a) 1/3. b) 1/2 c) 2/3. d) 3/4

56- A fair dice is tossed two times. The probability that the second toss
results in a value that is higher than the first toss is
 a) 2/36. b) 2/6. c)5/12 d) 1/2

57- A fair coin is tossed independently 4 times. The probability of the event
“the number of times heads shown up is more than the number of times tail
shown up.”. GATE 2010

a) 1/16. b) 1/3 c) 1/4 d) 5/16

58- A fair coin is tossed 10 times.What is the probability that only first two
tosses will yield heads?

a) (1/2)^2. b) 10 C2 (1/2)^2. c) (1/2)^10. d) 10C2 (1/2)^10

59- An exam consists of 2 papers, paper 1 and paper 2. The probability of

failing in paper 1 is 0.3 and that in paper 2 is 0.2. Given that the student
has failed in paper 2, the probability of failing in paper 1 is 0.6. The
probability of a student failing in both the papers is GATE 2007

a) 0.5. b) 0.18. c) 0.12. d) 0.06

60- A probability density function of the form p(x) = k*exp(-α|x|) x €(-inf, inf).
The value of k is. GATE 2007

a) 0.5. b) 1. c) 0.5 α d) α

61- A fair dice is rolled twice. The probability that an odd number will follow
an even number is GATE 2005

a) 1/2 b) 1/6. c) 1/3. d)1/4

62- A plane has a flight time of 60 mins to 90 mins. Using uniform

distribution find the probability that the flight will land between 75 mins and
90 mins.
Mean median mode and standard deviation

1- Find mean, median, mode and standard deviation of following data

1,2,3,4,2,2,6,8

2-

Weekly earnings No of employees

10-12 3

12-14 6

14-16 10

Find the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of the given data

3- Find mean of combined sample:

1st sample: sample size= 10, mean of this sample=5

2nd sample: sample size= 5, mean of this sample=2

4- Find median, mode, lower quartile, upper quartile of following data

Marks No of students

5-10 5

10-15 6

15-20 15

20-25 10

25-30 5

30-35 4

35-40 2

40-45 2
5- Calculate mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation for
following data:

Size of item Frequency

6 3

7 6

8 9

9 13

10 8

11 5

12 4

6- What is the relation between mean , median and mode of

a) symmetric distributions

b) other distributions
Sampling theorems

1- A coin was tossed 400 times and the head turned up 216 times. Test the
hypothesis that the coin is unbiased at 5% level of significance.

2- A die was thrown 9000 times and a throw of 5or 6 was obtained 3240
times. Do this data indicate a biased die?

3- A die is tossed 960 times and it falls with "5" upwards 184 times. Is the
dice biased?

4- Balls are drawn from a bag containing equal number of black and white
balls, each balls being replaced before drawing another. In 2250 drawings,
1018 black and 1232 white balls have been drawn. Is the drawer biased.

5- A sample of 900 members is found to have a mean of 3.4 cm. Can it be

reasonably regarded as a truly random sample from a large population with
mean 3.25 cm and standard deviation of 1.61 cm?

6- A sample of 400 items is taken from a normal population whose mean is

4 and variance 4. If the sample mean is 4.45, can it be regarded as truly
random sample?