Tutorial 1

1. The content of urns I,II,III are as follows:

1 white, 2 black and 3 red balls
2 white, 1 black and 1 red balls
4 white, 5 black and 3 red balls
One urn is chosen at random and two balls drawn from it. They happen to be white and
red. What is the probability that they come from urns I, II, III?

2. If there is a war every 15 years on the average, then find the probability that there will be
no war in 25 years.
(Ans. Hint: Poisson distribution and ans. Is e-5/3)
3. In a lottery of 50 tickets numbered 1 to 50, two tickets are drawn simultaneously. Find the
probability when :
i. Both the tickets drawn have prime numbers,
ii. None of the tickets drawn has prime number.

4. Two cards are drawn from a deck of 54 playing cards, two of them being jokers. What is
the probability that:
a. They both are spades?
b. They both are kings?
c. At least one of them is a joker?
d. One of them is a queen and the other either a jack or a joker?
5. What are the odds against drawing a face card (king, queen, and jack) from a standard
deck of 52 cards?
6. In a random arrangement of the letters of the word MATHEMATICS, find the
probability that all the vowels come together.

7. The probability that automobile sales will increase next month is 0.40. The probability
that sale of replacement parts will increase next month is 0.50. The probability that both
the industries will experience an increase in sales is estimated to be 0.10. What is the
probability that automobiles sales have increased during the month given that replacement
part sales have increased.

8. Suppose 5 men out of 100 and 25 women out of 10,000 are color blind. A color blind
person is chosen at random. What is the probability of his being male? (Assumes males
and females to be in equal number.)

9. The sides of a rectangle are taken at random each less than a and all lengths are equally
likely. Find the chance that the diagonal is less than a .

10. From a lot of 10 items containing 3 defectives, a sample of 4 items is drawn at random.
Let the random variable X denote the number of defective items in the sample. Answer
the following when the sample is drawn without replacement.