Probability Test

Marks 20 Time 30minutes

The standard deviation of binomial distribution depends on
a) Probability of success b) Probability of failure
c) Number of trials d) Both (a) and (c)
Which of the following can never be described by a binomial distribution.
a) The number of defective items produced by an assembly line
b) The amount of water used by a single household
c) The number of students is a class who can answer this question
d) All of these can always be described by a binomial distribution
The parameters of binomial distribution are
a) x and n b) x and p
c) n and p d) x, n and p
Which of the following is true for binomial distribution
a) mean > variance b) mean < variance
c) mean = variance d) mean = standard deviation
The mean, median and mode of the binomial distribution will be equal when
a) p=0.5 b) P<0.5
c) P>0.5 d) None of these
The parameters of hypergeometric distribution are
a) x, N, k b) N, n, k
c) x, n, k d) x, N, n, k
A binomial random variable is a(an)
a) independent variable b) continuous random variable
c) discrete random variable d) none of these
In which distribution the probability of success remains constant from trial to trail
a) hypergeometric distribution b) binomial distribution
c) sampling distribution d) continuous distribution
In which distribution the probability of success changes from trial to trail
a) hypergeometric distribution b) binomial distribution
c) sampling distribution d) continuous distribution
Both binomial and hypergeometric distributions are
a) Continuous distributions b) Discrete distributions
c) None of above d) Bivariate distributions
 A multiple choice examination consists of ten questions and each question is followed by
four choices. A student will pass the exam if he answers five questions correctly.
Assuming that a student knows two correct answers and chooses the remaining answers at
random, what is the probability that he will pass the test?
a) 0.3219 b) 0.3108
c) 0.2672 d) 0.1001
A company owns two machines. Machine A produces red toys whereas machine B
produces blue toys. Defective units produced by machine A and B average 25% and 30%
respectively and their daily production is 20 and 30 units respectively.
If the daily production is mixed and three toys are selected at random, without
replacement, find the probability that the first toy is a defective unit, the second toy
is not defective whereas the third toy is defective and of blue colour.
a) 3.58% b) 1.38%
c) 0.22% d) None of these
The average number of traffic accidents on a certain section of highway is two per week.
Assuming that the number of accidents follows a Poisson distribution, find the probability
of at most 3 accidents on this section of highway during a two week period.
a) 0.432 b) 0123
c) 0.152 d) 0.325
Of the bolts produced by a factory, 2% are defective. In a shipment of 3600 bolts from the
factory, find the expected number of defective bolts and the standard deviation.
a) Mean 72 and SD 8.49 b) Mean 72 and SD 8.40
c) Mean 7.2 and SD 8.4 d) None of these
A section of a tunnel is lit by 2000 electric bulbs which are kept burning day and night.
The manufacturer says that the lives of the bulbs are normally distributed about a mean of
820 hours with standard deviation of 90 hours. How many electric bulbs will be expected
to fail before 1000 hours?
a) 1954 b) 820
c) 1000 d) 1545
Among a department’s 16 trucks, 5 emit excessive amount of smoke. If eight of the trucks
are randomly selected for inspection, what is the probability that this sample will include
at least 4 of the trucks which emit excessive amount of smoke?
a) 0.7838 b) 0.0499
c) 0.2170 d) 0.511

Data for Questions 1.17 to 1.18

A production supervisor finds that employees, on the average, complete a task in ten
minutes. The times required to complete the task are approximately normally distributed
with a standard deviation of three minutes.
 The proportion of employees requiring more than five minutes, completing the
task.

a) 94.25% b) 95.25%
c) 90.25% d) 93.25%
The proportion of employees requiring less than five minutes, completing the task.

a) 4.75% b) 3.75%
c) 4.65% d) 4.95%
The mean number of years of experience of a certain population of sales persons
is 10 years. The standard deviation is 3 years. What is the probability that a
random sample of 81 of these sales persons yields a means greater than 10 years
and 8 months?

a) 0.0222 b) 0.0322
c) 0.0233 d) 0.0333