ECAT Pre Engineering MCQ Test With Answer for Chapter 9 Mathematics

The key for opening a door is in a bunch of 10 keys. A man attempts to open the door by trying the keys at random discarding the wrong key. The probability that the door is opened in the 5th trial is

• 1 / 10 A
• 2 / 10 B
• 3 / 10 C
• 4 / 10 D

A die is thrown 100 times. If getting an odd number is considered a success, the variance of the number of successes is

• 50 A
• 25 B
• 10 C
• 100 D

A combination lock on a suitcase has 3 wheels each labeled with nine digits from 1 to 9. If an opening combination is a particular sequence of three digits with no repeats, the probability of a person guessing the right combination is

• 1 / 500 A
• 1 / 504 B
• 1 / 252 C
• 1 / 250 D

The number of the diagonals of a 6 sided figure is

• 15 A
• 21 B
• 9 C
• 6 D

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The number of combinations of 10 different objects taken 8 objects at a time is

• 90 A
• 45 B
• 55 C
• 50 D

Number of ways of writing the letters of WORD taken all at a time is

• 24 A
• 4 B
• 12 C
• 6 D

• 1 / 2 A
• 1 / 3 B
• 1 / 4 C
• None of these D

9. 8. 7. 6= ______

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The probability to get an odd number in a dice thrown once is

• 1/2 A
• 1/6 B
• 1/3 C
• 2 D

The sample space for tossing a coin once is

• {T, T} A
• {H, H} B
• {H, T} C
• None of these D

Cycle tyres are supplied in lots of 10 and there is a chance if 1 in 500 tyres to be defective. Using Poisson distribution, the approximate number of lots containing no defective tyre in a consignment of 10, 0000 lots is

• 9028 A
• 9208 B
• 9802 C
• 9820 D

n(n - 1) (n - 2) in factorial form is

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The number of significant numbers which can be formed by using any number of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 but using each not more than once in each number is

• 260 A
• 356 B
• 410 C
• 96 D

Four cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 playing cards. The probability of getting all the four cars of the same suit is

• 44/4165 A
• 22/4165 B
• 11/4165 C
• None of these D

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In a country 55% of the male population has houses in cities while 30% have houses both in cities and in villages find the percentage of the population that has houses only in villages

• 45 A
• 30 B
• 25 C
• 50 D

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A coin is tossed. If head comes up, a die is thrown but if tail comes up, the coin is tossed again. The probability of obtaining a head and an even number is

• 1/8 A
• 2/8 B
• 3/8 C
• None of these D

An integer is chosen at random from the number ranging from 1 to 50. the probability that the integer chosen is a multiple of 2 or 3 or 10 is

• 3 / 10 A
• 5 / 10 B
• 7 / 10 C
• 9 / 10 D

An experiment yields 3 mutually exclusive and exhaustive events A, B, C, if P(A) =2 and P(B) = 3. then P(C) =

• 1 / 11 A
• 2 / 11 B
• 3 / 11 C
• 6 / 11 D

Five engineering, four mathematics, two chemistry books are placed on a table at random.The probability that the books of each kind are all together is

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Given two independent event A and B such that P(A) = 0.30 and P(B) = 0.60. Probability of getting neither A nor B is

• 0.28 A
• 0.13 B
• 0.12 C
• 0.42 D

Three dice are thrown together. The probability of getting a total of at least 6 is

• 103 / 108 A
• 10 / 216 B
• 93 / 108 C
• None of these D

Probability of an impossible event is

• 0 A
• -1 B
• 1 C
• ∞ D

A bag contains 3 white, 4 black and 2 red balls. If 2 balls are drawn at random, then the probability that both the ball are white is

• 1/18 A
• 1/12 B
• 1/36 C
• None of these D

The probability that a slip of number divisible by 4 is picked from the slips bearing numbers 1, 2, 3, ...10 is

• 1/5 A
• 1/4 B
• 1/3 C
• 1/2 D

When a selection of object is made without paying regard to the order of selection, it is called

• Sequence A
• Series B
• Combination C
• Permutation D

Two unbiased dice are thrown. The probability that the total score is > 5 is

• 1 / 18 A
• 7 / 18 B
• 13 / 18 C
• 11 / 18 D