Question # 1

Form a group of 5 men and 3 women, a committee of 4 persons is to be selected randomly. The probability that there is a majority of men is

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1/4

1/3

1/2

1/6

For a positive integer n

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n! = n(n + 1)

n! = n(n+1)!

n! = n(n - 1 )

n! = n(n - 1)!

The sample space for tossing a coin twice is

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{H, T}

{HH, HT, TH, TT}

{H, T, HH}

{HH, HT, TT}

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

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45

30

25

50

The probability that a person A will be alive 15 years hence is 5/7 and the probability that another person B will be alive 15 years hence is 7/9. Find the probability that both will be alive 15 years hence

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4/63

5/9

45/49

None of these

Number of combination of zero or more things out of n different things

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nPn

nPr

nCr

2n

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A box containing 10 mangoes out of which 4 are rotter. Two mangoes are taken together from the box. If one of them is found to be good, the probability that the other is also good is

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1 / 3

8 / 15

5 / 13

5 / 9

In how many ways can 5 persons be seated at a round table

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5!

4!

3!

120

The domain of an infinite sequence is a

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Set of natural numbers

R

Subset of N

None of the above

A committee consists of 9 experts taken from three institutions A, B, and C, of which 2 are from, A, 3 form B and 4 from C. If three experts resign, then the probability that they belong to different institutions is

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1 / 729

1 / 24

1 / 21

2 / 7

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

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1 / 10

2 / 10

3 / 10

4 / 10

The sum if 1,3,5,7,9........ up to 20 terms is

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400

472

563

264

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

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50

25

10

100

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56

7

8

8/7

Eight chairs are numbered 1 to 8. Two women and three men wish to occupy one chair each. First, the women choose the chairs from amongst the chairs marked 1 to 4 and then the men select the chairs from amongst the remaining. The number of possible arrangement is