Quiz Discussion

A coin is tossed 5 times. What is the probability that head appears an odd number of times?

• 1]

  1/2

• 2]

  2/3

• 3]

  1/3

• 4]

  1

Find the probability that a leap year selected at random will contain 53 Sundays

• 1]

  2/7

• 2]

  3/7

• 3]

  2/3

• 4]

  5/6

One red flower, three white flowers, and two blue flowers are arranged in a line such that
I. No two adjacent flowers are of the same color.
II. The flowers at the two ends of the line are of different colors.
In how many different ways can the flowers be arranged?

• 1]

  2

• 2]

  4

• 3]

  6

• 4]

  10

A biased coin in tossed thrice. What is the probability that heads turns out at least twice considering that the probability of a head is 60%?

• 1]

  0.648

• 2]

  0.234

• 3]

  0.348

• 4]

  .839

In how many ways can a cricketer can score 200 runs with fours and sixes only?

• 1]

  13

• 2]

  19

• 3]

  16

• 4]

  17

Find the number of ways in which mixed double tennis game can be arranged amongst 9 married couples if no husband and wife play in the same game

• 1]

  1515

• 2]

  1500

• 3]

  1512

• 4]

  1550

If A and B are two independent events with P(A) = 3/5 and P(B) = 4/9 , then P(A' ∩ B' ) equals

• 1]

  4/15

• 2]

  8/45

• 3]

  1/3

• 4]

  2/9

A number lock on a suitcase has 3 wheels each labeled with 10 digits from 0 to 9. If the opening of the lock is a particular sequence of three digits with no repeats, how many such sequences will be possible?

• 1]

  720

• 2]

  760

• 3]

  780

• 4]

  680

Six boys and 4 girls are to be seated in two separate rows with five chairs each, such that two particular girls are always together and all the girls are not in the same row. In how many ways can they be seated?

• 1]

  15 * 7!

• 2]

  20 * 8!

• 3]

  18 * 7!

• 4]

  (16 * 8! – 4! * 6!)

In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In how many different ways can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there?

• 1]

  159

• 2]

  194

• 3]

  205

• 4]

  209