Q. A box consists of 5 yellow, 12 red and 8 blue balls. If 5 balls are drawn from this box one after the other without replacement, find the probability that the 5 balls are all yellow balls.

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Q. Suppose, R is a random real number between 5 and 9. What is the probability R is closer to 5 than it is to 6?

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Q. A ball is thrown at a circular bin such that it will land randomly over the area of the bin. Find the probability that it lands closer to the center than to the edge?

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Q. A programmer has a 95% chance of finding a bug every time she compiles his code, and it takes her three hours to rewrite the code every time she discovers a bug. Find the probability that she will finish her program by the end of her workday. (Assume that a workday is 9 hours)

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Q. A football player has a 45% chance of getting a hit on any given pitch. What is the probability that the player earns a hit ignoring the balls before he strikes out (that requires four strikes)?

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Q. What is variance of a geometric distribution having parameter p=0.72?

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Q. The probability that it rains tomorrow is 0.72. Find the probability that it does not rain tomorrow?

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Q. Suppose a rectangle edges equals i = 4.7 and j = 8.3. Now, a straight line drawn through randomly selected two points K and L in adjacent rectangle edges. Find the condition for the probability such that the drawn triangle area is smaller than c = 9.38.

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Q. Find the expectation for how many bacteria there are per field if there are 2350 bacteria are randomly distributed over 340 fields (all having the same size) next to each other.

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Q. What is the possibility such that the inequality x² + b > ax is true, when a=32.4 and b=76.5 and x∈[0,30].

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Q. In a bucket there are 5 purple, 15 grey and 25 green balls. If the ball is picked up randomly, find the probability that it is neither grey nor purple?

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Q. Two fair coins are flipped. As a result of this, tails and heads runs occurred where a tail run is a consecutive occurrence of at least one head. Determine the probability function of number of tail runs.

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Q. The length of alike metals produced by a hardware store is approximated by a normal distribution model having a mean of 7 cm and a standard deviation of 0.35 cm. Find the probability that the length of a randomly chosen metal is between 5.36 and 6.14 cm?

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Q. A personal computer has the length of time between charges of the battery is normally distributed with a mean of 66 hours and a standard deviation of 20 hours. What is the probability when the length of time will be between 58 and 75 hours?

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Q. The length of life of an instrument produced by a machine has a normal distribution with a mean of 9.4 months and a standard deviation of 3.2 months. What is the probability that an instrument produced by this machine will last between 6 and 11.6 months?

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Q. The speeds of a number of bicycles have a normal distribution model with a mean of 83 km/hr and a standard deviation of 9.4 km/hr. Find the probability that a bicycle picked at random is travelling at more than 95 km/hr?

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Q. Let us say that X is a normally distributed variable with mean(μ) of 43 and standard deviation (σ) of 6.4. Determine the probability of X<32.

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Q. The time taken to assemble a machine in a certain plant is a random variable having a normal distribution of 32 hours and a standard deviation of 3.6 hours. What is the probability that a machine can be assembled at this plant in less than 25.4 hours?

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Q. The scores on an admission test are normally distributed with a mean of 640 and a standard deviation of 105.7. A student wants to be admitted to this university. He takes the test and scores 755. What is the probability of him to be admitted to this university?

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Q. The annual salaries of workers in a large manufacturing factory are normally distributed with a mean of Rs. 48,000 and a standard deviation of Rs. 1500. Find the probability of workers who earn between Rs. 35,000 and Rs. 52,000.

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