Elementary Statistics - Probability - General Aptitude (GA) Previous Year Questions

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2014 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2014

In any given year, the probability of an earthquake greater than Magnitude 6 occurring in the Garhwal Himalayas is 0.04. The average time between successive occurrences of such earthquakes is ____ years.

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2014 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2014

10% of the population in a town is HIV⁺. A new diagnostic kit for HIV detection is available. This kit correctly identifies HIV⁺ individuals 95% of the time, and HIV⁻ individuals 89% of the time. A particular patient is tested using this kit and is found to be positive. The probability that the individual is actually positive is ______

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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2015

A product is an assembly of 5 different components. The product can be sequentially assembled in two possible ways. If the 5 components are placed in a box and these are drawn at random from the box, then the probability of getting a correct sequence is

A

\(\frac{2}{5!} \)

B

\(\frac{2}{5} \)

C

\(\frac{2}{(5-2)!} \)

D

\(\frac{2}{(5-3)!} \)

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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2015

For an assembly made of \( n \) components, the dimensions on each component \( i \) follow a normal distribution and have tolerance \( T_i \). Overall dimension of the assembly is \( L_a \) with tolerance \( T_a \). The relationship between \( T_a \) and \( T_i \) is

A

\(T_a = L_a \sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^n T_i^2} \)

B

\(T_a = \sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^n T_i^2} \)

C

\(T_a = \sqrt{L_a \sum_{i=1}^n T_i^2} \)

D

\(T_a = L_a + \sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^n T_i^2} \)

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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2015

Arrival of machines for repair in a maintenance shop follows a Poisson distribution at a rate of one per 18 hours. The time to repair follows an exponential distribution with Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) of 14 hours. If the productivity loss is Rs.22,500 per hour, then the total expected loss of productivity due to machine breakdowns, in Rs., is

A

78,750

B

1,01,250

C

11,81,250

D

14,17,500

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2018 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2018

An unbiased coin is tossed six times in a row and four different such trials are conducted. One trial implies six tosses of the coin. If H stands for head and T stands for tail, the following are the observations from the four trials:
(1) HTHTHT (2) TTHHHT (3) HTTHHT (4) HHHT__ __.
Which statement describing the last two coin tosses of the fourth trial has the highest probability of being correct?

A

Two T will occur.

B

One H and one T will occur.

C

Two H will occur.

D

One H will be followed by one T.

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2022 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2022

A game consists of spinning an arrow around a stationary disk as shown below. When the arrow comes to rest, there are eight equally likely outcomes. It could come to rest in any one of the sectors numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 as shown.
Two such disks are used in a game where their arrows are independently spun.
What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the resulting sectors upon spinning the two disks is equal to 8 after the arrows come to rest?

A

\(\frac{1}{16}\)

B

\(\frac{5}{64}\)

C

\(\frac{3}{32}\)

D

\(\frac{7}{64}\)

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2024 · General Aptitude (GA) · Probability · Elementary Statistics

Production & Industrial Engineering (PI) 2024

The probability of a boy or a girl being born is 1/2. For a family having only three children, what is the probability of having two girls and one boy?

A

3/8

B

1/8

C

1/4

D

1/2

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