Probability · JEE Advanced previous year questions

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2024 2 questions

Q22024 · 26 May 2024 · Paper 1
A student appears for a quiz consisting of only true-false type questions and answers all the questions. The student knows the answers of some questions and guesses the answers for the remaining questions. Whenever the student knows the answer of a question, he gives the correct answer. Assume that the probability of the student giving the correct answer for a question, given that he has guessed it, is $\frac{1}{2}$ . Also assume that the probability of the answer for a question being guessed, given that the student's answer is correct, is $\frac{1}{6}$ . Then the probability that the student knows the answer of a randomly chosen question is
1. A. $\frac{1}{12}$
2. B. $\frac{1}{7}$
3. C. $\frac{5}{7}$
4. D. $\frac{5}{12}$
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Answer: C
Q92024 · 26 May 2024 · Paper 2· Numerical answer
A bag contains $N$ balls out of which 3 balls are white, 6 balls are green, and the remaining balls are blue. Assume that the balls are identical otherwise. Three balls are drawn randomly one after the other without replacement. For $i = 1, 2, 3$ , let $W_{i}, G_{i}$ , and $B_{i}$ denote the events that the ball drawn in the $i^{th}$ draw is a white ball, green ball, and blue ball, respectively. If the probability $P (W_{1} \cap G_{2} \cap B_{3}) = \frac{2}{5 N}$ and the conditional probability $P (B_{3} ∣ W_{1} \cap G_{2}) = \frac{2}{9}$ , then $N$ equals ____.
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Answer: 11