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    Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Distribution - Practice Questions & MCQ

    Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #JEE Main

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    • Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Distribution is considered one the most difficult concept.

    • 65 Questions around this concept.

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    A multiple-choice examination has 5 questions. Each question has three alternative answers of which exactly one is correct.The probability that a student will get 4 or more correct answers just by guessing is:

    Consider 5 independent Bernoulli's trials each with probability of success p . If the probability of at least one failure is greater than or equal to \frac{31}{32} , then p lies in the interval

    An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. The probability of at least 5 successes in the six trials of this experiment is:

    Find P ( X = 3 ) for n = 7 , p = 1/3 , q = 2/3 in a Bernoulli trial 

    What is the probability of getting 3 tails in 7 trials of throwing an unbiased coin ?

    A and B toss a fair coin 50 times each simultaneously. What is the probability that both of them will not get tails at the same toss?

    The probability that a person is not a swimmer is 0.3. The probability that out of 5 persons 4 are swimmers is
     

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    Which one is not a requirement of a binomial distribution?

    The random variable X follows binomial distribution $\mathrm{B}(\mathrm{n}, \mathrm{p})$, for which the difference of the mean and the variance is 1 . If $2 \mathrm{P}(x=2)=3 \mathrm{P}(x=1)$, then $n^2 P(X>1)$ is equal to

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    Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Distribution

    Trials of a random experiment are called Bernoulli trials, if they satisfy the following conditions 

    There are a fixed number of trials. Think of trials as repetitions of an experiment. The letter n denotes the number of trials.

    The n trials are independent and are repeated using identical conditions. 

    There are only two possible outcomes, called "success" and "failure," for each trial. The letter p denotes the probability of a success on any one trial, and q denotes the probability of a failure on any one trial. p + q = 1

    For example, randomly guessing at a truefalse statistics question has only two outcomes. If a success is guessing correctly, then a failure is guessing incorrectly. Suppose Joe always guesses correctly on any statistics truefalse question with a probability p = 0.6. Then, q = 0.4. This means that for every truefalse statistics question Joe answers, his probability of success (p = 0.6) and his probability of failure (q = 0.4) remain the same. So guessing one question is considered a trial. If he guesses n different questions, means the trial is repeated n times and p = 0.6 remains the same for each trial.

    Binomial Distribution

    $
    \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X}=\mathrm{r})={ }^{\mathrm{n}} \mathrm{C}_{\mathrm{r}} \mathrm{p}^{\mathrm{r}} \cdot \mathrm{q}^{\mathrm{n}\mathrm{r}}
    $
    Where $P(X=r)$ is the probability of $X$ successes in $n$ trials when the probability of success in ANY ONE TRIAL is $p$. And of course $q=(1p)$ and is the probability of a failure in any one trial.

    In the experiment, the probability of
    At least "r" successes,

    $
    \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X} \geq \mathrm{r})=\sum_{\lambda=\mathrm{r}}^{\mathrm{n}} \mathrm{n}_\lambda \mathrm{p}^\lambda \cdot \mathrm{q}^{\mathrm{n}\lambda}
    $

    At most " $r$ " successes,

    $
    \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X} \leq \mathrm{r})=\sum_{\lambda=0}^{\mathrm{r}}{ }^{\mathrm{n}} \mathrm{C}_\lambda \mathrm{P}^\lambda \cdot \mathrm{q}^{\mathrm{n}\lambda}
    $
    A binomial distribution with $n$Bernoulli trials and probability of success in each trial as $p$, is denoted by $B(n, p)$.
    The mean, $\mu$, and variance, $\sigma^2$, for the binomial probability distribution are

    $
    \mu=n p \quad \text { and } \quad \sigma^2=n p q
    $
    The standard deviation, $\sigma$, is then

    $
    \sigma=\sqrt{n p q}
    $


     

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