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GATE IN 2009
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
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A screening test is carried out to detect a certain disease. It is found that $$12$$% of the positive reports and $$15$$% of the negative reports are incorrect. Assuming that the probability of a person getting positive reports is $$0.01,$$ the probability that a person tested gets an incorrect reports is
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GATE IN 2008
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
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A random variable is uniformly distributed over the interval $$2$$ to $$10.$$ Its variance will be
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GATE IN 2007
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
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Assume that the duration in minutes of a telephone conversation follows the exponential distribution $$\,f\left( x \right) = {1 \over 5}{e^{ - x/5}},\,x \ge 0.\,\,\,$$ The probability that the conversation will exceed five minutes is
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GATE IN 2005
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
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The probability that there are $$53$$ Sundays in a randomly chosen leap year is
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