Three screws are drawn at random from a lot of 50 screws containing 5 defective ones. Then the probability…

Three screws are drawn at random from a lot of 50 screws containing 5 defective ones. Then the probability of the event that all 3 screws drawn are non-defective, assuming that the drawing is (a) with replacement (b) without replacement respectively is
  1. $\left(\frac{9}{10}\right)^3, \frac{1419}{1960}$
  2. $\left(\frac{9}{10}\right)^2, \frac{1418}{1961}$
  3. $\left(\frac{9}{10}\right)^2, \frac{1419}{1960}$
  4. $\left(\frac{9}{10}\right)^3, \frac{1418}{1961}$

Solution

Given total screws $=50$ defective screws $=5$ and non-defective screws $=45$ Let $\mathrm{A}$ be the event of getting drawing of 3 screws are not defective. (a) with replacement, $P(A)=\left(\frac{{ }^{45} C_1}{{ }^{50} C_1}\right)^3=\left(\frac{9}{10}\right)^3$ (b) without replacement $\begin{aligned} & P(A)=\frac{{ }^{45} C_1}{{ }^{50} C_1} \times \frac{{ }^{44} C_1}{{ }^{49} C_1} \times \frac{{ }^{43} C_1}{{ }^{48} C_1} \\ & =\frac{45}{50} \times \frac{44}{49} \times \frac{43}{48}=\frac{1419}{1960} \end{aligned}$

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2023 (15 May Shift 2)

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