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GATE Engineering Mathematics: Probability and Statistics: Conditional probability – Previous Year Questions

3 GATE previous year questions on Probability and Statistics: Conditional probability (Engineering Mathematics, Electrical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2015 EE Q39 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Two players, A and B, alternately keep rolling a fair dice. The person to get a six first wins the game. Given that player A starts the game, the…
  2. GATE 2016 EE Q36 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Candidates were asked to come to an interview with 3 pens each. Black, blue, green and red were the permitted pen colours that the candidate could…
  3. GATE 2023 EE Q45 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The expected number of trials for first occurrence of a “head” in a biased coin is known to be 4. The probability of first occurrence of a “head” in…