Sunday, June 17, 2007

GRE QUESTION ON DEMAND

An experiment has three possible outcomes, l, J, and
K. The probabilities of the outcomes are 0.25, 0.35,
and 0.40, respectively. If the experiment is to be
performed twice and the successive outcomes are
independent, what is the probability that K will not
be an outcome either time?
(A) 0.36
(B) 0.40
(C) 0.60
(D) 0.64
(E) 0.80

BY-- AJAY KUMAR SINGH from DELHI

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

a

Anonymous said...

a

Anonymous said...

C

Manisha Reddy said...

need's an explanation

Unknown said...

please can yu post answers also..

Anonymous said...

(1-.4)(1-.4) = .36 A

Anonymous said...

(1-,4)(1-,4)= .36 so A is correct answer

sunny said...

hERE THE EVENTS ARE INDEPENDENT SO WE NEED TO DO ADDITION .
THE PROBBILITY OF NOT GETTING K IS PROBABILITY OF GETTING I and j which is respectively 0.25 and 0.25. so for both the time the probability fo getting i and j is
2(0.25)+2(0.35)=0.50+0.70+1.20/2=0.60.