Home
Class 12
MATHS
A bag contains a white and b black balls...

A bag contains `a` white and `b` black balls. Two players, `Aa n dB` alternately draw a ball from the bag, replacing the ball each time after the draw till one of them draws a white ball and wins the game. `A` begins the game. If the probability of `A` winning the game is three times that of `B ,` then find the ratio `a : b`

Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • PROBABILITY

    ARIHANT MATHS|Exercise Example|4 Videos
  • PROBABILITY

    ARIHANT MATHS|Exercise Exercise For Session 1|20 Videos
  • PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS

    ARIHANT MATHS|Exercise Exercise (Questions Asked In Previous 13 Years Exam)|28 Videos
  • PRODUCT OF VECTORS

    ARIHANT MATHS|Exercise Exercise (Questions Asked In Previous 13 Years Exam)|52 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

A and B toss a coin alternately till one of them tosses a head and wins the game. If A starts the game, find their respective probability of winning.

Two persons throw a dice alternately till one of them gets a 'six' and wins the game. Find their respective probabilities of winning.

A and B throw a die alternatively till one of them gets a ‘6’ and wins the game. Find their respective probabilities of winning, if A starts first.

A and B throw a pair of dice alternately, till one of them gets a total of 10 and wins the game. Find their respective probabilities of winning if A starts first.

A bag contains 4 white and 3 black balls. Two balls are drawn at random. Find the probability that they are of the same colour.

A bag contains 8 red, 3 white and 9 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag. Determine the probability that none of the balls is white .

A bag contains 6 red, 5 white and 4 black balls. Two balls are drawn. Find the probability that none of them is red.

ARIHANT MATHS-PROBABILITY-Exercise (Questions Asked In Previous 13 Years Exam)
  1. A bag contains a white and b black balls. Two players, Aa n dB alterna...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. find the derivative of sin x cos x

    Text Solution

    |

  3. A six-faced fair dice is shown until 1 comes. Then the probability tha...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. Let A and B be two events such that Poverline((AcupB))=(1)/(6),P(AcapB...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. Three houses are available in a locality . Three persons apply for th...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. A randam variable X has Poisson's distribution with mean 2. Then , P(X...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. There are n urns each containing (n+1) balls such that ith urn contain...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. In a telephone enquiry system, the number of phone calls regarding rel...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. Indian and four American men and their wives are to be seated randomly...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. Let H1, H2,..., Hn be mutually exclusive events with P (Hi) > 0, i = ...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. Let E^c denote the complement of an event E. Let E,F,G be pairwise ind...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. A pair of four dice is thrown independently three times. The probabili...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Two aeroplanes I and II bomb a target in succession. The probabilitie...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. An experiment has 10 equally likely outcomes. Let A and B be two non-e...

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Evluate int (cosx+x) dx

    Text Solution

    |

  16. A die is thrown. Let A be the event that the number obtained is grea...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. It is given that the events A and B are such that P(A)=1/4, P(A/B)=1/2...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. A fair die is tossed repeatedly until a 6 is obtained. Let X denote th...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. A fair die is tossed repeatedly until a 6 is obtained. Let X denote th...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. A fair die is tossed repeatedly until a 6 is obtained. Let X denote th...

    Text Solution

    |

  21. In a binomial distribution B (n, p=(1)/(4)), if the probability of at...

    Text Solution

    |