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On a commodity exchange when booking trades with provision for stop-losses, a trader can make a profit of Rs 20,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 20,000 or incur a loss of Rs 20,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 20,000. The probabilities of making profit and incurring loss, from the past experience, are known to be 0.75\displaystyle 0.75 and 0.25\displaystyle 0.25 respectively. The expected profit to be made by trader should be

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ARs 32,500\displaystyle \text{Rs } 32,500
BRs 35,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 35,000
CRs 30,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 30,000
DRs 40,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 40,000
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Option aRs 32,500\displaystyle \text{Rs } 32,500

All Options:

  • ARs 32,500\displaystyle \text{Rs } 32,500
  • BRs 35,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 35,000
  • CRs 30,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 30,000
  • DRs 40,000\displaystyle \text{Rs } 40,000

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Paper 3: Quantitative Aptitude

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Probability Operations, Expected Value

A logic-heavy chapter dealing with random experiments, events (mutually exclusive, exhaustive), set theory probability, conditional probability, and Bayes' Theorem. It forms the basis for Theoretical Distributions.

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