Probability Practice Questions

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Probability Practice Questions

Part A

Q1: In a throw of a coin, the probability of getting a head is?

A) 1            B) 1/2                 C) 1/4                    D) 2

Q2: Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most one head?

A) 2/3       B) 1/2             C) 3/4             D) 4/3

Q3: An unbiased die is tossed. Find the probability of getting a multiple of 3.

A) 1/4            B) 1/3               C) 1/2           D) 1

Q4: In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability of getting a total more than 7.

A) 3/2           B) 4/7            C) 5/12           D) 6/13

Q5: A bag contains 6 white and 4 black balls. two balls are drawn at random. Find the probability that they are of the same color.

A) 3/4         B) 5/3           C) 7/15             D) 8/17

Q6: Two dice are thrown together. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is divisible by 4 or 6?

A) 13/14         B) 5/3           C) 7/16             D) 7/18

Q7: Two cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that either both are black or both are queens?

A) 5/21       B) 55/221              C) 555/2221          D) 5555/22221

Q8: A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white marbles. Three marbles are drawn at random. What is the probability that they are not of the same color?           [Bank P.O. 2000]

A) 3/44          B) 3/55           C) 52/55           D) 41/44

Q9: A bag contains 4 white, 5 red, and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag. The probability that all of them are red is:      [M.B.A. 2002]

A) 1/22           B) 3/22        C) 2/91             D) 2/77

Find Your Answers Here

Q1: B), Q2: C), Q3: B), Q4: C), Q5: C), Q6: D), Q7: B), Q8: D), Q9: C)

Part B

Q1: A bag contains 2 red, 3 green, and 2 blue balls. two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?             [Bank PO 2003]

A) 10/21          B) 11/21         C) 2/7           D) 5/7

Q2: A bag contains 6 white and 4 red balls. Three balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that one ball is red and the other two are white?

A) 1/2            B) 1/12          C) 3/10            D) 7/12

Q3: In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue, and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?            [Bank P.O. 2002]

A) 2/3          B) 3/4             C) 7/19           D) 8/21          E) 9/21

Q4: A box contains 10 black and 10 white balls. The probability of drawing two balls of the same color is:

A) 9/19         B) 9/38           C) 10/19          D) 5/19

Q5: A box contains 4 red balls, 5 green balls, and 6 white balls. A ball is drawn at random from the box. What is the probability that the ball is drawn is either red or green?

A) 2/5       B0 3/5         C) 1/5          D) 7/15

Q6: In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected, is:

A) 21/46               B) 25/117            C) 1/50             D) 3/25

Q7: Four persons are chosen at random from a group of 3 men, 2 women, and 4 children. The chance that exactly 2 of them are children, is:

A) 1/9               B) 1/5            C) 1/12              D) 10/21

Find Your Answers Here

Q1: A), Q2: A), Q3: D), Q4: A), Q5: B), Q6: A), Q7: D)

Part C

Q1: A box contains 20 electric bulbs, out of which 4 are defective. Two bulbs are chosen at random from this box. the probability that at least one of these is defective is:

A) 4/19          B) 7/19         C) 12/19        D) 21/95

Q2: In a class, 30% of the students offered English, 20% offered Hindi and 10% offered both. If a student is selected at random, what is the probability that he has offered English or Hindi?

A) 2/5            B) 3/4                  C) 3/5                  D) 3/10

Q3: Two dice are tossed. the probability that a total score is a prime number is:

A) 1/6          B) 5/12            C) 1/2              D) 7/9

Q4: A speaks the truth in 75% of cases and B in 80% of the cases. In what percentage of cases are they likely to contradict each other, narrating the same incident?    [Bank PO 2000]

A) 5%            B) 15%           C) 35%           D) 45%

Q5: A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of husband’s selection is (1/7) and the probability of wife’s selection is (1/5). What is the probability that only one of them is selected?

A) 4/5          B) 2/7               C) 8/15            D) 4/7

Q6: From a pack of 52 cards, one card is drawn at random. What is the probability that the card drawn is a ten or a spade?

A) 4/13            B) 1/4         C) 1/13         D) 1/26

Q7: The probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 cards will be a diamond or a king is:

A) 2/13          B) 4/13      C) 1/13            D) 1/52

Q8: From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of both the cards being kings?        [M.B.A. 2002, Railways, 2002]

A) 1/15           B) 25/57            C) 35/256            D) 1/221

Q9: Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is spade and one is a heart is:            [MBA 2000]

A) 3/20          B) 29/34            C) 47/100       D) 13/102

Find Your Answers Here

Q1: B), Q2: A), Q3: B), Q4: C), Q5: B), Q6: A), Q7: B), Q8: D), Q9: D)