1) Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random.

What is the
probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
1
A.
2

2
B.
5

8
C.
15

9
D.
20
2) 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?
10
A.
21

11
B.
21

2
C.
7

5
D.
7
3) 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?
1
A.
3

3
B.
4

7
C.
19

8
D.
21

9
E.
21
4.  What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?
A 1
. 6

B 1
. 8

C 1
. 9

D 1
. 12
5.  Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two heads?
 A 3
. 4

B 1
. 4

C 3
. 8

D 7
. 8
6.  Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose
product is even?
A 1
. 2

B 3
. 4

C 3
. 8

D 5
. 16
7.  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
8.  In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the
probability of getting a prize?
A 1
. 10

B 2
. 5

C 2
. 7

D 5
. 7
9.  From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of
both the cards being kings?
A 1
. 15
 B 25
. 57

C 35
. 256

D 1
. 221
10.  Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:
A 1
. 6

B 5
. 12

C 1
. 2

D 7
. 9
11.  A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of club or a king of
heart is:
A 1
. 13

B 2
. 13

C 1
. 26

D 1
. 52
12.  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:
A 1
. 22

B 3
. 22

C 2
. 91

D 2
. 77
13.  Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and
one is a heart, is:
A 3
. 20

B 29
. 34
 C 47
. 100

D 13
. 102
14.  One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card
drawn is a face card (Jack, Queen and King only)?
A 1
. 13

B 3
. 13

C 1
. 4

D 9
. 52
15.  A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability
that the ball drawn is white?
A 3
. 4

B 4
. 7

C 1
. 8

D 3
. 7

Ans:
1) Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Here, S = {1, 2, 3, 4, ...., 19, 20}.
Let E = event of getting a multiple of 3 or 5 = {3, 6 , 9, 12, 15, 18, 5, 10, 20}.
 n(E) 9
 P(E) = = .
n(S) 20

2) Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Total number of balls = (2 + 3 + 2) = 7.
Let S be the sample space.
Then, n(S) = Number of ways of drawing 2 balls out of 7

= 7C2 `

(7 x 6)
=
(2 x 1)

= 21.

Let E = Event of drawing 2 balls, none of which is blue.

 n(E) = Number of ways of drawing 2 balls out of (2 + 3) balls.

= 5C2

(5 x 4)
=
(2 x 1)

= 10.

n(E) 10
 P(E) = = .
n(S) 21

3) Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Total number of balls = (8 + 7 + 6) = 21.
= event that the ball drawn is neither red nor
Let E
green

= event that the ball drawn is blue.

 n(E) = 7.
n(E) 7 1
 P(E) = = = .
n(S) 21 3

4) Answer: Option C
Explanation:
In two throws of a dice, n(S) = (6 x 6) = 36.
Let E = event of getting a sum ={(3, 6), (4, 5), (5, 4), (6, 3)}.
n(E) 4 1
 P(E) = = = .
n(S) 36 9

5) Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Here S = {TTT, TTH, THT, HTT, THH, HTH, HHT, HHH}
Let E = event of getting at most two heads.
Then E = {TTT, TTH, THT, HTT, THH, HTH, HHT}.
n(E) 7
 P(E) = = .
n(S) 8

6) Answer: Option B
Explanation:
In a simultaneous throw of two dice, we have n(S) = (6 x 6) = 36.
Then, = {(1, 2), (1, 4), (1, 6), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), (3, 2), (3, 4),
E      (3, 6), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (5, 2), (5, 4), (5, 6), (6, 1),
     (6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6)}

 n(E) = 27.
n(E) 27 3
 P(E) = = = .
n(S) 36 4

7) Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Let S be the sample space and E be the event of selecting 1 girl and 2 boys.
Then, n(S) = Number ways of selecting 3 students out of 25

= 25C3 `

(25 x 24 x
= 23)
(3 x 2 x 1)

= 2300.

n(E
= (10C1 x 15C2)
)

(15 x 14)
= 10 x
(2 x 1)

= 1050.

n(E) 1050 21
 P(E) = = = .
n(S) 2300 46

8) Answer: Option C
Explanation:
P (getting a prize) 10 10 2
= = .
= (10 + 25) 35 7

9) Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Let S be the sample space.
Then, n(S) = 52C2 = (52 x 51) = 1326.
 (2 x 1)
Let E = event of getting 2 kings out of 4.
(4 x
3)
 n(E) = 4C2 = = 6.
(2 x
1)
n(E) 6 1
 P(E) = n(S) = 132 = 221.
6

10) Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Clearly, n(S) = (6 x 6) = 36.
Let E = Event that the sum is a prime number.
Then E = { (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 4), (1, 6), (2, 1), (2, 3), (2, 5), (3, 2), (3, 4), (4, 1), (4,
3),
      (5, 2), (5, 6), (6, 1), (6, 5) }

 n(E) = 15.
n(E 1
) 5 5
 P(E) = = = .
n(S 3 1
) 6 2

11) Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Here, n(S) = 52.
Let E = event of getting a queen of club or a king of heart.
Then, n(E) = 2.
n(E
) 2 1
 P(E) = = = .
n(S 5 2
) 2 6

12) Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Let S be the sample space.
Then, n(S) = number of ways of drawing 3 balls out of 15

= 15C3

(15 x 14 x
= 13)
(3 x 2 x 1)

= 455.

Let E = event of getting all the 3 red balls.

 (5 x
4)
 n(E) = 5C3 = 5C2 = = 10.
(2 x
1)
n(E
) 10 2
 P(E) = = = .
n(S 455 91
)

13) Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Let S be the sample space.
(52 x 51)
Then, n(S) = 52C2 = = 1326.
(2 x 1)
Let E = event of getting 1 spade and 1 heart.
= number of ways of choosing 1 spade out of 13 and 1 heart out of
 n(E)
13

= (13C1 x 13C1)

= (13 x 13)

= 169.

n(E) 169 13
 P(E) = n(S) = 132 = 102.
6

14) Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Clearly, there are 52 cards, out of which there are 12 face cards.
12 3
 P (getting a face card) = 52 = 1 .
3

15) Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Let number of balls = (6 + 8) = 14.
Number of white balls = 8.
8 4
P (drawing a white ball)
1 = 7.
=
4
Questions

General Probability

1, Given two fair dices, what is the probability that two dices sum to 8? What is the probability that two
dices sum to 8 when the first dice is 3?

2, Person A and Person B are playing archery together. Assume their abilities to fire the arrow at the
target are exactly the same, and the probability of getting the target is 0.5 for both of them. Now that
given A has fired 201 arrows and B has fired 200 arrows, what is the probability that A gets more targets
than B?

3, During flu season, for a two-parent heterosexual family, suppose the probability that at least one
parent has the flu is 17%; the probability that the father has the flu is 12%; the probability that both the
parents have the flu is 6%, what is the probability that the mother has flu?

4, You have 40 cards in four colors, 10 reds, 10 greens, 10 blues, and ten yellows. Each color has a
number from 1 to 10. When you pick two cards without replacement, what is the probability that the
two cards are not in the same color and not in the same number?

Binomial Distribution

5, Team A and B are playing a game that they have to win 4 out of 7 rounds to win the game. The
probability of A wins is p, then the probability of B wins is 1-p (no chance of a tie), what is the probability
that they will play all seven rounds? What if the probability of A wins is different in the home field (p)
and in the visiting field (q)?

6, Eight people enter an elevator in a building with ten floors. What is the expected number of stopping?
What assumptions do you need to calculate this expectation?

Conditional Probability

7, A person flips an unbiased coin over and over again. Player A looks for the sequence HHT and player B
looks for the sequence HTT. What is the probability that player A encounters their sequence first?

8, (Part A): Mr. Jones has two children. The older child is a girl. What is the probability that both children
are girls? (Part B): Mr. Smith has two children. At least one of them is a boy. What is the probability that
both children are boys?
9, You are given a choice of three doors by an Angel. You can choose only one of the doors among the
three. Out of these three doors, two contain nothing and one has a jackpot. After you choose one of the
doors, the angel reveals one of the other two doors behind which there is nothing. The angel gives you
an opportunity to change the door or you can stick with your chosen door. You don’t know behind which
door we have nothing. Should you switch or does it not matter?

Bayesian Probability

10, There are four boxes: A, B, C, D. John put a ball randomly in one of the four boxes and let David
guess which box he put the ball. David guessed that the ball is in box A, but he was not sure. John gives
him a hint that the ball is not in box B. At this time, what is the probability that the ball is in box C?

11, 50% of all people who receive a first interview receive a second interview; 95% of your friends that
got a second interview felt they had a good first interview; 75% of your friends that DID NOT get a
second interview felt they had a good first interview. If you feel that you had a good first interview, what
is the probability you will receive a second interview? (Q16 from this article)

12, Suppose that in the world exist a very rare disease. The chance for anyone to have this disease is
0.1%. You want to know whether you are infected so you go take a test, and the test results come
positive. The accuracy of the test is 99%, meaning that 99% of the people who have the disease will test
positive, and 99% of the people who do not have the disease will test negative (Many thanks to

Xavier Lavenir

for correcting the assumptions in the question). What is the chance that you are actually infected?
(Thanks to

Dennis Meisner

, for catching the error of misinterpretation here)

Answers
1, There are 36 (6*6) outcomes for tossing two fair dices, and the outcomes when two dices sum to 8
are:

(2, 6), (3,5), (4,4), (5,3), (6,2);

The probability of two dices sum to 8 is 5/36.

For the second part, it is a conditional probability that we are calculating. Assume event A is two dices
sum to 8, and event B is the first dice is 3. We know that event B’s outcomes are:

(3,1), (3,2), (3,3), (3,4), (3,5), (3,6)

and only (3,5) makes event A happen, thus the probability is 1/6.

We can also solve this using Bayes Theorem and conditional probability:

The difference between P(AB) and P(A|B) is that:

P(AB) is 1/36: out of 36 outcomes, only (3,5) both satisfy event A and event B;

P(A|B) is 1/6: out of 6 outcomes from event B, (3,1), (3,2), (3,3), (3,4), (3,5), (3,6), only one outcome
sums to 8 at (3,5), so that P(A|B) is 1/6. (also can be calculated by 1/36 / 1/6 = 1/6)

2, 201 is not an even number so that let's consider 200 games first. Assume event A is A fires more
arrows on target than B in 200 games, and event B is B fires more arrows on target, and C is that they
fire equal amount of arrows on targets. We have:
Since A and B perform equally at archery, for 200 games, we have P(A) = P(B). Thus:

Now move to the extra game that person A plays. If in the last 200 games:

A is higher than B, then no matter A fires on target or not for this extra game, A is still higher than B.

If A is lower than B, even if A fires on target for the extra game, we would observe the most A=B, and A
will still not be over B.

If A=B, if A fires on target for the extra game, then A will be higher than B, and the probability that A
shoot on target for any game is 0.5.

Thus, the total probability that A is higher than B is:

We know that 2P(A) + P(C) = 1, if we divide 2 on both sides, we will have:

The probability that A gets more targets than B when A plays 201 games and B plays 200 games is 0.5.

3, Suppose the probability that the father has flu is P(F), and for mother is P(M). We know:

according to the general addition rule of probability:

Thus P(M)=11%.

4, We can first calculate the probability of getting two cards with the same number and the probability
of getting two cards with the same color, then use one minus the sum of the two probabilities.

The probability of getting two cards with the same number is:

You can get any number at the first draw, and it doesn't matter. Thus the first draw doesn't affect the
probability, but for the second draw, you only have 39 cards left, and you need to pick the same number
as the first draw. For each number, there are four cards with the same number in different colors. Thus
for the second draw, you can only pick 3 out of 39 cards.

Same logic for getting two cards with the same color:

We pick any color in the first draw and can only choose 9 cards in the same color out of the 39 left-over
cards. The probability of not getting the same number AND same card is:

P = 1-P(Same Number)-P(Same Color) = 27/39

5, If two teams play all 7 rounds, then for the first 6 rounds, both A and B have to win exactly 3 times,
and we don’t care who wins at the last round. We can consider each round as a Bernoulli trial, then the
number of times A wins in the first 6 games follows a binomial distribution Bi(n,k,p) with n=6, k=3, and
p=p, the probability of A wins. According to the Binomial distribution, the probability of A wins 3 times
out of 6 games is:
Note that team A wins 3 times automatically set team B to win 3 times.

If the two teams have different winning rates playing at home and playing away, we can assume Team
A’s probability of winning at home is p, away is q, and Team A had won x games at home. The
probability of both teams play all 7 rounds will be a function of x, p, and q. Specifically, we know both
team A and B have to win 3 rounds, then Team A has to win x games at home, and win 3-x games away;
Team B has to win 3-x games away (Team A’s home is Team B’s visit site, Team B wins aways when A
loses at home), and win x rounds at home. The probability of playing seven rounds is:

If we have more information about the distribution of x, we can get more information about the
probability.

To know more about the binomial distribution, please check out this article.

6, If we treat each passenger’s decision about whether to stop at a certain floor as a Bernoulli trial, we
could approach this question using the binomial distribution. The assumptions include:

8 passengers make independent decisions;

Assume everyone enters at the ground floor, and there are 10 choices, from 1 to 10 floors. (if you
assume no one stops at the first floor, then there are only 9 choices).

There are eight passengers in total, for each floor, if anyone wants to get off, the elevator will stop.
Rather than calculating the probability of the elevator stops at a certain floor, we can calculate the
probability of not stopping. For any floor, the probability that the elevator does not stop at any floor is:

the probability of the elevator stops at any floor is:

To find the expected number of stopping in this case, define a random variable X as the number of
stopping for the elevator, X follows the binomial distribution:

Where n=10, p=1-(9/10)⁸. The expected value of the binomial distributed random variable is np:

7, The coin is unbiased so that P(H) = P(T) =0.5. Let’s assume the event that we get HHT earlier than HTT
is event E, and we have:

P(E) = P(E|H)*P(H) + P(E|T)*P(T)

Where P(E|H) is getting H at the first toss. Since getting a Tail will help neither getting HHT nor HTT,
thus:

P(E) = P(E|T) = P(E|TT)=…

plug back to the previous equation:

P(E) = 0.5 * P(E|H) + 0.5 * P(E) => P(E) = P(E|H)

so we only need to get P(E|H) to solve for P(E):

P(E|H) = P(E|HH)*P(H) + P(E|HT)*P(T)

Whenever you get HH, you will definitely get HHT earlier than HTT since you only need to get one extra
T to reach HHT, but you need to get two extra Ts to get to HTT. Thus P(E|HH) is 1:

P(E|H) = 1*0.5 + P(E|HT)*0.5

For the same logic:

P(E|HT) = P(E|HTH)*P(H) + P(E|HTT)*P(T)

P(E|HTT) =0 because we already reach HTT first. When seeing HTH, the first two tosses are ignorable, it
is like rolling the first H. Thus:

P(E|HTH) = P(E|H)

Now we have:

P(E|HT) = P(E|HTH)*P(H) + P(E|HTT)*P(T)=P(E|H)*0.5+0

Plug back to the previous equation:

P(E|H) = 1*0.5 + P(E|HT)*0.5=0.5+P(E|H)*0.5*0.5 => P(E|H)= 2/3

P(E) = P(E|H) =2/3

8, For a family with two children, there are four possibilities for the gender combination:

four possibilities

Part A: If we know the older child is a girl, then there are only two possibilities:

two possibilities

and one of them is having two girls. The probability is 1/2;

Part B: for at least one child is a boy, we have three possibilities:

three possibilities

and one of them is having two boys. The probability is 1/3.

For practice, you can try to solve this problem with conditional probability.

9, We have three doors, door 1, door 2, and door 3. Each of them has 1/3 of the chance to have the
Jackpot behind. We need to decide to switch or not based on whether we have selected correctly in the
first place, and compare the probability of switching and not switching. Suppose event A is selecting
correctly at the first try:

P(A) = 1/3; P(not A)=2/3;

Let event B be winning after switching:

P(B|A) = 0: if you selected correctly at the first try(event A), and you switch, you will not win anymore;

P(B|not A) = 1: if you selected wrongly at the first try (event not A) after the angel removes another
wrong door, you will definitely win after switching.

Thus:

P(B) = P(B|A)*P(A) + P(B|not A)*P(not A) = 2/3.

Let event Not B be winning when not switching:

P(Not B|A) = 1: if you selected correctly at the first try(event A), and you switch, you will win the
Jackpot;

P(Not B|not A) = 0: if you selected wrongly at the first try(event not A), you will lose if you choose to not
switch.

Thus:

P(Not B) = P(Not B|A)*P(A) + P(Not B|not A)*P(not A) = 1/3.

Comparing the chance of winning when switching and not switching:

P(B) > P(Not B)

You should switch!

10, After John gave the hint, there are three situations:

S1: A=1, B=0, C=0, D=0;

S2: A=0, B=0, C=1, D=0;

S3: A=0, B=0, C=0, D=1;

Define the event that John says the ball is not in box B as event B. We need to calculate the conditional
probability of P(S2|B). According to Bayes Theorem:

Let’s check the elements individually:

P(S2) is the probability that John puts the ball in box C out of the four boxes. The probability should be
the same as if he puts the ball in any box. Thus:

P(B|S2) is the conditional probability that when John puts the ball in box C, he gives the hint that the ball
is not in box B when David already chose box A. After David chose A, there are only three boxes left for
John to rule out, which are B, C, D. Given that the ball is actually in box C, John can only help David rule
out B or D by giving him the hint. The probability of him choosing B out of the two boxes (B, D) is 1/2:

According to Bayes Formula:

We know that P(B|S2) is 1/2, we can use the same logic to get P(B|S1) and P(B|S3). When the ball is in
box A(S1), David already got the right answer. John has three choices to give the hint: not in B, not in C,
and not in D. Thus P(B|S1) is 1/3. P(B|S3) is 1/2 as John can say not in B or not in C. Combining all the
information together, we will have:

Thus, we have:

Takeaway: If John doesn't give any hint, we know the probability that the ball is in box C is 1/4. John
giving the hint increases the probability of ball in box C because we are updating probability with new
information, and that is the key of Bayes' theorem.
11, The key to solving problems like this is to define the events carefully. Suppose your friends are a
good representation of the entire population:

Let’s define feel good about the first interview as event A and define receive the second interview event
B;

“50% of all people who receive a first interview receive a second interview” means that P(B)=0.5, thus
P(not B) is one minus P(B), which is 0.5 as well;

“95% of your friends that got a second interview felt they had a good first interview” means P(A|B)
=0.95;

“75% of your friends that DID NOT get a second interview felt they had a good first interview” means
P(A|not B) = 0.75.

The question is asking given P(B), P(A|B), P(A|not B), what is P(B|A)? (If you feel that you had a good
first interview, what is the probability you will receive a second interview?)

According to Bayes’ theorem:

thus:

12, Assume event A is having the disease, and event B is testing positive. According to the information
from the question:

P(A) = 0.1%, then P(not A) is 99.9%;

P(B|A) = 99%, and 1% of the people who tested positive doesn’t have the disease, so that P(B|not A)
=1%;

What is P(A|B)?

From Bayes Theorem:

and:

plugin all the numbers:

Probability Aptitude Test Paper

1) What is the probability of getting an even number when a dice is rolled?

A. 1/5
B. 1/2
 C. 1/3
D. 1/4

2) What is the probability of getting two tails when two coins are tossed?

A. 1/3
B. 1/6
C. 1/2
D. 1/4

3) The tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random.
What is the probability that the ticket has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?

A. 9/20
B. 9/24
C. 9/27
D. 9/30

4) A box contains 2 red, 3 green, and 2 blue balls. What is the probability that none of the
balls drawn is blue?

A. 10/25
B. 10/21
C. 10/31
D. 10/21

5) In a bag, there are 8 red, 7 yellow and 6 green balls. If one ball is picked up at random,
what is the probability that it is neither red nor green?

A. 1/4
B. 1/2
C. 1/5
D. 1/3

6) What is the probability of getting a sum 5 from two throws of a dice?

A. 1/9
B. 1/8
C. 1/7
D. 1/6
7) A man throws two dice simultaneously on the floor. What is the probability of getting two
numbers whose product is even?

8) In a group of students, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. If three students are selected at
random, what is the probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected?

A. 21/46
B. 21/36
C. 21/26
D. 21/56

9) In a lottery, there are 5 prizes and 35 blanks. If a lottery is drawn at random what will be
the probability of getting a prize?

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A. 1/5
B. 1/6
C. 1/7
D. 1/8

10) A man draws two cards together from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of both
the cards being kings?

A. 1/111
B. 1/121
C. 1/221
D. 1/321

11) A man tossed two dice. What is the probability that the total score is a prime number?

A. 5/12
B. 5/14
C. 5/20
D. 5/24
12) A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a king of
heart or a queen of club?

A. 1/22
B. 1/24
C. 1/26
D. 1/28

13) A box contains 4 white, 5 red, and 6 blue balls. If three balls are drawn at random from
the box, what is the probability that all of them are blue?

A. 4/91
B. 4/81
C. 4/71
D. 4/61

14) A man draws two cards at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that
one is a spade and the other is a heart?

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A. 13/105
B. 13/102
C. 13/110
D. 13/108

15) Ram draws one card at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the
card drawn is a face card (jack, queen and king only)?

A. 3/13
B. 3/15
C. 3/17
D. 3/19

Answers
1) Answer: B

Explanation:

The sample space when a dice is rolled, S = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)

So, n (S) = 6
E is the event of getting an even number.
So, n (E) = 3

So, the probability of getting an even number P (E) =

                  =  = 3/6 = 1/2

2) Answer: D

Explanation:

The sample space when two coins are tossed = (H, H), (H, T), (T, H), (T, T)
So, n(S) = 4
The event "E" of getting two tails (T, T) = 1
So, n(E) = 1

So, the probability of getting two tails, P (E) =

                  =  = 1/4

3) Answer: A

Explanation:

The sample space, S= (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...18, 19, 20) or n(S) = 20

The event "E" of getting a multiple of 3 or 5 = (3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 5, 10, 20) or n (E) = 9

So, the probability of getting multiple of 3 or 5, P (E) =  = 9/20

4) Answer: B

Explanation:

Total number of balls = (2+3+2) = 7

Let S be the sample space.
Then, n (S) = the total number of ways of drawing two balls out of 7:
= 7C2

Let E is the event of drawing 2 balls, none of which is blue.

n (E) = number of ways of drawing 2 balls out of (2+3) balls.

= 5C2
 5) Answer: D

Explanation:

Total number of balls or sample space = 8 + 7+ 6 = 21

So, n(S) = 21
Let E is the event that ball drawn is neither red nor green or event that the ball drawn is
yellow. There are 7 yellow balls:
So, n (E) = 7

6) Answer: A

Explanation:

In two throws a dice, n (S) = 6 * 6 = 36

Let E is the event of getting a sum of five.
E = (1, 4), (4, 1), (2, 3), (3, 2)
So, n (E) = 4

So, P (E) =  = 4/36 or 1/9

7) Answer: D

Explanation:

In a simultaneous throw of the two dice, the sample space, S = 6 * 6 = 36

So, n (S) = 36

The event "E" = {(1, 2), (1, 4), (1, 6), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), (3, 2), (3, 4),
(3, 6), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (5, 2), (5, 4), (5, 6), (6, 1),
(6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6)}
So, n (E) = 27

Apply formula:

8) Answer: A

Explanation:
Let sample space = S.
n (S) = number of ways to select 3 students ( 1 girl and 2 boys) out of 25 students
= 25C3

= 2300
n (E) =  C1 * 15C2
10

=10 * 

= 1050

Apply formula:

9) Answer: D

Explanation:

n (S)= 5 + 35
        = 40
n (E)= 5

So, the probability of getting a prize, P (E) =

10) Answer: C

Explanation:

Let S be the sample space.

E is the event of getting 2 kings out of 4.

11) Answer: A

Explanation:

As per the question:

n (S) = 6*6 = 36
And, the event that the sum is a prime number:
E = {(1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 4), (1, 6), (2, 1), (2, 3), (2, 5), (3, 2), (3, 4), (4, 1), (4, 3),
(5, 2), (5, 6), (6, 1), (6, 5)}

So, n (E) = 15

12) Answer: C

Explanation:

We have, n (S) = 52
The event of getting a king of heart or a queen of club = 2
So, n (E) = 2

13) Answer: A

Explanation:

As per the question, n(S) = number of ways of drawing 3 balls out of 15

14) Answer: B

Explanation:

As per the question:

Similarly, n (E) = number of ways of drawing 1 spade out of 13 and 1 heart out of 13.
= 13C1 * 13C1
= 13*13
= 169

15) Answer: A
Explanation:

As per question: n(S) = 52 (as one card is drawn).

There are 12 face cards in a pack of 52 cards.
So, n (E) = 12

Now, the required probability,