Ashraful Sir Bank Math (Preli)

Probability
01. In a throw of coin what is the probability of getting head.
1
A. 1 B. 2 C. D. 0 Ans: C
2
02. Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is probability of getting at most one tail?
1 1 3 3
A. B. C. D. Ans: D
2 3 2 4
03. If two fair coins are flipped, what is the probability that one will come up heads and the other tails?
[Pubali Bank Ltd. (SO) 2013]
1 1 1 3
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
4 3 2 4
04. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two heads?
3 5 3 7
A. B. C. D. Ans: D
4 8 8 8
05. An Unbiased dice is tossed. Find the probability of getting a multiple of 3.
1 5 1 7
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
6 12 3 9
06. An Unbiased dice is tossed. Find the probability of getting the numbers divisible by 3 or 2.
1 2 1 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
4 3 2 5
07. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:
1 5 7 7
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
26 12 12 15
08. Two dice are rolled. The probability that the both numbers are same is:
1 5 1 7
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
6 12 4 8
09. Three dice are thrown together. Find the probability of getting a total of at least 6?
[Combined 4 Banks (Officer) 2019]
103 103 103 36
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
108 208 216 103
10. From a pack of cards the king of spade is taken out. A card is then drawn; find the probability that
the card drawn would be a king of hearts?
1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: D
52 26 13 51
11. The probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 cards will be a diamond or a king is-
2 4 1 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
13 13 13 52
12. A card is randomly drawn from a desk of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a King or
Queen? [BD House Building FC (SO) 2017; BDBL (SO) 2017]
3 2 1 4
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
13 13 13 13
13. A card is randomly drawn from a desk of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting an Ace or
King or Queen? [BD House Building FC (SO) 2017]
3 2 1 4
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
13 13 13 13
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). [Rupali Bank (SO) 2019]
1 3 3 5
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
13 13 52 52
15. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and one
is a heart is- [Janata Banka (AEO-Teller) 2019]
3 13 29 47
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
20 102 34 100
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16. There are 5 red and 3 black balls in a bag. Probability of drawing a black ball is-
[Rupali Bank Officer (Cash) 2018; Sonali Bank (SO) 2018]
5 1 3 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
8 2 8 4
17. There are 3 green, 4 orange and 5 white color bulbs in a bag. If a bulb is picked at random, what is
the probability of having either a green or a white bulb?
[BSC Combined 8 Banks (SO) 2018; Janata Bank (AEO) 2019]
2 3 4 2
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
3 4 3 5
18. There are 15 balls in a box: 8 balls are green, 4 are blue and 3 are white. Then 1 green and 1 blue
balls are taken from the box and put away. What is the probability that a blue ball is selected at
random from the box? [PKB (SEO) 2018]
3 4 3 4
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
15 15 13 13
19. Papia has 16 marbles in her pocket. She has 8 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4 blue ones. What is the
minimum number of marbles she must take out of her pocket to ensure that she has one of each
color? [Mutual Trust Bank (MTO) 2014]
A. 4 B. 8 C. 12 D. 13 Ans: D
20. In a fruit basket there are six apples and three oranges. How many fruits do you have to take to
ensure that you take at least one orange? [M.T.B.L. Officer 2013]
A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 7 Ans: D
21. 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?
3 4 1 3
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
4 7 8 7
22. The ratio of the number of the red balls, to yellow balls, to green balls in an urn is 2:3:4. What is
the probability that a ball chosen at random from the urn is red ball? [BB Asst. Director 2012]
2 5 5 2
A. B. C. D. Ans: D
7 10 9 9
23. 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 drawn is either red or green?
2 3 1 7
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
5 5 5 15
24. 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? [BB (Cash Officer) 2011]
1 3 7 8
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
3 4 19 21
25. A jar contains 13 marbles and 7 green marbles. The probability that a marble selected from the jar
at random will be green is- [Bank Asia Ltd. (MTO) 2011]
A. 0.05 B. 1.0 C. 0.35 D. 0.65 Ans: C
26. A box contains 21 balls numbered 1 to 21. A ball is drawn and then another ball s drawn without
replacement. What is the probability that both balls are even numbered?
[Rupali & Janata Bank (Officer) 2019]
2 3 8 5
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
7 14 21 21
27. In container, there are 2 green marbles and 2 red marbles. You randomly pick the marbles. What
is the probability that both of them are green? [Basic Bank (AM) 2018]
1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: D
2 3 4 6
28. 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- [PKB (EO-Cash) 2019; Combined 5 Banks (Cash) 2019]
1 2 3 2
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
22 91 22 77
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29. A box contains 4 tennis ball, 6 season balls and 8 dues balls, 3 balls are randomly drowned from the
box, what is the probability that the balls are different? [Sonali Bank (Officer-FF) 2019]
2 4 4 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
17 17 11 13
30. A box contains 5 pink, 3 green and 2 yellow balls. Three balls are picked up randomly. What is the
probability that none of the ball drawn is green? [BSC Combined exam (SO-8 Banks) 2018]
3 7 5 4
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
16 24 18 24
31. 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? [Combined 6 Banks & 2FIs (SO) 2019]
5 2 10 11
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
7 7 21 21
32. A bag contains 2 red Roses, 4 yellow Roses and 6 pink Roses. Two roses are drawn at random.
What is the probability that they are not of same color? [PKB (EO) 2019]
1 14 2 5
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
6 33 3 6
33. Find the probability of selecting a prime number from a set numbers 1 to 15 (both inclusive).
[Agrani Bank Ltd. (SO) 2013; Midland Bank (MTO) 2015]
1 3 2 7
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
15 5 5 15
34. Nine pieces of paper numbered consecutively from 1 to 9 are put into a hat. If one piece of paper is
drawn at random from the hat, what is the probability that will have an even number?
[Trust Bank (MTO) 2015]
1 2 4 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
9 9 9 2
35. Nine piece of paper numbered consecutively from 1 to 9 are put into a box. If a piece of paper is
drawn at random from the box, what is the probability that it will have a number greater than 6?
[IBA-MBA 2010-2011]
1 1 2 5
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
7 3 5 9
36. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and 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? [Pubali Bank Ltd. (Junior Officer) 2013]
A. 0.45 B. 0.4 C. 0.25 D. 0.5 Ans: A
37. In a class there are 15 students starting form roll number 1 to 15. If you randomly pick 2 students,
what is the probability that roll number of both students will be odd?
[IBA-MBA Admission Test (December 2015)]
8 3 4 2
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
15 5 15 5
38. Two integers will be randomly drawn from the sets A = [2, 3, 4, 5] and B = [4, 5, 6, 7, 8], one integer
from set A and one integer from set B. What is the probability that the sum of the two integers will
be 9? [AB Bank (MTO) 2014]
A. 0.05 B. 1.15 C. 0.20 D. 0.25 Ans: C
39. All possible three digit numbers are formed by 1, 2, 3. If one number is chosen randomly, the
probability that it would be divisible by 111 is- [Sonali Bank (SO) 2018]
2 1 1
A. 0 B. C. D. Ans: =
9 3 4
1
Note: Right Answer
9
40. What is the probability that the product of two integers (not necessarily different Integers)
randomly selected from the numbers 1 to 20, inclusive, is odd?
[Bangladesh Bank Asst. Director 2012; IFIC Bank (TSO) 2018]
1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
3 4 2 5
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41. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the
probability of getting a prize? [Janata Bank (AEO-Teller) 2019]
5 1 2 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
7 5 7 2
42. A word consists of 9 letters: 5 consonants and 4 vowels. Three letters are chosen at random. What
is the probability that more than one vowel will be selected? [PKB (EO-Cash) 2019]
13 5 17 3
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
42 42 42 14
43. 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- [Combined 4 Banks (Officer-Cash) 2018; Rupali Bank (SO) 2019]
1 21 3 1
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
5 46 25 50
44. A bag contains 30 balls numbered 1 to 30. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability
that the balls drawn contain a number which is multiple of 4 or 6 but not a multiple of both?
[Sonali Bank (SO-FF-quota) 2019]
1 1 1
A. B. C. D. None of these Ans: D
8 4 3
45. A jar contains 4 red toothpicks, 10 blue toothpicks and 6 yellow toothpicks. If there toothpicks are
removed from the bag at random and no toothpicks is returned to the bag after removal, what is
the probability that all three toothpicks will be blue? [Jamuna Bank (Pro. Officer) 2014]
1 1 3 2
A. B. C. D. Ans: D
2 8 20 19
46. A man can hit a target once in 4 shots. If he fires 4 shots in succession, what is the probability that
he will hit his target? [Al-Arafah Islami Bank (MTO) 2011]
1 81 175 144
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
256 256 256 256
47. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the
probability of getting a prize?
1 2 2 5
A. B. C. D. Ans: C
10 5 7 7
48. Three houses are available in a locality. Three persons apply for the houses. Each applies for one
house without consulting others. The probability that all the three apply for the same house is-
[Combined 4 Banks (Officer) 2019]
5 1 8 4
A. B. C. D. Ans: B
9 9 9 9
49. There are 4 women and 4 men sitting in a waiting room for job interview. If two of the applicants
are selected at random, what is the probability that both will be women?
[Exim Bank T. Officer 2015; IBA-MBA Admission Test (November 2015); BBA 2006-2007]
1 3 3 3
A. B. C. D. Ans: D
2 7 4 14
50. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. If two balls are drawn at random, what is the
probability that none of the balls drawn is blue? [Janata Bank (AEO-RC) 2017]
10 11 2 5
A. B. C. D. Ans: A
21 21 7 7